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.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Week 5

Jessica Dick & Kaitlyn Smith
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Total Cash Balance: $10,377.26
Equity: $99,552.76
Buying Power: $60,153.64
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Top 3: REGN; Net cost: $476.75; Current: $480.08; Gained $616.56
           AMBA; Net cost: $70.70; Current $73.45; Gained $275
           AAPL; Net cost:$124.74; Current:$129.67; Gained $246.75
We are slowly starting to increase our rank and move up, but we are still not at where we were when we first started out. We are glad we are making more money on a majority of our stocks, but we have one, DD, that we are losing over a thousand dollars in. This stock is weighing us down tremendously as some of our other stocks are finally starting to give us hope. We hope that the DOW continues to stay up a majority of the time, since it seems to have a major impact on our stock performance. It seems like we bought DD at the wrong time, at a higher price than it has been. We bought this stock on accident, but were told to keep it to see what happens. We would like to see a miracle happen with this stock or at least a dramatic drop in the amount we are losing. Analysts say we should hold on to this stock. We don't know if we should continue to listen to them since we are continuously losing a drastic amount and since the yearly target estimate is lower than what we bought it at.

2 comments:

  1. We also have a stock that is really weighing our whole portfolio down. It might be a good idea if the yearly target estimate is lower than what the stock is at now to just sell it so you don't continue to lose money. We haven't sold ours yet because the yearly target estimate is really high and it just hasn't started going up yet.

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  2. We have one stock that is majorly pulling us down and the yearly target is high. It seems like the rest of your stocks are doing good so look at those to sell. If you bought it at a higher price than the target, you might want to hold on to it until it reaches the highest price you can sell it at.

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