I Had No Investment Knowledge

When the baby says, “Do some analytics, do some research, and take charge,” he is describing the job of the novice investor. The baby is now describing that when using the E*Trade software, you are able to look at analytical charts and graphs, read news articles and research about potential stock purchases and basically to take charge of your life. E*Trade does not buy and sell stock for you; you have to do it yourself. You are in control of the future and E*Trade presents the question “What are you going to do to prepare yourself for it?”

Investing behavior should be driven by information, analysis, and self-discipline, not by emotion or ‘hunch.’

The stock market has always intrigued me and I have since been eager to learn more about it. Starting back in January of this year, I ordered three textbooks on stock trading to become more informed on the subject. After reading these books, I gained further insight on stock trading which led me to open my own brokerage account where I could buy and sell stocks. I started by playing a stock simulation which was very similar in concept to StockTrak, a program we used in this class. I found that this helped provide me with a hands on experience which helped familiarize me with stock trading and learning how to manage and use my money efficiently. I continued to play this simulation for about two months and during this time my portfolio grew about 4%, which provided me a confidence boost and motivated me to invest in my real money into the stock market. In March of 2015, I officially began trading in the stock market and I continued to learn along the way. As of now, I have roughly nine months of stock trading experience. As stated previously, I have always had in interest in the stock market, but I never acted upon it until as recently as earlier this year. My interest in the stock market was peaked because I enjoy taking risks and the stock market

In order to succeed in any business, it is extremely important to understand the stock market. In this assignment we were asked to follow the stock market continuously for four months and understand the market. The stock market is a global marketplace, where goods and services are traded in the form of equities.

Look at Warren Buffet, who is famous for investing only in companies and businesses that he understands. Certainly in the post-Madoff world, this is an important tenet. Not understanding how an investment proposes to give you a return is a big mistake. So the second key is: understanding.

Now that I know from experience on how the stock market works, I can learn from it. What I would do differently is definitely more research. If I do more research I can know more of the stock market. I could learn

Why do anything at all if you're not going to do it right? The same goes for investing. Take the time to learn all about the process. Learn how to evaluate different stocks, diversify your portfolio and take on the right amount of risk. Put in the effort and you'll see the results.

The stock market is a risky business. Investing can make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams, in which only a few investors have found the formula. Otherwise making the wrong decision

The stock market is a great way to buy part of a company & gain or loose money depending on how the company is making money buy buying a share. “The stock market is owning a small piece of the company; the stock market is owning a piece of a business” (Christie 5). Therefore, investing in the stocks is a great idea when prices are high. Furthermore, it is a hard job to keep up with everything needed to know for the job. Investors and brokers are the one who do the buying

Over the past ten weeks a group of students and I participated in the Wisconsin Stock Market Simulation. We started with one hundred thousand dollars to invest over the course of ten weeks. It was our job to determine the stocks we purchased, the amount that we spent, and the strategy to use to approach the stock market.

Watching the stock market has shifted from an interest to a hobby, to now any extra time left over from school is devoted to this before anything else. After watching that video, I did not immediately understand the impact it would have on me, but it started a chain reaction that has led me to notice how others live, and how to learn from them. The determination, to search for information to understand my interest, has led me to find out an abundance about the stock market, but even more about myself. Through this journey, I have learned how important a passion for what you choose to devote your time is, considering there will always be another willing to work harder than you. Never start a project unless you are willing to continue to the end and able to learn from the process whether you succeed or

The Stock Market is a vast and confusing setting. It has influence on many aspects of the economy like pensions, bond markets, and even retirement accounts. However, many aren 't educated about how the Stock market works, how it affects the economy, the difference between stocks versus bond and mutual funds, nor the amount of illegal activities taking part within the stock market.

There is a sense of complexity today that has led many to believe the individual investor has little chance of competing with professional brokers and investment firms. However, Malkiel states this is a major misconception as he explains in his book “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”. What does a random walk mean? The random walk means in terms of the stock market that, “short term changes in stock prices cannot be predicted”. So how does a rational investor determine which stocks to purchase to maximize returns? Chapter 1 begins by defining and determining the difference in investing and speculating. Investing defined by Malkiel is the method of “purchasing assets to gain profit in the form of reasonably

The case of the Investment Detective laid out the cash flows for us in each of eight different projects. Before doing any calculations we came up with the assumption that we could not rank the projects simply by inspecting the cash flows.

This intention of this project is to simulate a stock exchange environment for  users to learn the basics of stock exchange. This learning process can be simple, stress free, and enjoyable in a gaming environment.  This environment allows players to hone their skills through competition with other players using virtual money to  buy and sell stocks based on a real stock market. Each player can to formulate their own strategy and assess their performance through our user-friendly, web based stock exchange simulator.  Through experience, players will gain confidence in their investing abilities using a variety of stock exchange techniques, which have been implemented in our software.  We hope to make the difficult task of learning to invest in a high risk, stock exchange market an enjoyable experience.