Understanding The Stock Market Is Not Something People Can Do

As a future business leader, I chose to read the book “The mind of the Market” by Michael Shermer When I first purchased this book I didn't know what to expect, I just knew that I had a series of questions from my macroeconomics, sociology, and history class that would like to explore.

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.

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.

The Stock Market Project is to teach students about how a stock market works. This will help them develop great understanding of it and could have an easier way of monitoring their money. It is important that one understands how the stock market works before they invest their money into it. While doing this project it will give a sense of experience to the students that do so. Help them comprehend what the future will bring them if they do decide to invest their money in a corporation one day.

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

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

While playing the stock market game I had to learn new skills and strategies in order to turn a profit after making a few mistakes. For example, when in the beginning stages of the game I assumed that you could only buy 200 shares of a stock as the maximum; this was due to the slid-er stopping at 200 when pulled all the way from one side to the other. This lack of knowledge on how to use the program cost me a lot of potential profit that I missed out on, as a result, I watched several YouTube videos and read over some the FAQs and forums that they had on the website. When playing the game for the majority of the time I never really researched stocks that were growing, expected to grow, or bought any, shares majority while they were cheap; for the most part I would just buy brands or company names that appeared in front of me a lot on a day to day basis (for example: Apple, Coca Cola, Dell, Microsoft, Toyota, etc.). Though this worked out sometimes with a few companies like Apple and Microsoft I lost a lot of money and profit with this lottery system like the tactic of picking out companies instead of thoroughly researching before I purchased them (probably due to the fact I wasn’t really

Going into the stock market game, my initial goal was to make enough money for a down payment for a car once I am out of college (around $4,000). To achieve this goal, my two main strategies going into this game were to invest in familiar companies so that I would better understand and foresee changes in the company 's price, and invest in companies that have had a long history of stock market consistency so that my investment isn’t likely to flop very quickly. In order to earn $4,000 dollars by the time I am out of college, I will need to earn about $500 every year until my graduation. Finally, a secondary goal is to not lose more than 50% of my initial investment and prioritize consistency over a higher predicted payout.

In this rather concise chapter the author states the gist for the next few pages which is his perception of free trade in our economy. His perception on free trade is that it “makes it possible for people to play win-win games of exchange.” The author then reflects on how the Soviet Union mistakenly made their trades win-lose, this is because they would make the house way overpriced and then force people to buy it at that price. I found this historical fact to be quite interesting considering how unlikely it sounds as well as I disagree with this system completely because of how corrupt it is. The speaker then proceeds to speak on examples of how the free trade system works in everyday life. These examples include getting a job, buying

Although, in some cases such as the terrorist attack in Paris or the China 's stock market crashed, it affected a section of stock greatly. Air France USA got completely destroyed after the ISIS attack due to all the fear. Then, Apple and other major American companies’ stocks plummeted because all of their products are being produced in China when their stock market crashed. Even though you need to calculate back and forth, watch the news and the movement of the stocks, you have to be lucky in order to pull the right trigger and sadly mine didn 't last long. I personally like this game because it lets us experience what it would be like if we put our livelihoods into those stocks. I was sweating, thinking, calculating, etc. of how can I increase my portfolio. However, it took lots of energy and time to invest. I could not even sleep at night because I felt scared that suddenly my stocks would go down and lose all the money. I was so worried that I checked my stocks every hours. Overall, it was a great game to experience but it would be more fun without the money and the essay pages. I think this game actually prepared me for the future if I decided to go in the business field and wanted to make money off of stocks. However, in real life, I would have to be a lot more aggressive because it is going to be my real money, not virtual money. Also, it is going to be my livelihood on the line too, not just essay pages. This is just the practice of the

Coming into the is assignment I knew a few things about the stock market such as when it opens and closes,to always buy low and sell high. I knew there was trading fees but this game did not include it into the trades. I had a few stocks in mind that

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.

About a year ago, I started researching how to trade. I watched webinars and read everything I could on it. A few months ago, I decided to take the leap and start trading stocks on my own. I researched

The student was instructed to create a portfolio in a website called How the Market Works; when he created the profile he joined the contest GEB 1011. Starting with $50,000 and he had to invest in the stock market. The objective of this contest was to learn How the Market Works and learn skills at investing.