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Access Rapunzl's Real-Time Stock Market Simulator Built for Students

Rapunzl provides every student with a simulated $10,000 to invest across 8,000+ real stocks and crypto with real-time pricing streamed directly from Nasdaq and Coinbase.

Rapunzl stock market simulator on a phone with a rising candlestick chart, a bull, and a coin
  1. A detective with a magnifying glass emerging from a phone, for researching companies in the Rapunzl app

    01 · DISCOVER

    Discover New Companies

    Leverage Rapunzl's discovery tools to search companies by ticker or company name, discover companies by industry, or analyze competitors head to head to identify investment opportunities.

  2. A hand holding a magnifying glass over a phone with upward trend arrows in the Rapunzl app

    02 · ANALYZE

    Analyze A Company Stock

    Rapunzl provides a comprehensive suite of investment tools to help you build your portfolio. Use Rapunzl to analyze a company by accessing interactive charts, detailed company financials, technical indicators, and key support levels.

  3. Rapunzl app showing a company's income statement with annual revenue and net income bars and its gross and net margins

    03 · RESEARCH

    Monitor Company Financial Statements

    Interactive income statements, balance sheets, and cash-flow charts, built from companies' actual SEC filings, let students judge what a business earns, owns, and owes. This integration aligns learning concepts with real-world simulations to enhance engagement and retention.

  4. A hand raising a gold trophy out of a phone amid confetti in the Rapunzl app

    04 · COMPETE

    Enter National Scholarship Competitions

    Once you've started building your simulated portfolio, enter Rapunzl's National Scholarship Competition for a chance to win! Every student is ranked based on their portfolio performance from January through April, with the top students receiving prizes in 529 accounts.

  5. Rapunzl app showing a course module with options to view articles, activities and vocab, and take a quiz

    05 · CURRICULUM

    Access Integrated Curriculum

    Rapunzl's simulator connects to 40 standards-aligned modules and 5 prebuilt courses. This curriculum is woven around different actions on the Rapunzl platform so that trading ties back to lessons on diversification, risk, and compound growth.

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A hand holding a magnifying glass over a phone with upward trend arrows in the Rapunzl app
Rapunzl app showing a company's income statement with annual revenue and net income bars and its gross and net margins
A hand raising a gold trophy out of a phone amid confetti in the Rapunzl app
Rapunzl app showing a course module with options to view articles, activities and vocab, and take a quiz

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Rapunzl provides students with real-time pricing streamed directly from NASDAQ, SEC-filing financials, and 70+ years of economic indicators that is updated monthly by the Federal Reserve.

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Dive Deeper with Advanced Functionality

Rapunzl provides students with the ability to access complex analyst tools and technical analysis to further explore the world of investing. These tools provide actionable insights around how a student can develop their portfolio, manage risk, and diversify their investments.

Backtesting a position over ten years of market history in Rapunzl
RSI and MACD technical indicators on a Rapunzl stock chart
Candlestick chart patterns explained in the Rapunzl web app
Portfolio Health diversification score ring with risk stats in the Rapunzl web app
Three stocks raced head-to-head by percent return in the Rapunzl web app

Learn Economics by Running the Economy

Rapunzl's two econ mini-games help put students in the decision-maker's seat and provide project-based learning opportunities to apply classroom learning.

  • Clay illustration of the Rapunzl tycoon character in front of the Federal Reserve

    Run the Fed

    Students set the federal funds rate through real historical scenarios — Volcker's inflation fight, 2008, the pandemic — and watch inflation and unemployment respond on a lag.

    • ~3 hours
    • Economics
  • Clay illustration of a banker character at a loan desk in Rate the Loan

    Rate the Loan

    Students start as a loan clerk and work up to bank president: reading borrowers, pricing risk, and growing a loan book that earns without blowing up.

    • ~6 hours
    • Personal Finance or Economics

Frequently Asked Questions About Rapunzl's Simulator

Yes. Rapunzl's stock market simulator is free for students, including real-time pricing and unlimited trades with no transaction fees. Teachers can start with a 30-day free trial of the simulator and Teacher Portal, with full access to lesson plans and live support while they evaluate it.

No. Every Rapunzl student invests a simulated $10,000, and no real money is ever bought or sold. The scholarship prizes are real, but the trading never is — so students get a completely risk-free way to learn investing for free.

Each Rapunzl student starts with a simulated $10,000 to invest across 8,000+ real stocks and cryptocurrencies with real-time pricing. The $10,000 is an intentional, student-realistic starting amount rather than the $100,000 default many other simulators use.

Rapunzl's pricing streams in real time from Nasdaq and Coinbase, not on the 15-minute delay most classroom simulators use. That gives students a real-world trading experience that mirrors an actual brokerage account as closely as possible.

Yes. Alongside 8,000+ real stocks, students can trade cryptocurrency at real-time prices, all with simulated money and no real funds at risk. Because the whole experience is simulated, students can study crypto's volatility and the blockchain and Web3 concepts behind it without any financial exposure.

Rapunzl's simulator and accompanying curriculum are built for students in grades 6–12. The program is available in English and Spanish with screen-reader accessibility built in, and Mandarin and Portuguese translations are in progress. If you need other languages supported in your classroom, reach out and we'll help.

Yes. Rapunzl pairs the simulator with 40 standards-aligned modules and 5 prebuilt courses, and each module ships with a teacher guide, a student presentation, activities, articles, and an assessment with an answer key. The curriculum is built on the Council for Economic Education's six pillars, and per-state standards crosswalks are available on request.

Yes. Teachers get a dashboard that tracks each student's progress and assessment scores, and grades export as CSV or XLSX along with a standards crosswalk for each lesson. The files are built to drop into whatever gradebook your school already runs.

Yes. Rapunzl complies fully with COPPA and FERPA and is already used in 500+ schools. We don't store personally identifiable information such as a student's age, location, gender, or ethnicity, and student data is handled to meet the privacy and security requirements of major school districts.

Rapunzl runs on phones, tablets, and in any web browser with no software to install, and works with most single sign-on (SSO) providers. Teachers can also set up a class by uploading a roster as a CSV or XLSX, and the platform meets the data-privacy and security requirements of major school districts.

Yes. Rapunzl is free on the Apple App Store and Google Play, and it also runs in any web browser on phones, tablets, and computers with no installation required. Students can pick up the same simulated portfolio on any device.

The SIFMA Stock Market Game gives students a $100,000 account on roughly 15–20-minute delayed data, often through shared team logins. Rapunzl gives each student their own account with a realistic simulated $10,000, live streaming prices from Nasdaq and Coinbase, cryptocurrency, a built-in 40-module curriculum, and a free national scholarship competition with $25,000+ in 529 prizes — free for students in grades 6–12.

Rapunzl hosts a national scholarship competition for middle and high school students each school year, with sign-ups available in January and prizes awarded at the end of April. Entry is free, and $25,000+ in prizes are awarded annually. Check out our scholarship page for more information.

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