Personal Narrative: My Perspective On The Stock Market

Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Pow Pow Pow. The gun shots cracked into the air as loud as thunder. One after another. We live day by day not knowing our end. In the blink of an eye our lives can be changed forever. Its life, yet even in knowing this we never expect tragedy to find us. We never expect it to affect our lives and the people we know and love. I’m going to share with you the day tragedy found my life.

For my stock game I invested into seven different stocks. The seven stocks I invested in were Microsoft, Boeing, Cisco Systems, the Clorox Company, 3M, Wal-Mart, and US oil. The reason I invested into these stocks was that their value was dropping or it was low so i was trying to make big gains thinking the stock prices would go up a lot. That didn't seem to be the case because i lost almost $2000. The stock that hurt me the most was my US oil stock. I bought 500 shares of it and the stock went down 23.23% so i lost a total of $1,720 on it. When i bought it i had a feeling that the price of oil was going to go up but it did the opposite and went down. Another stock that i lost money off of was Cisco systems. The stock went down 6.53% since i bought it causing me to

I remember coming home on a Monday afternoon and standing in front of the mirror in my room. Mascara and eyeliner were smeared all over my face, and my eyes were puffy. I went over to my dresser and grabbed the small pill bottle laying on top of it. I started off by taking 5. 5 turned into 10; 10 turned into 20; and before I knew it, I had taken 35 pills.

Pain, despair, loss, depression, anxiety. Those are the things that somehow made me as I am today. On October 8th I was born, a happy baby who had no idea the rough road ahead. When I was in second grade my parents got divorced. I was close to my mom so when she moved away I was lost in a whole new way. My dad had always had some anger issues but when they split it was a little more frequent. I had to move schools the next year and it was weird because I didn’t know anything about public school. I remember one day a girl walked up to me and asked if I wore mascara and I didn’t even know what that was. I didn’t know how to make friends, so I decided to be friends with the first person I met. That was a big mistake because she was just

I have learned quite some lessons since I was eight years of age. See, I grew up with immense depression, anxiety, insomnia, and minor schizophrenia. Of course, I never knew that because I always thought it was something every child went through, the twist; however, I did not have "Imaginary friends", all-though everyone described those voices as them, they were demons to me. These "demons" patronized me days in and days out. Due to these "demons" I never got to sleep which resulted in hallucinations. These hallucinations concluded with me flailing around thinking I was about to get killed or hit by an oncoming car when there was no car in either direction of me.

The year is 2007 and lt is the holidays, yet for some people, there is no joy. The housing market has crashed and with it, the value of mortgage backed securities. Many are homeless and without a job. Over the course of 2 years, 7.5 million jobs and $16 trillion were lost. Unemployment hit 10% and the Dow Jones lost half of its value. Times were tough for everyone. Then, in 2009, the USA started to pull out of the crisis. The federal reserve lowered interest rates and aided banks with $7.7 trillion dollars of emergency loans. The Great Recession has ended, but to this day, some people haven’t fully recovered.

I used to think that mental health wasn't a huge deal. I never paid too much attention to depression, because I thought it was just something that certain people went through, some more often than others. After a specific incident in my life, my eyes were opened, and my world was changed. Depression is not a phase, it's a dangerous illness.

At the time of the financial crisis in 2008 I was about 10 years old. So, I was old enough to know what was going on, but not why it was happening. My dad is self-employed, so we really experienced the repercussions of this event. My dad is in construction and is a snowplower, so the number of clients he had needed projects to be completed or driveways to be plowed severely decreased. Also at the time my mom was a stay at home mom for both of my sisters, but after the crisis occurred this would no longer be able to continue. My dad had also just bought a brand-new plow truck so now in addition to having less clients they now had a car loan they had to worry about.

Just six years ago, I convinced my mother to allow me to move to the city. New York was quite the sight to behold! I absolutely mesmerized when I first got a look at New York in all its glory. The newest Jazz music could be heard from every car that zoomed by and the electric streetlights illuminated streets throughout the night. The women’s attire was so scandalous! I quickly learned that the women who dressed in such a manner were known as ‘flappers’. However, most importantly, Wall Street was booming! I dedicated my days to making a fortune wagering the little fortune I had to start with in the stock market. Before I knew it, I was dedicating my nights to spending my newfound fortune hosting and attending lavish parties. I was proud to

This section was a very useful tool, creating my financial plan. since I have a lot of Financial obligations established at this point in my life. I have several expensive since I own two rentals and my own primary home. I also established a little bit of debt for books but I have no tuition debt establish due to my schooling. I have one credit card with a high balance that I would like to rollover to lower interest loan. Although before my illness my credit score used to be at 728 but due to my illness I filing bankruptcy. I have a low credit score and I know to establish a higher score. I will have to wait till the bankruptcy drops off my credit score in 2018.

It was a beautiful sunny Friday in the summer of 2015 in June. It was my parents and I were at our house in the country. I was riding my dirt bike, it’s a Yamaha 125cc. I was practicing doing wheelies and I went up and it started leaning to the left and the handlebars were turned and when I came down the front wheel stopped and the bike came down on my left foot and it dragged me across the grass. I yelled to my dad as I pushed the bike off my foot. I thought my foot was fine and so did my dad. My dad told me to walk it off but I couldn’t put any weight on it as soon as I tried to I went straight to the ground and my dad told me that he was going to get my mom, so I sat in the yard in pain. A little bit later both my parents came and got me and my dad picked me up and carried me to the patio and

For my personal narrative, I have to write about a hero of mine, my hero is my best friend, Kat. Kat is my hero for multiple reasons, such as making me a better person, and a happier one. She also helps me edit and draw a lot of the time, which helps because she is super good at both those things.

Chipotle started off as a great investment, but slowly began to deteriorate. With the money I received from selling my shares in Chipotle, I decided to purchase shares of Netflix, because it had been performing well. I purchased 60 shares of Netflix at $325.33 each. I also purchased 105 more stocks in Arcos Dorados Holdings because it was a great performer. A few weeks passed, and I noticed that instead of going up, my portfolio was continuing to go down. On March 22, I took note that Michael Kors stock had continuously been a “poor” performer, so I decided to sell my 279 shares for $17,434.71 total. With the money I gained from selling my shares of Michael Kors, I invested it into 8 more stocks of Amazon for $1,550.02 each. With my remaining cash, I decided to purchase 260 shares of American Eagle for $19.77 each, because it was the best performing retailer at that time. I held onto all my other existing stocks in hopes that they would reclaim themselves within the allotted time

Yes, it is crazy, to me too. Some of my friend are very excited seeing this and planned to join. But, I rather to keep my self away since it's at the sky high level now. I heard of Ether or ethereum, but I have no idea on how better if compared to BitCoin.

There is something about enjoying the morning coffee while reading an actual newspaper that is seemingly overlooked in our fast paced society today. I know I was guilty of falling into this society, until I was forced to take time out of my day to start reading through the Wall Street Journal for our Fil class. At first, it seemed like nothing more than a burden, which makes sense because this was the first time I had read the Wall Street Journal and also the first time reading the newspaper on a daily basis. As the semester went on, it became more of a relaxing routine than anything else. I learned how nice it was to catch up on current events that are usually overlooked by college students. When I’m home over breaks my parents usually have the news on at night and I’ll be able to catch some of the important events going on in the world, but when I am at school I have no time or interest in turning on the news for an hour a night.