Financial futures game
OwnerPedro Labordeinventor
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Abstract
A game which simulates the trading of financial futures and its applications. The game apparatus includes a chart which provides the necessary market information for given instruments for a 20-day playing period, plus the preceding five days, with only a portion of the chart visible to the players on any given playing day. The game apparatus also includes a holder with a display window and a pair of rollers to which the ends of the chart are affixed. The chart moves past the window when one of the rollers is turned. The window is of a size that the full chart, covering the 20 day playing period and the preceding five days, will appear in it on the last playing day.
Claims8
A game for simulating financial futures market transactions to be played by at least two players, comprising:
- (A) a chart display including fixed data representing cash market prices, futures market prices, basis, and spread of both long- and short-term financial futures instruments contracts on a daily basis, for a predetermined number of playing days plus a predetermined number of trading days prior to the start of the playing days;
- (B) means for displaying the current playing day plus all the trading day and playing days prior to the current playing day, while obscuring all future playing days on said chart;
- said displaying means comprising a holder with a display window and means for moving said chart display relative to said window, said moving means comprising a pair of rollers to which the ends of said chart are affixed, whereby said chart moves past said window when one of said rollers is turned, said window being of a size that the full chart display will appear therein on the last of said predetermined number of playing days;
- (C) means for effecting an exchange of cash;
- (D) play Treasury Bonds having a given face value and coupon rate;
- (E) play orders to emit a 90-day Certificate of Deposit for a given face amount and current rate in a given number of playing days;
- (F) record forms for each player to record his portfolio net worth on a given day, his hedging, spreading and pure speculation operations;
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- (G) means for awarding prizes to players.
A game for simulating financial futures market transactions to be played by at least two players, comprising:
- (A) a chart display including data representing cash market prices, futures market prices, basis, and spread of both long- and short-term instruments, for twenty playing days plus five trading days prior to the start of the playing days;
- (B) means for displaying the current playing day plus all the trading days and playing days prior to the current playing day, while obscuring all future playing days on said chart, said displaying means comprising a holder with a display window and means for moving said chart display relative to said window, said moving means comprising a pair of rollers to which the ends of said chart are affixed, whereby said chart moves past said window when one of said rollers is turned, said window being of a size that the full chart display will appear therein on the twentieth playing day;
- (C) means for effecting an exchange of cash;
- (D) paly Treasury Bond having a given face value and coupon rate;
- (E) play orders to emit a 90-day Certificate of Deposite for a given face amount and current rate in a given number of playing days;
- (F) record forms for each player to record his portfolio net worth on a given day, his hedging, spreading and pure speculation operations;
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- (G) means for awarding prizes to players.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.