The Main Menu

 THE MAIN MENU

ACCOUNT SUMMARY provides you with a financial summary of your portfolio. Important information
such as total equity of the portfolio and buying power can be found here.
 
ACCOUNT HOLDINGS is a list of all open positions in a portfolio. It includes Long Positions (stocks
that are bought). Alabama does not offer Short Positions (stocks that are short sold). It lists the ticker, number of shares, the net cost per share (after broker fees are taken out), the current price, the current value (number of shares times current price) and the unrealized gain or loss with the percent gain or loss.
 
TRANSACTION HISTORY provides you with a list of all processed trades. You are shown the type of trade, number of shares, ticker, date, cost per share, net amount of transaction (including broker fees), and the amount of the broker fees. Other types of transactions that are included are interest paid at 2% of
cash balances, dividends paid on individual stocks (if paid during the time the stocks are held), and
interest paid on margin loans at 7%.
 
GAINS AND LOSSES is a list of all realized gains or losses from the sale of stocks. Gains (or losses) only become realized when a stock position is closed (sold).  Interest received or paid and dividends received are also considered realized gains or losses. Any stock that is still held in your portfolio will not be listed on this page; gains and losses for stocks still held in the portfolio are unrealized.
 
INVESTOR RESEARCH is a starting point for teams to research stocks, look up ticker symbols, and get
updated quotes (approximately 20 minute delay) on stocks prices.
 
ENTER A TRADE is where you complete all of your buy/sell transactions. Please note that as a security
measure, you are automatically logged out after 15 minutes of inactivity. If you should happen to be
logged out, simply return to THE STOCK MARKET GAME home page and reenter your username/id and
password.
 
PENDING TRANSATIONS consists of all trades that have not yet been processed. Trades entered before the markets close will appear in Account Holdings the next day. Trades entered after the markets close (4 pm, Eastern time) will receive the following day’s opening prices and will continue to appear in
Pending Transactions until the following day. (See Anatomy of a Real Time Trade on SMG Quick Start CD for detailed explanation of this process.)
 
TRANSACTION NOTES includes a list of all trades that were attempted, whether or not they were
executed. If not executed, an error message will appear to the right of the listing. It is important to
look in both Transaction History and Transaction Notes for a complete history of all trading activity.
 
AMERICA’S INDICES is a list of several major indices like the NASDAQ Composite Index, the NYSE
Composite Index, the S&P 500 Index, etc., and is updated during the day with an approximate 20-minute
delay.
 
NEWS UPDATE provides access to up-to-date financial industry news and announcements. Access news by clicking the News Update link on each page of the team portfolio except the Welcome page.
 
HELP pages are available in each section of the team portfolio except the Welcome page. Click the
Yellow question mark on each portfolio page for Help with that section of the portfolio.