Stock Market Challenge Money Management

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Stock Market ChallengeMoney Management

• Welcome to the Stock Market Challenge! Investing
  in stocks can be an absolute blast. It can also
  be a ride on an emotional and financial roller
  coaster. Generally speaking, making money in the
  stock market is not a one shot deal! Money is
  made through a series of transactions over a long
  period of time. There will be both wins and
  losses and you need the patience and intelligence
  to make good decisions over the long haul!
  Unfortunately, this class only lasts for another
  month or so. That doesnt give us much time, does
  it? Wed better jump in then lets see who can
  make the most money before the end of the
  semester!
• Basic Parameters of the Challenge
• Each student will have 100,000 deposited into
  their Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE) account. All
  students must have their accounts created by
  Monday, December 17th, 2012. (Worth 10 points)
• Spending Deadlines
• You must invest at least 25,000 in the market by
  Friday, December 21st,, 2012. (Worth 10 points)
• You must invest at least 50,000 in the market by
  Wednesday, January 9th, 2013. (Worth 10 points)
• You must invest at least 95 of your money in the
  market by Monday, January 14th, 2013. (Worth 15
  points). Any additional funds may be left in your
  VSE account. (The good news is that the account
  is supposed to accumulate a little bit of
  interest.?)
• Each student must purchase stock in at least ten
  different stocks/funds during the course of the
  challenge. You need to diversify a bit! (Worth 10
  points).
• Students may execute as many buys and sells
  as they deem necessary. You are allowed to sell
  short well learn more about what that means
  later! ?
• Every student is responsible for completing a
  Stock Market Challenge journal. You will have to
  make one entry each week, which I will call a
  Weekly Progress Report. These entries will need
  to be at least two paragraphs long. You will use
  this space to give me the rundown on how your
  portfolio did that week. It should include a
  recap of what you bought and sold and what your
  rationale was. You can analyze your market
  performance and tell me your thoughts about what
  is going on in the game. You can also highlight
  how youre integrating new things into your
  strategy as we cover them in class. This is not
  meant to be formal writing. It can be fun and it
  can read like a story. You should explain your
  ups and downs, what you are learning, whether you
  are having fun or not etc Here are the
  approximate dates of the four weekly progress
  reports that Ill be grading
• Opening Journal Entry (5 points) Monday,
  December 17th, 2012
• Weekly Progress Report 1 (10 points) Friday,
  December 21st, 2012
• Weekly Progress Report 2 (10 points) Friday,
  January 11th , 2013