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🎮 Wealthonauts game · Ages 10+

Trade your way through the news

Stock Market Simulator: A Stock Market Game for Kids

Buy and sell shares of fictional companies with $10,000 of virtual money and learn about price swings, dividends and diversification.

  • 🆓 Level 1 free
  • 🏆 5 levels · 15 stars
  • 🎯 Shares, risk and diversification
  • 🪙 Pretend money only

▶ Play nowUnlock all levels · $99

Stock Market Simulator game art

How to play

  1. 1You start with $1,000 of pretend cash and three fictional companies.
  2. 2Tap Buy 1 or Sell 1 to own shares.
  3. 3Press “Next week” — a news headline moves prices up or down.
  4. 4After eight weeks, see if your portfolio grew. Owning several companies spreads risk.

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Simulation only: all money, companies and prices are fictional. No real money, accounts or trading are involved, and nothing here is financial advice.

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A stock market game for kids with zero real risk

The Wealthonauts Stock Market Simulator is a free stock market game for kids and teens. Players get $10,000 of virtual money and six fictional companies in different industries. They buy shares, advance the market week by week and track gains, losses and dividends. Nothing is real, so kids can learn by trying.

Nova hosts the stock market game for kids

What kids learn

  • Owning a share means owning part of a company
  • Prices go up and down, sometimes quickly
  • Dividends are payments some companies make to shareholders
  • Diversification spreads risk across companies and sectors
  • Long-term investing usually beats panicking after a bad week

How the simulation works

Prices move randomly with a small upward drift, plus company news and market-wide events. As a result, the game cannot predict real markets, and it never uses real companies or real money.

Before playing, read What Is a Share of Stock? and explore Stock Market Station.