Cal Careers: Business Analysis

The first strategy attempted by the group involved timing trades based on daily market performance and expectations. Based on our predictions, shares were bought during the early hours of trading and by mid-day, the group had a good idea what would be kept until the next day of trading and what would be sold by close. This strategy made use of daily market news and reports to help predict short term changes; little attention was paid to long term potential as the group felt the timeframe the simulation take place in was too short. This strategy, while mildly successful, was not earning large enough gains for the group's portfolio. Many of our gains would be negated by the commission the simulator charged per trade. This strategy later evolved to include larger equity purchases on Fridays before the market closed for the weekend. These

I think this is because even though many people were interested in buying from Nintendo during the holiday season but as Nintendo is not releasing as much content as the major competitors in its field people are not as interested in it. On the same idea, Best Buy was my second worst performing stock starting at $45.86 and ending at $43.03. This is very likely due to the same problem, a peak during the holiday season but a sharp drop off after that due to people having just bought large amounts of gifts and not being willing to go back to the store, leading to a post holiday

The two stocks which dropped in price are Dollar General and Public Storage. For Dollar General the reason could be competitive retail environment contributing to slow down of growth. This doesn’t seem to be permanent, as per the Investor Place contributor Dana Blankenhorn “Dollar General’s stock was a bargain as a result of its double-digit decline in price. He makes some compelling arguments why, including the fact DG is more of a department store than a dollar store serving rural communities lacking in alternatives.”

After working my last job, I came to the conclusion that I am no longer able to work in my previous career field as a Business Analyst. My medical condition prevents me from being effective in this field. With this realization, I started my exploration of other career fields that will allow me to use my education and professional experience.

One of the strongest aspects of Remington College is their ability to offer one on one teacher-student interaction and its ability to provide expert instructors that have real world experience in their field. The leadership at Remington College can produce productive work environments that facilitate a productive learning environment for its students (Polychroniou, 2009). This ability to effect an empathy environment for its employees offers the organization capacity to affect its growth by the results from the students that it serves. The college’s growth into the online higher education area can lead to success for the organization if the leadership can transform its classroom success into the online marketplace for higher education (Werry, 2002).

(YORW), Noodles & Co. (NDLS), and AbbVie Inc (ABBV). York Water Company’s stock prices were rising when I bought its stock, so I expected to make profit from that company. However, a few weeks after I bought the stock, its prices dropped down due to the company finding elevated levels of lead in drinking water in certain areas. Now they have to replace the pipelines, and conduct water tests for all their customers. Another company I assumed would do well was Noodles and Company since it was popular. However, Noodles and Company stock was affected drastically by the closing of 55 restaurants in the chain due to underperformance. Not only that, Noodles and Company had to pay three million dollars to settle a court dispute. This greatly affected its stock. Lastly, according to a website I used to determine what stocks to invest in, AbbVie Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, was expected it so well in 2017. Unfortunately, its stock prices tanked to its lowest after Trump criticized drug makers for “getting away with murder” by charging too much for medical products at a press conference. Over the 3 month span, the overall US market has been going up, however, my portfolio has not made any profits. Although I didn’t lose an extreme amount of money, I didn’t gain any

In the beginning of the semester, I had little to no knowledge of the stock market. The stock market did not interest me until this class. When you first mentioned the project, I was a little iffy on it because I found it quite boring. I did not know which company to invest in, so I just picked my favorite company. The first week of the stock market game, it started to grow on me. It was interesting seeing how good and bad a company did that week. The second week into the game, I always checked how my company did when the stock closed at 4:30pm. I’ve played the stock market game before but through the computer. I never had to keep track of everything, I just picked a company and the computer did it for me. So, this was a learning experience on basically how being a broker is. I give a lot of kudos to stock brokers because this is a lot of work and stress dealing with stocks. When doing this project, I looked in to the history of the Stock Market and the trading and investing that went into it. I also looked up the two different types of stocks there are which is, common stock and preferred stock. Even though I didn’t send you the information for the stocks, I had stocks written down in my notebook, I was keeping track of them throughout the semester. I did pretty well with them except for a couple which I lost money in. But overall as it being my first time doing it on my own and having to actually look up trends and how the stock market actually works, I did a decent job. I

While working as a research intern with Tata Institute of Social Sciences in a village in India, I undertook a study on the application of technology to bring about positive changes in the life of

Running a business can be a dangerous occupation with many different types of risk. Some of these potential hazards can destroy a business, while others can cause serious damage that can be costly and time consuming to repair. Despite the risks implicit in doing business, CEOs and/or risk management officers – no matter the size of the business, from small to corporate giant - can prepare for them if they know what they are.

The business I have chosen is Londis. Londis have a few small stores dotted around the UK, they sell all home essentials and other food and drink. The aim of the store is to provide its community’s with good value products. Londis has been a running, successful business since 1959.

After twelve weeks of tracking the three companies I chose to invest in for the Stock Market Game the time has come to see if I made the right choice in investing in these three companies. The companies I chose were Facebook (FB), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Home Depot (HD). I first invested a total of $24,977.54 and at the end of the twelve weeks I was left with $26,898. 55. In this paper I am going to talk about how I ended up with a profit of $1,921.01 and the factors that may have contributed to this gain.

The business analyst is the role I would like to play upon graduation. The business analyst acts as an essential interface between business and IT: it has not only the skills related to project management but also the ability to understand the needs of businesses to formalize analyzed as closely as possible the specifications or specifications. It identifies, analyzes, validates and documents the business needs of the organization and participates in the implementation of solutions. These solutions are based on the business requirements, organizational and operational organization. They can lead to changes in the organization or process optimization often using means related to information and communications technology.

Have you ever wondered what the next Stock Prices were going to be? Did you ever know that you could calculate these future prices? Have you heard of the Monte Carlo Simulation? The Monte Carlo Simulation is a computerized mathematical technique that allows people to account for risk in quantitative analysis and decision. It furnishes the decision-maker with a range of possible outcomes and probabilities that they will occur for any chance of action. It shows the extreme possibilities of different situations as well. The system calculates results over and over, each time using a different set of random values from the probability functions. The simulation could involve tens and thousands of recalculations before its

First, we need to go in depth and see what we need to find in order to start the simulation. Each day, the the price of an asset, such as a stock is:

For this investment simulation, cash and domestic equities were selected as part of the trading process. Fixed interest based products were omitted from the trading process. The domestic equities selected included the Australian and New Zealand Banking Corporation and biomedical research firms CSL Limited and Monash IVF Limited. Further information regarding the corporation and the trading process review will be provided in detail below. A hypothetical amount totalling $300,000 was used throughout the simulation. An overview on the psychological mindset involved with investment trading will be explored in detail