Questions organizers ask first.

A stock market simulator recreates how an exchange behaves, with simulated money in place of real capital. Most are built for one person practising alone. The Trade House is built for a room: an organizer runs the market, teams trade against it live, and prices move because of what the room does.

A mock stock, or mock stock exchange, is a competition where teams trade a simulated market against each other over timed rounds, usually at a college fest, in a finance club or on a training day. The Trade House hosts the whole thing: the market, the team logins, the rounds, the news and the final ranking.

Yes. The same room that runs a fest competition runs a training session: pick the instruments that match the syllabus, keep the rounds short, and use the news feed to walk the group through a scenario. Organizers can rank every team and export the full breakdown, so the debrief can point at real decisions.

No. Every rupee in the simulation is fictional, and nothing in the platform connects to a real brokerage, exchange or payment system. Teams start with a simulated cash balance set by the organizer and trade instruments that exist only inside your event.

No. It runs entirely in the browser, on a laptop or a phone. Participants open the link you share, sign in with the credentials you gave their team, and they are trading.

Yes. Each competition room carries its own logo, colour scheme, event name and login page copy, and participants arrive through a link specific to your event, so it reads as your competition rather than ours.

You create them. Add teams one at a time, or import the whole cohort from a CSV. The import checks for duplicates within the file, clashes with existing usernames, and your room’s participant cap before it writes anything, so a bad file fails cleanly instead of half-importing.

No. That is the part most simulations get wrong. Prices move because people trade. Each order shifts the price in the direction of the trade, with the size of the move scaling against the instrument’s float and a volatility setting you control. Per-round circuit bands stop any one instrument from running away.

Not by default. The leaderboard lives in your admin console, so revealing it is a decision you make. Many organizers project it between rounds and hold it back during them. Participants can always see their own portfolio and net worth.

Yes. Each room is a genuinely separate market with its own instruments, rounds, participants and branding. Two events running simultaneously cannot see or affect each other.

Most of it, yes. You can pause a round and the clock stops where it is, suspend an instrument, override a price that has gone somewhere silly, reset a single team’s portfolio, or reset one stock and refund everyone holding it at the market price. Rounds, trades and news can all be cleared if you want to re-run from scratch.

Equities, credit-rated bonds with coupons and maturity, IPOs with a real bid book and lottery allotment, and index ETFs priced off the basket they track. You can run a room with just equities, or with all four.

A room with default instruments is ready as soon as you create it. Building a market around your own theme, with specific sectors, a bond ladder or a staged IPO, is where the time goes, and it is worth doing with us before the day.