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Your First Brokerage Account — Stocks, Bonds, ETFs Explained

A paper-portfolio lab for 17-year-olds with €1,000 in hand. Open a brokerage account, tour the five core asset classes (cash, government bonds, corporate bonds, individual stocks, ETFs), and build a portfolio appropriate to a 50-year horizon.

3 rounds Undergraduate English, Español

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About this simulation

A paper-portfolio lab for 17-year-olds with €1,000 in hand. Open a brokerage account, tour the five core asset classes (cash, government bonds, corporate bonds, individual stocks, ETFs), and build a portfolio appropriate to a 50-year horizon. Teaches the compounding cost of fees, the diversification principle, and the distinction between risk capacity and risk aversion.

Who it is for

An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Choose your broker
  • Account / tax wrapper
  • Pick a preset (or design your own)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • The Lab
  • €1,000 — 30-Year Real Projection

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Personal Finance.

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