Get started
Feature Walkthrough
How-to: Company Pages
How to: Discovery
How-to: Portfolio Holdings
How to: Activity
How to: Leaderboard
How to: Performance
How to: Challenges
How to Trade
How to: use EquitySim to improve your recruitment potential
Fixing Account Errors
My Trade is not being processed
An investment in my portfolio is showing up as $0
Stock splits, mergers + acquisitions
I can't find a specific investment
I can't sign-up
My credit card is being declined
Credit-Suisse Challenge
Recruitment Resources
Showcasing your work on EquitySim
Designing a stand-out resume
Preparing for the S+T interview
STAR Structure for Behavioural Interview Questions
Interview Prep: Tell me about yourself
Interview Prep: Pitch me an Investment Idea
Interview Practice - Partner Exercise
Interview Prep: What to wear
2022 Credit-Suisse Challenge
Case Study: 2019 Credit-Suisse Results
2022 Challenge Partner Program
Learning Materials
Introduction
What is a Stock?
How to Choose a Stock
Active Trading vs Portfolio Management
How to start testing multiple strategies
What is an ETF?
How to Choose ETFs
What is short selling?
What is a Bond?
What is an Option?
Diversification Score
What is Portfolio Management Strategy?
What is Diversification?
What is the Diversification Score?
How to Build a Basic ETF Portfolio
What are asset-classes?
What is Industry Exposure?
What is Geopolitical Exposure?
How to read impact on diversification
Sharpe Ratio
What is Volatility?
What is Return?
What is Sharpe Ratio?
How to Improve Sharpe Ratio
How do I measure risk?
What are average excess returns?
What is a good Sharpe Ratio?
Challenge Metrics
Host your own EquitySim Challenge
Instructor Integrations
Individual Assignments
Asset Allocation (Assignment 1)
Activity 1: Trading Frequency and Returns
Activity 2: ETFs and Asset Allocation
Activity 3: Creating a Long Stock Pitch
Activity 4: Shorting, Correlation, and Hedging
Activity 5: Equities — Stop and Limit Orders
Organizer On-boarding
Syllabus Integration
Can users share an account?
How do I export classroom data?
How do I delete, archive and edit my class?
Challenge Setting Types
Learning Challenge
How does EquitySim compare to other simulations?
Other FAQ
What are Trading Strategies?
What are some basic Financial Vocabulary?
Recording your Strategies and Rationales
What is EquitySim?
Can I undo a trade?
How are prices determined in the simulation?
Why didn't my trade execute immediately?
How do I exchange currency?
Why isn't my ranking showing up?
What are Public Portfolios?
How do I switch between portfolios?
How am I Graded?
Does EquitySim have sample assignments for my curriculum?
How are Options priced in the simulation?
How do I find my daily portfolio change?
How do the Portfolio Emails Work?
Is my data confidential?
How do I delete my account?
Referral Program
How our simulations reflect the real-world
What can I trade on EquitySim?
Referral Bonuses
What is a good rationale?
How to set-up your team
What are the different order types?
Which government bonds can I trade?
- All Categories
- Host your own EquitySim Challenge
- Learning Challenge
Learning Challenge
If you are asking yourself these questions:
How can I take my investment skills to the next level?
Am I ready to manage my own money?
Could I be a good fit for a career in Finance?
An EquitySim Learning Challenges can help illuminate the way.
What are Learning Challenges?
The concept of a learning challenge, is to focus on completing tasks and solving a specific metric on EquitySim. We'll track your results throughout the challenge and award badges and a certificate that validates your results.
Through the challenge you could even win scholarships or job opportunities at major financial institutions.
You'll also join other learners, and can study their strategies to improve your own. This environment will push you to new levels of learning.
Are you ready for the challenge?
Note: If you've joined EquitySim through an educational institution, you are likely already part of a learning challenge.
Achievements - Badges & Certificates
Each challenge will have its own set of rules and metrics. At the end of each learning challenge, you will gain a link to your digital portfolio that outlines your performance and all of the challenge badges you earned. Certificates verify your work and can be used on your resume, Linkedin, or shared to show your progress to your peers.
Finalist's Group - Recruitment Opportunities
Additionally, throughout each challenge, our scouts will be searching for top talent to join our Finalists group. Finalists will meet each other and will gain access to private recruitment resources. We highlight Finalists to our recruitment partners.
Note: the critical thing our scouts look for is learning potential, so don't worry if you have little or no experience in the field.
Results of our Last Challenge:
Our 2019 finalists have secured internship positions at:
Credit Suisse (7 finalists)
Morgan Stanley (3 Finalists)
JPMorgan (1 Finalist)
Goldman Sachs (1 Finalist)
Bain & Co (1 Finalist)
Costs & Sponsorships
Learning Challenges range from $40 - $120 (USD). With this price, you will gain access to Premium EquitySim features for the duration of the challenge.
Backed with funding from Credit Suisse, University Ventures, Peak Ventures, and 500 start-ups, we actively reach-out to learners and provide sponsorships to cover the costs of the challenge.
We provide sponsorship according to performance. So make sure you are showcasing your learnings in your EquitySim account.
*note: it can take many months to identify sponsorship winners.