Pretend that you have $10,000 to invest for one week. You are to “invest” this money in stocks or
mutual funds and to track your investments through the week of 11/4/19 – 11/8/19 . Your paper should start with an introduction and end with a conclusion. This paper should be at least
1. Pick three different stocks or funds to follow.
2. You must record your “buy” price on the Monday of each allotted time period. You can sell and record your “sale” price and profit / loss at anytime during the week.
3. Write a report on why you selected the three company’s to invest in, whether there were any noteworthy company results, news events, or economic events that impacted your investments during this period (be sure show your gains or losses for the period). Please be sure to include a grid/table diagram (line graph) along with your report for each of your companies.
4. Conclude with how your investments’ performance compared with the performance of the S&P 500 index during
this period. What you have learned from this assignment? Would you have done anything differently? Would you continue to invest in the same investment long term given your short term results?
You will tracking your stocks using the following three stock market indexes:
Dow Jones Industrial Average
S&P 500 stock index
Russell 2000 index for small caps
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