Concordia College’s High School Stock Trading Competition-Spring 2025 

Prizes: 

As a result of increased support from Concordia’s Offutt School of Business and our sponsors, we are pleased to announce that students will now be competing for $500 in cash prizes. The challenge’s top 3 student winners will be awarded as follows:

  • 1st Prize = $250 
  • 2nd Prize = $150 
  • 3rd Prize = $100 

Winners will be determined based on their overall positive portfolio performance and following the rules below.

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Official Rules:

  • The challenge is free and open to current 9–12th grade students enrolled in high schools in the FM area in the spring of 2025. 
  • Students may only register once for the Spring 2025 competition. 
  • Registration opens Monday, January 20, 2025, and closes at 11:59 PM ET on Friday, March 28, 2025. 
  • The Competition begins Monday, February 3rd, 2025, and will run through 11:59 PM ET on  April 4th  , 2025. 
  • Students will start with a virtual $1,000,000 in virtual cash. 
  • Students can trade Individual Stocks (domestic & International), ETF, & Funds. 
  • There will be a position limit enforced so students cannot invest more than 10% of their money in any one security. 
  • Day trading, short selling and buying on margin are NOT allowed 
  • To be declared a winner, participants MUST: 
    • Have a positive portfolio return of greater than their $1,000,000 beginning cash balance provided. 
    • Placed a minimum of 20 trades during the event. 
    • Must have placed trades in February, March and April. If you have not placed a trade in the aforementioned months, you cannot win.  
    • Provide a valid phone number and respond if you have been declared a winner of your acceptance within 72 hours of notification of an award. 
    • Students must agree to supplying a photo and be available for a recorded interview to be made public as the organizing committee deems appropriate. 
    • Not completing part of the requirements will disqualify you and the organizing committee shall go in descending order to award winners. 
  • StockTrak Inc. shall be the final authority with respect to winners, awards, and distribution of prizing. 
  • StockTrak’s audit team will declare the winner 7 business days after the competition ends. 

Optional Personal Finance & Financial Literacy Assignments Personal finance lessons will include: 

  • What is a Stock? 
  • What is an ETF? 
  • What is a Bond? 
  • What is a Mutual Fund? 
  • What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? 
  • What is an Income Statement? 
  • What is a Balance Sheet? 
  • Basic Investing Strategies 
  • Types of Insurance (Car, Health, Renters, Homeowner, Life) 
  • Creating a Personal Budget 
  • Buying a Car 
  • Introduction to Mortgages 
  • How do I Save to be a Millionaire (lesson on compounding) 
  • Understanding Credit and Credit Cards 
  • What is a Credit Score? 
  • Credit Reports 
  • Retirement Planning 
  • Use the Investment Return Calculator 
  • Use the Home Budgeting Calculator 
  • Spending and Savings Plans 
  • Budgeting and Spending Strategies 
  • What is Wealth? 
  • Preparing for spending shocks 
  • Good debt and bad debt 
  • Managing debt 

Additional Sponsorship Provided by:

Each year, Stock-Trak serves more than 1,000 professors and their 75,000 business school students through its flagship website: www.StockTrak.com. Additionally, more than 82 percent of the top U.S. business schools have turned to Stock-Trak to complement their finance curricula with its practical learning software in the classroom and in finance labs.