Local students compete in stock market challenge [Video]

TOLEDO, Ohio — Wall Street came to Toledo Wednesday. 

Students at Jones Leadership Academy in central Toledo learned how to make wise investments through a stock market challenge.

The students were tasked with managing a $1 million portfolio by investing in stocks and seeing how it grows over time.

Senior Lathan Fitzpatrick had a leg up on the competition. 

“I’m not a bragger, but yes, I did win it last year,” Fitzpatrick said.

He stuck with a simple strategy. 

“Teamwork. You’ve got to work together,” he said.

While the students weren’t investing real money in real stocks, they did take the competition seriously.

There are four students on a team who all played a different role, including gathering news on companies, watching the ticker and working with an investor to find promising stocks. 

Each minute of trading counted as a day, trading for a total of 60 minutes …