GolfInvestors, through market simulations, offers university professors, high school and grade school teachers, and other educators at multiple levels an environment to learn more about stock market trading and investing.

Use a Simulation

To learn more about stock market trading and investing, having an encapsulating environment specifically focused on a single industry (the professional golf industry) helps educators look at trading and investing from a simple, yet different perspectives. This gives educators an edge to teach more effectively since they are able to focus succinctly on each individual topic being taught while enabling them to control the variables affecting the environment. That aspect of this tool, along with the technology being a robust system that handles difficult business logic, is what can help students learn about theories in practice while working in an interactive environment.

Example Topic: Valuation

To provide an example of a learning topic, we can look at what can be learned from 'valuation'. Using GolfInvestors, valuation deals with:

• How to value a security
• What the current market capitalization of a security is
• Find out what the underlying variables are to determine the valuation of a security
• What the volatility of the valuation of a security
• What the driving force for the volatility of the valuation
• and more...

Other stock market simulations simulate a current market rather than be a market themselves. They use companies on the NASDAQ and the NYSE to explain valuation. Explaining valuation in such an environment can be difficult for the teacher and the students as valuing a security uses various complex methods and formulas which can easily confuse students.

With GolfInvestors as a learning tool you can explain the topic of valuation, and many other trading and investing topics, in a more interactive and simpler method. The reason why you can explain trading and investing theories better with GolfInvestors is because:

• Using constraining factors to simplify the learning environment:
• One person, a professional golfer (not a complex entity with numerous people employed)
• Using revenue, not earnings (so it is not a large explanation needed in accounting terminology to explain what EBITDA, EBIT, net profit, etc. is)
• One revenue stream (golf tournaments)
• Set time period (not an unlimited life time)
• Interactive, as users can actively buy and sell while the market open; this promotes learning by doing and seeing the resulting figures in their portfolios.

Basic Understanding of a Player's Value Click on the image to the right to view a movie which provides an example of how a player is valued on GolfInvestor stock markets. In the movie, Justin Leonard is the player who's earnings is used to help explain the valuation of a player over a course of 12 months. [ view demo ] Requires Macromedia Flash plug-in Files Size: 166 KB

Multiple Markets, with Control of Configuration

Educators can run multiple markets with different configuration settings along with change the settings on each security (each golfer) and multiple robot investors, to test different theories and environments to improve the learning experience for students (as well as do further research on theories).

Access to Data and Graphs

With the data and graphs, various analyzes can be performed on historical activities of trading and investing on the markets. Having access to this data allows for a more flexible means of slicing and dicing the data to test different methods of presenting topics to students so they can learn more effectively.

With the flexibility of the GolfInvestors stock market environment, educators can simplify trading and investing so to teach grade school students. Or educators can turn up the complicity to teach high school students, university students, and working adults.

Effective Communication

To effectively communicate with a student, good teachers take their time when expressing themselves and are not in a hurry to make the student learn. Good teachers understand each student learns at their own pace. Accordingly, teachers can utilize the GolfInvestors technology and overall environment as a customizable educational amphitheater to allow students to learn at their own pace.

Next Step

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