Stock Market Game Blog

This semester, you will be playing the Stock Market Game and managing a $100,000 investment portfolio with your partner. Each week, you will reflect on how your portfolio performed and provide your thoughts in a blog post that your teacher, classmates, and others will be able to read and respond to.


This will give you a chance to offer and ask for advice and/or warnings about certain investments, provide your reactions to market activity and news that has occurred over the week, and indicate your hopes and predictions regarding where the markets (and your specific investments in the SMG) are heading.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Ashley Caster & Dakota Deacon

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Total Cash Balance: $2,638.06
Equity: $97,892.46
Buying Power: $51,584.29
Ranked 56 of 64
Top 3: KSS $78.25  Gained $94.46
           TGT $82.07 Gained  $78.52
           ALL $71.17 Lost $5.02
We only gained money for KSS and TGT so we are only making a profit of about $172.98. We re mainly losing money on stocks. We moved up and gained some money from the DOW being up yesterday, but we are still losing money because of the DOW being down .56% today. Our weakest stock is GOOG. We are losing over $1000 from this stock. The DOW being down is making the current value per stock down by about $5.00. 

We want our weakest stock, GOOG to go up and increase in its value, like it was expected to, rather than decrease like it is. Its yearly target estimate is $604.83 and its current value is $544.11 Analysts think we should hold on to this stock and neither buy, nor sell this stock at this time. We agree with them because if the DOW was up the price would increase and could potentially increase the yearly target estimate. If this happened we would feel more confident about our portfolio and hopefully our ranking will go back up to where it was.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 1, 2015 at 2:08 PM

    You guys should definitely hold on to your Google stock for now. From the way the yearly target estimate and analyst opinion sounds it should start going up soon. Also make sure you guys are diversifying your portfolio so that if one industry takes a hit it won't lower your overall portfolio by too much.

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  2. AnonymousApril 2, 2015 at 6:35 AM

    We are in the same situation as you guys. We are losing about $1000 in a stock called DD. We were told this would be a great stock to invest in due to the expected yearly target estimate. Once the DOW decreased, our stock and ranking drastically did as well. Analysts think we should hold on to this stock as well. Even though our portfolio is diversified, we still are losing more money than we are making. We also hope and increase in the DOW will help our situation out the best.

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  3. AnonymousApril 2, 2015 at 8:47 AM

    Everyone seems to be in the same boat that their stocks aren't doing at all what they expected them to do, we are losing thousands because of that

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