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.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Post 6

Zach Ruggerie and Zeb Hollinger
SMG Username: PA_38_ZZ920
Total Cash Balance: $551.31
Total Portfolio Equity: $98,186.01
Buying Power: +$49,644.31
Ranking: 59 out of 65
Top 3 Account Holdings:
1. REGN
Purchase Price Per Share- $433.29
Current Price Per Share- $473.48
Unrealized Gain/Loss- +$1,607.60
2. DST
Purchase Price Per Share- $107.14
Current Price Per Share- $115.93
Unrealized Gain/Loss- +$878.92
3. MA
Purchase Price Per Share- $89.65
Current Price Per Share- $89.75
Unrealized Gain/Loss- +$14.60

I am not feeling that good about our portfolio right now. There are only a few weeks left and Actavis and Chipotle just keep going down. I am not really sure why these stocks are performing so poorly because they both have very high yearly target estimates. Luckily Regeneron and DST Systems are still doing very well.

Right now the thing I would want to see most is Actavis and Chipotle go up before the game is over. If this would happen our ranking would definitely increase dramatically. The target estimate for Actavis is about $340 and the target estimate for Chipotle is about $740. I would also like to see our good investments like Regeneron and DST Systems continue to go up.
Kaden Glatfelter, Zach Flemmene

PA_57-ZZ2956
Total Cash Balance- $50,180.53
Total Portfolio Equity- $100,779..03
Buying Power- $100,570.05
Ranking- 22
Top 3 Account Holdings
UPS: Purchase Price per share-$97,37, Current Price per share-$97.43, Unrealized Gain-$5.59
ABT: Purchase Price per share-$47.35, Current Price per share-$47.49, Unrealized Gain-$14.12

PX: Purchase Price per share-$121.71, Current Price per share-$123.59, Unrealized Gain-$282.15
Our stocks are still performing well. We still have money to spend so we are looking into more stocks to buy into. We don't have stocks gaining us a lot of money but they are making us some. We don't plan on selling any stocks yet because we think our stocks will continue to increase. 

1.Dominick Ott & David Wolfe
2.  PA_38_ZZ903
3. $34,121.00
4. $99,888.50
5.$84,065.25
6. 42 out of 65
7. Starbucks: $49.14, $50.87, $346.70 gained
     Apple: $126.23, $132.65, $963.18 gained 
    Dominos: $102.01, $110.25, $824.00
8 I feel like at this moment we are doing really well considering how bad we were last week.
Apple will continue to increase along with Starbucks so I feel like we will begin to do well.
9. I would like to see Dominos to continue to slowly increase along with our other stocks that aren't
doing well. 


Andrew and Austin pd.7/8
PA_57_ZZ2975
Total cash balance:($50,672.72)
TPE:$105,767.54
Ranked: 1
top three:
BHI:$1,794.44
HAL:$1,521.89
SLB:2,521.07

We feel great about our stocks they are doing amazing I would recommend everyone top buy those stocks. They are doing so well because people are starting to learn about them and their potential.  We have two stocks that are negative but only by hundreds while we have 3 stocks in the thousands. I would like to see more money and our stocks to rise.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Week 5

Jessica Dick & Kaitlyn Smith
PA_38_ZZ907
Total Cash Balance: $10,377.26
Equity: $99,552.76
Buying Power: $60,153.64
40 of 65
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.

Kaysie&Nicole

Kaysie & Nicole
PA_38_ZZ910
$24.559.18
$104.168.98
$76643.67
4 out of 65
1.NFLX-$418.57-$559.06-$3,512.14
2.MRO-$26.69-$30.55-$579.11
3.PNRA-$165.01-$182.69-$265.14
I feel pretty good at this point we're in forth place and still making money. I'm just not sure when to sell. We're making a lot of money from four companies all over $100, i'm just not sure when i should sell. As long as they keep making money we'll be fine but if anyone of them decides to drop we'll be in trouble again. we have one stock SAM it keeps going down. At first we were up like $300 now i can't seem to get it out of the red. I would like to see SAM and GOOG go up they're where were losing the most money. We're making a couple of dollars here and there from are other stocks i would like to see them go up and stay up.