New: Trade $10,000 of Virtual Cash in Our Stock Trading Simulator

Reading about investing only gets you so far. At some point you have to feel what it’s like to hit “buy”, watch a position move against you, and decide what to do next. That’s why we built the The Global Credit Stock Trading Simulator — a free paper-trading game where the only thing at risk is your pride.

How it works

• You start with $10,000 in virtual cash. No deposit, no card, no real money — ever.
• You trade five big tech stocks: Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT).
• Prices update every 15 minutes, so there’s always a reason to come back and check your portfolio — but no pressure to stare at a screen all day.

Each stock has its own page with a price chart and a plain-English brief, so you can research before you trade — just like the real thing. Here’s Apple’s page, for example.

Missions and the leaderboard

This isn’t just a buy-and-hope toy. Five missions push you toward the habits that matter in real investing: making your first trade, diversifying across at least three stocks, keeping a seven-day trading streak, beating +5 % in a week, and knowing when to take profits.

And if you’re the competitive type, the leaderboard ranks the top 100 portfolios by total value. Bragging rights are very much real.

Why we built it

Most of what we publish is about borrowing, saving and investing wisely. But “wise” is hard to learn from articles alone. A simulator lets you make the classic beginner mistakes — panic-selling a dip, going all-in on one ticker — with virtual money instead of next month’s rent. If it teaches you one thing, let it be this: your emotions are the hardest part of investing, not the math.

Play the Stock Trading Simulator — your $10,000 is waiting.