Live mentorship
Real markets
Six months
Real markets, real mentors, and an AI trained on how your mentor thinks — built so financial fluency reaches further than it usually does. Live quotes, virtual money, six-month seasons, and a growing library of sessions. Not a stock simulator with a lesson tab bolted on.
Read the overview →What it is.
A platform, a mentor, and an AI that knows how that mentor thinks.
Real markets, virtual money.
Live quotes across US, Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo. Market and limit orders, stop-loss brackets, a full portfolio dashboard. Students trade with $1M in virtual cash over six months.
Live mentorship, on video.
Real sessions with someone who's been in the seat. The app preps the briefing; the mentor brings the perspective. Every session is recorded, so what gets taught keeps teaching.
Your philosophy, built in.
Our onboarding process teaches the AI how you think about markets. From there, every student interaction — every portfolio review, every trade question — reflects your approach. One mentor, present every day.
Where students learn.
StockArena is a daily practice in how markets actually move — and how to think through them clearly. Students trade with $1M of virtual cash over six months, build a portfolio, and watch real news shape real decisions.
Every day they work with an AI trained on their mentor's investing philosophy. It explains, prompts, and walks them through — without making the decisions for them.
Learn moreA live portfolio — $1M of virtual cash, real stocks and ETFs, real prices, six-month season
Live news and research — the same tools practitioners use, applied to their own positions
AI as a learning tool — wired into what they're actually doing. Every trade gets a contextual explainer; every week brings a lesson framed to their portfolio. The feedback loop — action, explanation, action again — is the skill that travels.
A mentor on video — live sessions with someone who's been in the seat. Recorded so what gets taught keeps teaching.
A growing library — past sessions, archetypes, glossary. Searchable for the long haul.
Live sessions. A growing library.
Six months.
Markets are your thing. StockArena gives you a structured way to share that — a small group, six months, real conversations.
Pro, retail, or somewhere in between — if you've spent time in the markets, you've got something to teach.
Live video sessions — 30 minutes, on a cadence that works for you and your group
A small group — built for relationships, not classrooms
Six-month season — defined start and end, no rolling obligation
Your perspective, not stock picks — share how you think
AI-prepped briefings — the app preps the recap and the talking points; you bring the perspective
Session recordings go into our library — your knowledge keeps teaching long after your season ends
Built to open doors.
Real markets, real mentorship, and a growing library of recorded sessions — built so financial fluency can travel beyond the rooms it usually does. Especially to the students and communities where this kind of learning has been hardest to reach.
StockArena is designed to grow through volunteer mentors who want to share what they've learned and partners who believe markets and investment thinking belong in every community. Every recorded session becomes a permanent resource — guidance that keeps teaching, season after season.
The goal: sponsored seats so any student or group can join, paired with a volunteer mentor for the season.
Every recorded session becomes a permanent resource. Past sessions stay open on the platform — guidance that keeps teaching.
Build with us.
StockArena is operating today with its founding cohort. We're opening the next chapter through partnership.
We're starting conversations with mission-aligned funders focused on financial literacy, economic mobility, and AI used responsibly in education. StockArena's AI is trained on each mentor's investing philosophy — extending one mentor's reach into daily learning, personalized feedback, and post-trade explainers, without replacing the human in the seat. Early support helps fund pilot expansion, mentor recruitment, and the engineering that brings this work to more communities.
After-school programs, charter networks, district pilots — if you have students and teachers ready to engage with markets, we want to design an early pilot together. Teacher tools and school-system integrations are on the roadmap, shaped by the partners we build with first.
Youth mentorship programs, financial literacy initiatives, communities of people ready to teach — let's talk about what a partnership could look like. Early partner pods are built collaboratively, not provisioned cold.
Where the best of StockArena lives.
Featured mentors. Standout sessions. The best of what gets taught lives here — and feeds into our growing library. Your contribution continues to teach long after your season ends.
High-performing mentors are featured with their best sessions surfaced and linked — a permanent record of the teaching, not just the result.
Every featured mentor's recordings feed directly into our growing library of financial guidance.
Our Origins.
StockArena is built and operated by BKNY Labs — a New York–based product studio whose founder has spent nearly three decades at the crossroads of design and technology, building software for educational institutions, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations. The platform is operating today with its founding cohort, and ready for the partners and communities who want to grow it.
Our origin story →Reach out.
Whether you're a foundation, a school network, a mentor who wants to teach, or anyone with students in mind — we want to hear from you.