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.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Nicole Miller and Kaysie

username: PA_57_ZZ2974

Our total cash balance is 
$52,937.88

Our total portfolio equity is 
$100,818.88

Our buying power is +
$103,347.32

We are ranked 15/97 in the region.

Our top three account holdings are:
SLB bought for $84 per share is currently $94.28 per share and we have gained $513.91
BHI bought for $60.88 per share is currently $68.75 per share and we have gained $236.02
BHI bought for $63.24 per share is currently $68.75 per share and we have gained $275.69

I am not happy with our portfolio because HSY is costing us $307.90 and HUM is costing us $489.54. Though I am happy about SLB gaining us $513.91.

I think we will have to start selling stocks. As soon as HSY and HUM start gaining money I think we will have to sell the immediately. With the contest ending soon we will have to sell some of the stocks gaining us money before they can dip down.

Logan H & Makensey S
PA_38_ZZ905
($8,753.65)
$97,294.90
$39,893.80
58/65
CVX-102.11, 111.73, 204.73
DIS-107.53, 109.81, 227.57
CVX-110.79, 111.73, 43.02
We feel awful about our portfolio at this current time. Whatever we seem to be doing isn’t helping one bit at all. CVX is our only good stock that has been performing well the whole time we’ve been playing this game. We haven’t really heard any news on why our stocks are doing badly and don’t think anyone has the right answer. KORS is our worst performing stock and that has been down ever since we bought it. We are about to sell all our stocks and move on.

We would like to see at least half of our portfolio in the positive money but don’t think that will ever happen. We haven’t looked at what the analysts are saying because they’ve been wrong every time to this point. Once our stocks go up a bit I think we will sell them. 
Madison Walker and Tabby Bentz
PA_38_ZZ899
Total Cash Balance: $28,713.95
Total Equity: $99,535.70
Buying Power; $78,481.80
Ranking: 34 out of 65
Top Holdings:
DIS: $107.74/$109.33/+$207.22
AAPL: $127.41/$126.67/+$122.95
NVO: $54.40/$56.41/+$118.36
Our portfolio is doing alright at this time, but we thought we would be doing better after selling our one stock. Since it was up about $20 we thought that would boost us pretty good but I guess since we only had 45 shares of it because it was a very expensive stock, we didn't make that much off of it. We are still doing alright in our ranking, but since last week we dropped back about 10 spaces.
There's not much that we would change, it just depends if the DOW is up or down for the day and that moves us around. Several of of stocks have been positive almost the entire time since we bought them, but other fluctuate greatly, and we would like to see more steady stocks.
PA_57_ZZ2958
Total cash-$26,001.35
total equity-$100,686.35
Buy power positive-$76,344.52
19 out of 97
SMG per share $65.08 gaining $79.68
SAP per share $73.83 gaining $716.70
ETR per share $79.30 losing $89.51
We want our 3 share holding gaining us money instead of losing money. We are going to try buy another share so we can get our ranking up. We hope that our ranking go up, so we can get an iPad mini.