Lion Legacy Investment Competition

The 2nd Annual Lincoln University Spring 2025 campus-wide Stock Market Challenge

Prizes

As a result of increased support from Lincoln University and our sponsors, we have been able to considerably increase the amount of cash prizing that is available to our participants. Students will now be competing for $750 in cash prizes. The challenge’s top 10 student winners will be awarded as follows:

  • 1st Prize = $300
  • 2nd Prize = $150
  • 3rd Prize = $150
  • 4 th Prize = $75
  • 5 th Prize = $75

Winners will be determined based on their overall positive portfolio performance, following the rules.  See the Official Rules Below. Click the button below to register.

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Official Rules

  • Each contestant should make at least 8 trades per week
  • Students may only invest 10% of their portfolio in any one security
  • Participants may trade US stocks and ETFs, and US mutual funds, and bonds
  • The challenge is free and open to all students currently enrolled at Lincoln University for the Fall 2025 term.
  • Students may only enter once with an active Lincoln email address and proof of enrollment if declared a winner.
  • Registration opens on Monday, February 10, 2025, and closes on Friday, February 21, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.
  • The competition begins Monday, February 24th, 2025, and will run through 03:59 PM ET on Friday, March 28th, 2025.
  • Students will start with $100,000 in virtual cash.
  • Students can trade U.S. stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds.
  • There will be a position limit enforced so students cannot invest more than 10% of their money in any one security.
  • All participants will be required to use the website’s trade journal feature to document their decisions for making their trades.
  • 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 $100,000 beginning cash balance provided.
    • Placed a minimum of 40 trades during the event.
    • Must have placed trades in February, and March. If you have not placed a trade in the aforementioned months, you cannot win.
    • Must use the Trade Journal feature to document decisions for making trades.
    • 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.
    • Provide proof of attendance at the participating school.
    • 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.

Mandatory Personal Finance & Financial Literacy Assignments
Personal Finance Lessons will include:

  • Students will need to take personal finance lessons, specific to investing, to be eligible for the prize:
  • What is a Stock?
  • What is an ETF?
  • What is a Mutual Fund?
  • What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
  • Basic investing strategies?
  • What is Wealth?
  • Use the Investment Return Calculator

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.