A+Squared

=//**A-SQUARED :)**//= =CSD_55_ZZ894=

Anysse L. and Alissa M.
=__Initial Research:__=


 * DUMB luck

Initial Philosophy:** //We chose this profile because we have no strategy when we buy our stocks. We just look for the stocks that are gaining in value.// Most of the time we look for big name companies who have many stocks for sale. But we mainly just chose the ones that were going up the most.


 * Initial Research:**

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 * **Company Name** || **Stock Symbol (make it a hyperlink to research page)** || **Price per share when researched.** || **Briefly, why are you attracted to this stock?** || **Roughly, How many thousands of dollars to Invest? (Enter number)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Whole Foods Market Incorporated || WFMI || 200 || potential to make money || $2,394.96
 * Nike Incorporated || NKE || 100 || potential to make money || $4,134.06 ||
 * Mastercard Incorporated || MA || 100 || potential to make money || $15,637.62 ||


 * __Once Stocks Are Purchased:__ **

1. http://www.stockmarketgame.org/cgi-bin/hailogin

//2. we did!

3. For each of the companies that you choose to invest in, please give me the following://

Company #1: Whole Foods Market Incorporated (WFMI) Operates with NASDAQ Operation of natural and organic foods supermarkets Headquarters: Austin, Texas

Company #2: Nike Incorporated (NKE) Operates with NYSE Designs, develops, and markets footwear Headquarters: Beavertown, Oregon

Company #3: Mastercard Incorporated (MA) Operates with NYSE Provides transaction processing and related services to customers principally in support of their credit

4. Revisit your investment strategy and portfolio - once early-March, and once early April. Report the following:
 * 1) The stocks are doing well. Though, we have not made a major profit, we have gained some.
 * 2) Alissa and I would say that we made good choices in choosing our stocks
 * 3) Well the economy is having issues, so that takes a big toll in general. But we feel that it is a postive thing that our stocks are making profits

=__**End of Project:**__= Considering we just picked random stocks, we did pretty well for ourselves. We attempted to choose stocks that seemed to be doing well. We figured if we chose ones that were increasing, we would get more money. For the most part it worked, just not as much as we wanted it to. We were remotely happy with our results, since we just used the “dumb luck” philosophy. Although we did pretty well, there were some things we could have tried differently. We probably would’ve been better off if we had bought more stocks, but we were too scared of the risk of losing our money to try it. It would’ve helped if we knew more about each individual stock also, so we’d know how much we would lose or gain. However, most of the stocks that we looked at, but did not purchase, were doing pretty bad and kept on decreasing. That’s why we did not buy more stocks than we did.
 * 1) Complete your spreadsheet. Calculate the "Final Overall Gain/Loss"
 * 2) Make a pie chart of your holdings, based on $ invested in each stock.
 * 1) Make a pie chart of your holdings, based on $ invested in each stock.

4. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124085053048759779.html?ru=yahoo&amp;mod=yahoo_hs http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=nke

5. We learned a great deal while doing this project. This was a difficult project but it gave us a better understanding how the whole stock market works and what people go through. It’s a risky business and we can’t imagine if we had been doing it with real money. It was hard knowing how to do everything though, and what to keep track of. It was a lot of work to handle. It would’ve been much easier if we had gone over it more in class, because we felt like we had no idea what we were doing at first. It’s something yu just have to get the hang of though.