Contact us
- Dr Di Bu
- Department of Applied Finance
- Macquarie Business School
- E: di.bu@mq.edu.au
2023 Campus Trading Games
Invest $100,000 virtual funds without risking a cent. Compete against other students and win amazing rewards.
Your participation contributes to Macquarie University’s ‘Invest for Good’ sustainable research program.
Powered by moomoo – Australia’s first AI-powered trading platform.
Are you ready to put your trading skills to the test?
The investment world can often be intimidating with its convoluted jargon and complex terminologies, so we’re here to help you cut through all that and build investment knowledge for free.
The 2023 Campus Trading Game offers students and young investors the opportunity to learn about the stock market and how stock trading works. The trades are simulated and no real money is involved.
Participants are given $100,000 in paper credits to practice buying and selling US stocks and ETFs over the duration of one month. The goal of the trading game is for participants to maximize the return of their hypothetical portfolio; allowing you to test out different strategies or mimic the behaviour and decision-making of other successful traders.
By clicking the ‘Join Now’ button below, you agree to the Research Information Disclaimer and agree to participate in this research.
Get started
Put together a winning portfolio on the moomoo trading app, compete against your peers and stand to win up to $500 in cash coupons, free stocks and more.
- Sign up for a moomoo paper trading account by clicking the ‘Join Now’ button above, and download the moomoo app.
- Log in to the moomoo app, navigate to the ‘Discover’ tab and open ‘Papertrade’. Under ‘Papertrade’, you will find your ‘2023 Campus Trading Game’ account (this account will open right before the season starts, on 16 February at 23.59 AEST).
- Select the ‘2023 Campus Trading Game’ account and place your trades via ‘Trade’. Watch a walkthrough of how to place a paper trade.
Get rewarded for building the most profitable portfolio. You can compare your portfolio’s ranking among your peers any time during the season under ‘Leaderboard’.
Great rewards on offer
On top of helping you build investment knowledge for free, the 2023 Trading Game also offers some amazing incentives for your participation:
- $35 for all participants
- One Free Woolworths Group Share for top 20 best performing portfolio (complete at least three trades)
- $500 cash coupon for season’s top portfolio.
How the Campus Trading Games work
The 2023 Campus Trading Games will be open from 16 February, 2023 at 23.59 AEST to 20 December, 2023 at 16.59 AEST (the ‘Project Period’), and will feature three competitive seasons throughout the semester. Each season lasts for one month and participants can only join and compete in one season at a time.
Participants will invest through moomoo’s trading app, buying and selling US stocks and ETFs over the duration of one month. Throughout the trading journey, participants will be sent a collection of educational resources, including ones that contain different levels of SRI-intervention. These resources are optional, but engagement is recommended to help us understand the impact of the various interventions on investing behaviour.
Participants’ portfolio performance will be recorded, and winners rewarded at the end of each season.
The campus trading games are open, but not limited, to students from Macquarie University, The University of Sydney and The University of New South Wales. All aspiring traders and young investors are welcomed to participate.
What is moomoo?
Moomoo is a strategic partner of the 2023 Campus Trading Game and Macquarie University’s ‘Invest for Good’ Project. Moomoo powers the paper trading competition through its smart and robust AI-powered trading platform.
Backed by Futu Holdings Limited, a NASDAQ-listed fintech company (FUTU), the moomoo brand is trusted and regulated worldwide with more than 50 licenses from ASIC (Australia), MAS (Singapore), SEC (United States), SFC (Hong Kong) and more.
Learn to ‘Invest for Good’
By participating in the trading game, you’re playing a huge role in helping us better understand the way young Australians are investing while considering different US companies’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impact.
Your decisions on what stock companies you invest in, your trading frequency and other behavioural metrics contribute to our understanding of how different SRI-based interventions, or the lack thereof, affect investment outcomes.
Will companies that do good, do well?
The Macquarie University ‘Invest for Good’ project, led by Dr Di Bu, aims to investigate the obstacles that impede retail investors from engaging in impact investing and provide interventions including sustainable trading education and information disclosure to cultivate investors’ SRI trading behaviour.
Some ESG Resources to guide your trading decisions:
Future investors, show us what you’ve got!
By clicking the ‘Join Now’ button below, you agree to the Research Information Disclaimer and agree to participate in this research.
Frequently asked questions
What is Sustainable, Responsible and Impact (SRI) investing?
SRI is an investment discipline that considers environmental, social, and corporate governance criteria (also known as Environmental, Social & governance (ESG)) to generate a positive societal impact in addition to long-term competitive financial returns.
According to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), SRI investing, which is considered an effective tool for combating the climate problem, has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with the current market estimated to be worth $715 billion; however, retail investors still have limited access to the sector.
Is this project ethical?
The ethical aspects of this research project have been approved by an Ethics Committee at Macquarie University.
What if I withdraw from this research project?
Participation in this study and the trading games is entirely voluntary. You are under no obligation to participate, and if you decide to participate, you are free to withdraw at any time without having to give a reason and without consequence. If you withdraw prior to the end of the one-month trading period, you will no longer be eligible for the performance-based rewards.
If you decide to leave the research project, the researchers will not collect additional personal information from you, although personal information already collected will be retained to ensure that the results of the research project can be measured properly and to comply with law.
You should be aware that data collected up to the time you withdraw will form part of the research project results. If you do not want your data to be included, you must tell the researchers when you withdraw from the research project.
What will happen to information about me?
Confidentiality arrangements will follow Australian Law. Any identifiable information that is collected about you will remain entirely confidential and will not be disclosed without your express permission unless we are required to do so by Australian law. We will publish the results of this research and discuss these results at national and international scientific conferences however all information will be anonymised before publication. Moreover, only the researchers from both MQBS and Futu Securities (Australia) Ltd will have access to your personal information.