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, May 6, 2015

post 4

Harley and Ally
PA_38_ZZ913
$11,632.18
$100,743.48
$62,003.92
rank 13
Cat: $80,39/ $87/$1,322.82
Sne: $26.05/ $30.33/ $1070.52
Sbux: $48.06/$49.41/$404.76
 Those are our top 3 stocks. We are still feeling good about our portfolio. Our worst stock is Kors. Our higher stocks say that we should sell. Our lower stocks say we should hold. We should probably sell our lower stocks. WWE needs to go because that has been our lowest performer.
Timmer Gross and Aaron Mummert
PA_38_ZZ917
14.87$
100,258.66$
+50,144.20
20th
Top 3 AAN AAPL SBUX
Our Stocks are performing decent. We have sold some of them in hopes of earning more of a profit. I took my wife to lunch the other day and we are slowly building back our relationship. Apple  is one of our strongest stocks and I thank it nearly everyday for rescuing my marriage.
I would like to see apple increase. I would like to have my wife back in my house.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Week 6

Kaitlyn Smith & Jessica Dick
PA_38_ZZ907
Total Cash Balance: $10,419.04
Equity: $99,933.04
Buying Power:$60,385.56
28 of 65
Our top account is AMBA, which was $70.70 when we bought it and now is $75.40. We've gained $470 from this. Our next account is DIS, which was $107.22 at first and now is $111.03. We've gained $380.84. Following this is REGN, which was $467.75 and is now $474.17. We've gained $321.06. We are fairly satisfied with our stocks right now because our ranking has increased substantially from where it was. In the past few days we've noticed the DOW was up a lot, and we believe this is a main cause to the effect. With the DOW up much more than it was we've made more of a profit rather than lose money.  Our worst stock is KRFT with a loss of $721.60. Next is DD with a loss of $581.35 and DFT with a loss of $439.15. We are mainly only losing money on 3 stocks which is better than what we were doing. Kraft is below it's yearly target estimate and seems to be up now, but as we look back we see that we bought it for higher than the yearly target estimate. This may be a stock we might try to sell. However, we haven't been losing this much money in this stock so far. Most analysis believe we should hold on to most of our stocks. We may take a risk though, this far in the game, by selling the ones that aren't doing as well and try to buy some of our more prosperous and promising stocks. By selling the ones that are losing us money, and buying ones that we know will rise and succeed, we will feel much more comfortable towards the end of this game.