How do I enter a contest, and what does it take to win? To get started, first register a new DIYSE user account. After you verify your new account, you will log in and view our current public DIYSE contests that anyone can enter. Click on any public contest to view additional details, which include when the contest starts, how long it lasts (contests may last a single day, a week, or a month) and the entry fee for paid contests. After joining a contest, you choose the stocks that you want to include in the portfolio. You can search for any stock in the DIYSE 5000, or you can use our stock groups to quickly find high market cap, biggest gainers, or correlated stocks to your other picks. Once you are satisfied with your stock picks, you can submit your portfolio to the contest. You can make changes to your portfolio up until the start time of the contest, but after the contest starts, no changes can be made. Once the contest starts, you can view the Leaderboard to see how your portfolio compares to other contest entries. Contest results are displayed at the end of the contest, and you are able to see how your competitors performed as well as their portfolio selections.
The Online Platform for Stock Market Education
DIYSE provides a platform for students to learn how the stock market works, and to master Personal Financial Literacy skills outlined in the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.
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How it Works
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Choose a Simulation
Teachers can host stock portfolio building simulations where they decide what stocks students can choose from (maybe large cap household names only) and how long the simulation will run (daily, weekly, or monthly).
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Select Your Portfolio
Students will choose how much of their budget to allocate across their favorite stocks, using DIYSE's help tools like prepopulated templates and stock groups like biggest gainers/losers and highest/lowest correlations with the students' favorite picks.
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Track Your Results In Real Time
Once the market opens, students can see what stocks were chosen by their classmates and everyone can watch the performance of their portfolio compared to their classmates and to the broad stock market indices. Final leaderboards can be used to get students excited about improving their portfolios and their relative performance.
DIYSE Teaches Students Investing Skills to Last a Lifetime
We put everyone on an equal footing by requiring diversification, prohibiting active portfolio rebalancing during a contest, and prohibiting leverage or options trading.
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Contests
Public Contests
Private Contests
Joining Private Contests
To join a private contest, first register a new DIYSE user account. After you verify your new account, you will log in and be able to view the details of the private contest that you were invited to, and can view additional details which include when the contest starts, how long it lasts (contests may last a single day, a week, or a month) and the entry fee for paid contests.
After joining a private contest, you choose the stocks that you want to include in the portfolio. You can search for any stock in the DIYSE 5000, or you can use our stock groups to quickly find high market cap, biggest gainers, or correlated stocks to your other picks.
Once you are satisfied with your stock picks, you can submit your portfolio to the contest. You can make changes to your portfolio up until the start time of the contest, but after the contest starts, no changes can be made.
Once the contest starts, you can view the Leaderboard to see how your portfolio compares to other contest entries. Contest results are displayed at the end of the contest, and you are able to see how your competitors performed as well as their portfolio selections.
Hosting Private Contests
To host a private contest, first register a new DIYSE user account. After you verify your new account, you will log in and a button will appear in the Contest Lobby to create a private contest. As the host, you can choose the entry fee and payout structure, the start and end dates, the stock universe (the DIYSE 5000 or the DIYSE 600) and a custom name for the contest.
After creating a private contest, you will receive an email with a custom link to your private contest as well as a sample message that you can cut-and-paste to send to your friends using your email, social media or other method. When they receive the message from you, they will go to a page just like this in order to get started.