Stock Market Challenge will take place at The University of Manchester on the 27 February.  The competition is supported and hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School in partnership with Global Investor Simulations. 

Schools from across the North West will take part in the challenge, and involvs 120 Year 10 students competing on a live stock market trading floor in the Whitworth Hall.

The challenge provides students with a chance to increase their business and economic understanding, put their mathematics to the test and develop key skills such as team working, problem solving, critical thinking, analysing information and communication.

Teams have to navigate their way through fast-moving, constantly changing market conditions with the aim of maximising their investment opportunities.  The students are also challenged to think about the importance of researching company news to help make informed investment decisions.  

With all five members of each investment team working together, they are tasked with managing a fund of shares and foreign currency, with the team with the highest value fund at the close of trading scooping first place.

Teams from the participating schools will prepar for their day on the stock market using our Finance Lab and Dealing Room simulations. On the day of the challenge, staff and students from the Business School will take part as traders to recreate a real-time trading floor.

Participating schools

Audenshaw School, Alder Community High School, Fairfield High School for Girls, Harrytown Catholic High School, Hollingworth Academy, North Chadderton School, St Anne’s RC Voluntary Academy, Stretford Grammar School, St Cuthbert's RCHS, St Edmund Arrowsmith, St John Fisher Catholic High School, St Mary's Catholic High School, St Monica's RC High, St Paul's Catholic High School,  St Peter's R.C. High School, The Blue Coat School Oldham, The Radclyffe School, Thornleigh Salesian College, West Hill School.

On the trading floor