StockTrak Powers the Global Trading Center for Johnson & Wales University's School of Business
Montreal, Quebec, February 26, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Stock-Trak Inc., the leading provider of virtual stock market trading applications for the education and consumer markets, has recently launched the Global Trading Center (http://JWUGlobalTradingCenter.StockTrak.com) for the professors and students at the School of Business at Johnson & Wales University.
“The JWU Global Trading Center simulation site is a great academic tool that will enable us to expose all of our students to the global financial markets. The launch of this site represents a big step for us at Johnson & Wales University as it will support our experiential learning initiatives,” says Professor Jean Holt, Associate Professor at the School of Business. “Now all of our finance students that are taking classes that discuss equities, currencies, and/or exchange rates will be able to use this platform to get some real world experience managing a virtual portfolio to enhance their learning. “
The JWU Global Trading Center simulation site is a great academic tool that will enable us to expose all of our students to the global financial markets. The launch of this site represents a big step for us at Johnson & Wales University as it will support our experiential learning initiatives. Now all of our finance students that are taking classes that discuss equities, currencies, and/or exchange rates will be able to use this platform to get some real world experience managing a virtual portfolio to enhance their learning.
Jean Holt, Associate Professor
“We are pleased to deliver our virtual trading platform to the Global Trading Center at Johnson & Wales University,” says Mark T. Brookshire, Founder and CEO of Stock-Trak. “This platform will not only help the students better understand the concepts being taught in the classroom, but it will also give them an advantage in the job market because they will have the real-world experience that they need to get ahead.”
Stock-Trak offers a variety of virtual trading applications for both the academic and corporate markets. Stock-Trak provides university-branded virtual trading websites for larger universities with trading rooms and/or finance labs, and fully customizable applications for the banking, brokerage, and financial services industry. Stock-Trak also caters to individual investors and offers individual accounts on their site.
The StockTrak.com website is the #1 portfolio simulation for university finance classes and trading rooms. Stock-Trak is used by over 1,100 professors each year and their 70,000+ students. So far, over 30 universities have taken advantage of Stock-Trak’s university-branded virtual trading websites. Stock-Trak allows professors to customize a trading period for their class by selecting trading dates, initial cash balance, commission structure, position limits, and other trading parameters.
Founded in 1914, Johnson & Wales University is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with more than 16,000 graduate, undergraduate and online students at its four campuses in Providence, R.I.; North Miami, Fla.; Denver, Colo.; and Charlotte, N.C. An innovative educational leader, the university offers degree programs in arts and sciences, business, culinary arts, education, nutrition, hospitality, physician assistant studies, engineering and design. Its unique model integrates arts and sciences and industry-focused education with work experience and leadership opportunities, inspiring students to achieve professional success and lifelong personal growth. The university’s impact is global, with alumni from 119 countries pursuing careers worldwide.
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About Stock-Trak, Inc.
Stock-Trak Inc. is the leading provider of stock market simulations, stock market games, and stock trading contests for the high school, university, corporate and consumer markets. Our family of virtual trading and stock market education sites (StockTrak.com, HowTheMarketWorks.com, NationalSMS.com, Investing101.net, and Sanebull.com) helps hundreds of thousands of students and adults each year learn how the stock market works and become more confident in their investing decisions. Our robust virtual trading platform can also be customized to meet the needs of banks, brokerages, media companies, and other financial websites to enable them to offer their clients a virtual stock trading experience. Founded in 1990, our virtual trading platforms and websites have helped over 6,000,000 individuals learn about the markets and practice their trading skills.
Contact:
Mark Brookshire at (770) 337-7720
Web sites:
http://www.StockTrak.com
http://www.HowTheMarketWorks.com
