Virtual stock exchange at IIT-B

A newsflash, a jump in stock value and a rush of blood to the head – Jay Motani, 20 has lived through the pulsating emotions of trading on the stock market: a virtual one.

A newsflash, a jump in stock value and a rush of blood to the head – Jay Motani, 20 has lived through the pulsating emotions of trading on the stock market: a virtual one.

Motani, a third year student at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) won the virtual stock market game organised in the run up to the institute’s entrepreneurship cell (E-Cell) summit two years ago. The game was open to all the institute’s students and was so popular the server kept crashing.

This year, the E-cell will open the portals of virtual trading to participants from across the country for the first time with prizes worth Rs 1 lakh. “We saw that people from the institute really enjoyed it so we wanted to open it to everyone,” said Radhika Goel, media manager of the E-Cell. “We never formally learn about the stock market so this is a fun way for people to understand how it works.”

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This year, the game will be open for an hour every night between January 23 and 25.

There is no registration fee and participants can sign up on the E-Cell website: www.ecell.in