Lectures explain markets. Paper-trading rewards luck. Neither shows you how a student actually decides when prices move and the pressure is on. Market Mayhem is a structured lab session that puts students in those moments — then hands you cohort reports you can teach from and assess against.
What this is — and isn't. A structured practice and assessment environment for the classroom. It is education & simulation — not investment advice, and not a prediction of real-world performance.
A student can ace every exam on efficient markets and risk-adjusted return, then freeze, chase, or panic the first time a price swings against a real decision. Lectures and paper-trading portfolios don't surface that gap — paper-trading often just rewards whoever got lucky over a semester. And when it comes time to assess decision-making itself, you're left grading P&L or essays, neither of which tells you whether a student reasons well under uncertainty.
Students play through repeatable, instructor-chosen scenarios — liquidity shocks, crowd panic, the cost of their own urgency. Every decision is scored apart from P&L, so a calm, disciplined student never ranks below a lucky one. You get a cohort report that names the behavioral patterns in the room, which becomes the basis for a discussion section, a graded reflection, or a participation rubric.
It slots into a single class period or a multi-week module, and the experience does the heavy lifting: students feel the lesson, then you have the evidence to talk about it.
From a small seminar to a full lecture section. Pilots typically run a single class or section first; we'll scope the right size with you and the package scales from there.
Reports export today as files you can attach to your gradebook or LMS. Native LMS / xAPI export is on the roadmap; tell us your platform and we'll factor it into the pilot.
It works as a single lab period or a multi-week module. Most faculty pair it with a behavioral-finance, markets, or risk unit and use the cohort report to anchor a discussion section.
Yes. Decision quality is scored apart from P&L, and per-student reports support graded reflections or participation rubrics. It measures simulation decision quality for learning — not professional certification or predictive validity.