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In the beginning of the stock market game I bought only stocks in only 5 different companies, those companies were all companies that I was familiar with. The five companies were Apple, American Eagle, Costco, Disney and Hershey. I bought Apple stock because who doesn’t think of Apple when they think of big companies with a lot of money.

This creates a budget deficit because there is more being spent than what’s being brought it.

For example, If you are selling a product that is a normal good with a high rate of competition in the market, raising the price could have negative effects on overall profits because users will simply find another substitute somewhere. Charles stated that market separation may come into play when firms realize there are differing elasticity curves for different consumers of the same product. Firms can maximize profits by evaluating consumer segments within a single market. If the firm notices different demand elasticity for different segments it may opt to engage in price discrimination to maximize profits. Charles gave Microsoft Office as an example; the same software is offered to students, casual users and business users at different price

The stock I chose was Macy’s Inc., since during the month of July they were doing great and each stock was worth $24.20, highest it’s been for the past 3 months. While having to look at the changes on the stock for almost a month, I noticed that the price per stock was lowered each day after I chose to “buy” part of the stocks. The lows aren’t too low while the highs were always above 1%.

As for my thought on investing in my company, I am pretty content with my investments in Costco. At the beginning of third quarter I invested a lot of my money into Costco. I quickly found out Costco was a inconsistant company. Some days Costco would be way up in the stock market, and other days prices would plummet. When the game reset for fourth quarter I made sure to only buy one share so that I am not losing too much in one place. Buying one share was a smart decision, because almost everyday the price plummets or

As you requested, this report outlines a publicly traded company’s information which will aide you in deciding if it’s a good investment. The topics covered are the company’s market position, growth potential, its ability to compete, its financial analysis and recent publicity. I researched and reviewed secondary research for this report.

Our biggest gainer was Telsa Income Statement with 19,362.75 dollars. On the other hand, our biggest loser was Berkshire Hathaway with 40,552.00 dollars. After doing the stock simulation game, some lessons we learned were the importance of diversification, how to think in short and long terms, and how many shares to buy in a company. It was necessary to buy multiple stocks, because if someone bought one company and it failed then they just lost all their money.

"They have an excellent management team, an excellent strategy. They communicate well with shareholders. They hold themselves to a high degree of transparency. There are other company-specific things that they do well. They have very strong margins, returns and they seem very disciplined at maintaining those margins and returns. Generally speaking that should make for a good investment."

I chose three other stocks one is Volkswagen. I chose Volkswagen because it sells my favorite car the VW beetle and the VW van. Volkswagen has all the cute cars, in my opinion. Volkswagen is my favorite car place, I will most likely get my first car there. That’s why I chose to invest in Volkswagen. I chose Google because I am always using it even now (I am typing on google drive). Also I have my email on Google accounts and I have created websites on Google sites. Google is the best site in my opinion to search on. Also Google was making a lot of money at the time and Google is the second most money making stock I invested in. The other stock that I chose to invest in is Microsoft. I chose Microsoft because it was making a lot

Playing the stock market game taught me how to invest through trading with stocks among companies. I believe that it would give me insight in the future when I’m dealing with real-life investments giving me the knowledge of buying, selling, shorting, and covering. Using actual money rather than theoretical money seems quite scary when it’s lost whenever it’s unpredictable where the money will end up. In my opinion, I think that the main purpose of the game is to demonstrate the reality of stocks and how they function. Even though the game was fake, it gave me real worries about the chances that I could have made either losing it or winning it. Although I did not win, it did give the experiences that I need for my daily life. I should instead go with my instincts

For the past month we have been doing a stock market competition. The winner of that competition gets bonus marks. Going into this simulation for the first time not knowing that much about it I felt like it was going to be hard and I may not finish where I would have to liked to. But since the competition started I felt more comfortable and got the hang of it. I planned to invest in companies that I think would do good in the future. My first two investments were in Tesla and google. I invested in these companies because I felt like these two companies would make me money. The result from looking at them the day the simulation ends I believe these two stocks really helped me in trying to place in first. Some of my market moves were good

The stocks I brought were growth stocks, values stocks, and income stock. Investing in growth stock will allow my share within the company to be more profitable, because the companies’ profits are reinvested creating a substantial amount of cash flow within the company. I brought value stock, because there are companies that I believe will be worth investing in for their long-term growth. I could diversify between different companies ranging from most popular to unpopular. Finally yet importantly income stock, which will gradually grow during my time horizon to offset inflations within my stocks. Purchasing these three types of stocks will allow me to split up my initial $100,000 fund into the industries I am going to invest in.

I do feel that my fellow classmates should consider investing in Apple. This company has provided most of my profits. Apple is a huge company worldwide and is selling products that people need and want for a while. Our society today is focused on technology and is constantly changing and upgrading. Apple is keeping up with these changes and people are buying their products. This company is growing and has been a great investment for me so far. This is a stock choice I would suggest others to look at and invest in. Starbucks has also grown over the past few weeks, which is why I would suggest investing in this stock as well, but for Wal-Mart, it has not grown as much as I had thought. It is growing slowly, but I would suggest the other two stocks before this one. These stock choices

Determining whether to invest in John Deere or not is not a simple decision as the numbers do not point to a clear answer. They also are only one point of analysis when looking at the industry or the stock market as a whole. John Deere is ranked second in its industry, behind Caterpillar. (Fortune, 2014) This may to seem to indicate that investing in Caterpillar would be a better decision but while John Deere’s sales were only up 4.5%, Caterpillar’s were down 15.5% from the previous year. (Fortune, 2014) Navistar International Corp is another competitor that has been struggling with the current state of the Industrial Equipment industry. They have seen their stock price drop by about a third in the last year. ("Navistar International Corp (NAV:New York)," 2015) Now does this mean that an investment in John Deere is a wise one? Considering the reduction in