What was it? Stock market "game" for real money around 1998-2001?

September 4, 2018 8:14 AM

There was a web-based stock market simulator game online in the late 1990s that sold fake shares for real money. It got shut down pretty hard. I can't rememberer the name or anything else to give me a line on finding information about it. I think it appeared in a law school case book for corporate finance in the early 2000s. Ring any bells?
posted by GPF to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: Stock Generation?
posted by hankscorpio83 at 8:32 AM on September 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I think it was related to the funds managed by Marketocracy.
posted by straw at 1:00 PM on September 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: It sure sounds like Stock Generation. I thought the site worked by paying real money for a fake share of a real company. So, one could "buy," say, IBM stock and your "investment" would track actual share prices. But - so many other details match up, this could be it. Thanks!
posted by GPF at 3:48 PM on September 6, 2018