Twelve lessons in which a room full of sheenbot boards turns into a working stock exchange. One board broadcasts the price. The rest trade against it — and the price moves because your students moved it.
New pilot course · Now bookingEvery lesson carries exactly one money idea and one coding idea. Nothing is simulated on a worksheet — every price, every order and every loss happens on hardware the students are holding.
A wallet you can press. A budget that must add up to 100. A price that refuses to sit still. By lesson 4 they hold a position, watch it lose money, and meet the rule that saves them from themselves.
One board · no network
Boards talk to each other by radio. One becomes the exchange; everyone else sends buy and sell orders back, and the price moves on the imbalance. Then they discover the spread — the fee you pay for being in a hurry.
Board-to-board radio · still offline
The boards join WiFi and subscribe to a live feed the teacher controls. Compounding, diversification, drawdown — then twenty-five equity curves race each other on the class dashboard.
WiFi · live feed · class dashboard
The capstone is not scored on profit. It is scored on profit divided by the worst drop along the way — and the benchmark is doing nothing at all. These are the real figures from one Market Day.
| Buy & hold | Trading hard | |
|---|---|---|
| Trades placed | 1 | 13 |
| Paid in spread | R10.30 | R163.85 |
| Finished on | R1 171.27 | R853.20 |
| Worst drop | 19.1% | 30.5% |
| Risk-adjusted score | +8.97 | −4.81 |
Thirteen trades cost R163.85 in spread alone. Students discover for themselves why most active investors lose to a fund that simply sits still — a fact they will meet again the first time an app congratulates them for trading.
Students write their trading rules on paper before they write a single block. Then the market opens, and the teacher decides what happens to it.
The feed opens. Every board subscribes, every equity curve starts flat on the class dashboard.
Crash. The teacher presses one key. The price falls a third. Stop-losses fire across the room, and the students who wrote no rule find out what they do under pressure.
Rally. The recovery arrives — and everyone who panicked is sitting in cash, watching it happen without them.
The market closes. Scores are read out on risk-adjusted return, and the loudest trader in the room is usually not the winner.
We run the first Market Day with your teacher, supply the boards, and leave the course in your LMS. Parts 1 and 2 need no internet at all — a room, the boards, and one teacher willing to crash the market on purpose.
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