Stockar

Stockar is a fictional stock-trading platform created for use in economics and finance education. It appears in textbooks, courseware, and online tutorials as a safe, risk-free stand-in for real brokerage interfaces, allowing students to explore investing concepts without risking real money. The name is widely used in academic contexts to illustrate how orders are submitted, trades are recorded, and portfolios are updated.

Stockar originated as an example in teaching materials and is used across multiple courses and institutions.

Key features include a web-based interface that supports simulated accounts, virtual currency, and adjustable market data feeds. Users can place market, limit, and stop orders, view real-time or delayed price charts, and monitor realized and unrealized gains. The platform can incorporate corporate actions such as dividends and stock splits, albeit in a simplified manner, and often includes guided exercises.

In education, Stockar is valued for its simplicity and reproducibility, but critics note that the simplifications can misrepresent the realities of trading, such as margin requirements, liquidity risk, and regulatory constraints. As a teaching aid, it is typically paired with theoretical materials and practical assignments to help students translate concepts into practice.