Stock Market for Life: A Guide to Winning the Stock Market Game in Class and in Real Life for Students, Teachers, and Parents

Stock Market for Life is a short and easy to understand guide to investing based on ten years of teaching the Stock Market Game. The worksheets have helped hundreds of students grasp fundamental evaluation metrics such as Price to Earnings, Revenue and Net Income Growth, Return on Equity, net margins, and Price to Book. Mutual Funds, ETFs and bonds are also covered as well as shorting a stock and technical analysis. Although originally created for classroom use with middle school students, the background information, worksheets (with answer key), and checklists are designed to be a self-guided starting point to investing for investors of any age. The lessons begin with the assumption that the reader doesn't even know what a stock is; however, the concepts covered are varied and detailed enough for intermediate investors to enhance their overall understanding of investing.

Joey DeStefanis has been a teacher for over two decades, teaching every grade from third to twelfth. He specializes in teaching financial literacy and has sponsored investing clubs for the past decade. His students were the SIFMA Foundation Maryland State Stock Market Game champions for the fall of 2014. Over the years his teams have won several regional titles as well as three InvestWrite Maryland State first place finishes. Seeing a lack of material for teaching students about stocks, he began to create his own worksheets and tests and eventually started organizing a complete course in investing. The methods for evaluating stocks found in Stock Market for Life have been used to successfully teach hundreds of students the fundamentals of evaluating stocks and mutual funds. In addition to his passion for teaching financial literacy, he has earned two Master’s degrees and traveled to thirty countries.