Virtual Stock Exchange Project
You will be participating in a virtual stock exchange! You will be buying and selling stock over the next 4 modules and analyzing the fluctuation in the value of your stock portfolio.
Constraints
You will be “given” $500,000 in fictional funds.
Each position you take in an asset must be a minimum of 5% of your assets and a maximum of 10% of your assets.
Cash must not exceed 20% of your portfolio at any time. We want you invested, not sitting on the sidelines.
Resources
Resources that you may find to be particularly valuable for your research include:
MarketWatch: http://www.marketwatch.com/
Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
Yahoo Finance: finance.yahoo.com
Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield
Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com
SLP Assignment
Make 3 stock purchases and provide information about the purchases
Please download the Module 2 SLP template. You will type your answer into this Excel workbook. When finished with the SLP assignment, please save the document with your last name and submit to the dropbox.
Purchase 4: Assume you are a very risk averse investor (you don’t like risk). Buy at least $10,000 worth of a company’s stock that is appropriate given your risk preference.
Purchase 5: Assume you are a very risk loving investor (you LOVE risk). Buy at least $10,000 worth of a company’s stock that is appropriate given your risk preference.
Purchase 6: Assume you are an investor willing to accept average market risk (the Beta of the stock should be around 1). Buy at least $10,000 worth of a company’s stock that is appropriate given your risk preference.
You are free to make additional purchases, but you only need to explain the reasoning behind your required purchases 4 through 6.
You will need to include the following information for each stock in this workbook:
Company Name
Ticker Symbol
Reason for Buying
Current Price
Previous Close Price
52-week High
52-week Low
Beta
Market Cap
P/E Ratio
SLP Assignment Expectations
Answer the assignment questions directly.
Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
**************Log In*************
user name: ***********************
password: Mykids*14
MarketWatch Game Name: Wolveswallstreet
Password: password1
MarketWatch link: https://www.marketwatch.com/games/wolveswallstreet
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