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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Vic Glassley who wrote (12436)12/12/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: Mazman  Read Replies (2) of 13594
 
Vic,

Ameritrade is offering a free video game on how to trade options. I just went to their web site at darwin.ameritrade.com and ordered one. Found out about this in a small article in Friday's Investor's Business Daily.

regards,
mazman

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(Full story from IBD)

Online broker Ameritrade Holding Corp. recently developed a video game that teaches users how to trade options. Anyone can get a free copy of the game - called ''Darwin: Survival of the Fittest'' - mailed to them by ordering a copy on Ameritrade's Web site. Darwin has two parts. The first is a textbook-type tutorial that teaches users the theory of options. It has video clips of animated stock market traders, complete with thick New York accents, who coach the user. Quizzes are given by the software at the end of the beginner, intermediate and advanced courses. Once the user masters the basics, it's off to the trading floor. Darwin creates a simulation of an actual four-week trading session. Users can place stock and option orders on an animated stock market floor. It even has a make-believe stock ticker. Darwin issues simulated news stories on the stocks. It lets users study stock charts and options tables and monitor the swinging value of their portfolios. All the while, animated traders whisper rumors about the stocks. The game is intended to be a teaching tool. Users can play by themselves and practice things like figuring out the time value of their options. It also can be competitive. Any two people with Darwin can play each other either over the Internet or on a company network.
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