Project Report on Comparison of Stock Market with Other Investment Option

Portfolio management is an important factor that determines the performance of the portfolio. To perform well in the portfolio, it is not only essential to develop personal investment strategies, but analyzing current financial trend is also vital. Stock Trak is an online portfolio simulation that allows students to try out different investment strategies, and also get a hand on experience in what the real market trading conditions are. By managing the portfolio, I have acquired some new knowledge of investment strategies and also become more familiar with the current market by following closely to the financial headlines.

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Throughout the past century, many have invested in the stock market with the hopes of making a profit. Going into this project, I was not very familiar with the stock market and how it works. Initially, I had known that the stock market was quite risky; however, I also recognized the fact that there is great potential to make a significant profit. I decided to invest in stocks that I thought would earn me the most money the fastest. I decided to use this tactic because I knew in advance that I had a deadline for this project, and I wanted to maximize my profits to my full potential. To my surprise, the companies that I had thought would do well did not perform as well as anticipated. I feel that part of the reason for this was because I

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We worked together on their finance stock market project. We felt that our risk tolerance was different then it normally would be sense we had 500,000 to invest in the stock market compared to our own money. Due to the fact that this was fake money we found ourselves to be conservative as well as risky depending on the situation. We have been given three months to invest money in the stock market as well as with different types of investments such as shorting, limiting, etc and to come out with a positive return. Our strategy was to be in the top tier percentage in the class. We wanted to find stocks that would be unique and not as commonly owned compared to other students in the class. We focused

Shares of the various East India companies were issued on paper, which allowed investors to sell to other investors. However, in order to be able to buy stocks, an

For the month of December, I was given an assignment consisting of $100,000 and four stocks to invest in. My four stocks were The Ralph Lauren Corp., Visa Inc., Master card Inc. and The Chevron Corp. As stated I was given a month to record my data and I ended up with a total capital gain of $5,518.36 for the one month period for my investments. I have to thank you Mr. Acker, this project was not difficult, but it did confuse me. Receiving this assignment scared me in a way, because I didn’t know what I was getting into. The finance world is scary and tricky, one minute the market is doing good and other days it would be low. While calculating my capital gains or losses I thought I would lose a larger

The stock market game was interesting to me because I never knew anything about stocks. I struggled in making trades in the beginning of the game because I didn’t understand how to properly trade nor understood how money could be earned or lost. As time went by, I started to learn how to trade more appropriately to either gain some or lose just a slight amount. I found myself constantly depending on certain stocks rather than going for a variety like others seemed to do. I would only trade one thing at a time unlike everyone else as well because that’s what I felt comfortable with. However, I realized that sometimes to gain a great amount, I have to go out of my comfort zone and just take a risk; although, I still didn’t do it. The idea of having essay pages written actually motivated and pressured me at the same time for me to play it safe. I didn’t necessarily aim for being the top three nor did I focus on having no essay pages written but rather, I wanted to have a minimal amount of pages to write and I suppose I did succeed in that goal. The first few trades that I made started off being low-priced because I was too afraid of losing money which would result in me writing more essay pages and I did not want that. I focused on one stock called VisionChina Media Inc. (VISN) because it was the lowest price that qualified for the five dollar minimum for the stock market game. At this time, I still didn’t understand how to

An investment also known as a security is a pledge of money from an individual, government, or cooperation that is expected to accrue additional wealth on top of its original dollar amount. An investment can be a long-term or short-term obligation depending on the investor’s goals and/or assets they choose to invest in. The investment decision process is a two-step process which is necessary to make a sound trustable and efficient investment. The first step involves an evaluation of the investment you as the investor are interested in committing money towards, including characteristics of the security (i.e. how it acts in the current market, how the current/future market may react to this investment and possible returns on your investment). Finally, the management of your investment portfolio, including how often it should be revised, how the performance of your securities should be measured (how often they should be measured), and other important aspects of your current investments. Investing revolves around one basic concept, improving our future, investors invest money today to improve their welfare in the future which is why understanding what an investment is and the process of decision making before investing is extremely important.

Apart from references of other people’s work which were fully acknowledged, I hereby certify that this research work was wholly done by me under the guidance of my supervisor, Mallam Sani Gurowa of Department of Accounting, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria.

Learner name  Group 6  Date issue  Completion date  10.02.2013  06.04.2013  Qualification  Pre‐Master Course (Business Studies)

In the partial fulfillment of the requirement of Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Program (2002-2004) Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan.

A Report Submitted In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Degree Of Bachelor Of Business Administration

This is to certify that ANKUR NARANG a student of IMT – CDL Ghaziabad has completed project work on titled “IMPACT OF DIGITAL MARKETING OR E-COMMERCE IN CURRENT BUSINESS SCENARIO:- A CASE STUDY OF TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES” under my guidance and supervision.