Kellanie

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Kellen J. Lanie S.
=__Initial Research:__=

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 *  **Team Information**
 * Advisor: Matthew Norris
 *   Team ID: CSD_41_ZZ500
 *    School: WEST HILLS HIGH
 *   Region: High School Grades 9-12
 *  Region Trade Type: REAL TIME   ||

Initial Philosophy: I chose these companys for the technology and the succsess they have had in past years.

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 * Initial Research:**


 * **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)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Toyota || TM || $84.66 || This company is making tons of money right now because people are choosing this company over others for the dependability || 17,000 ||
 * General Electric Company || GE || $21.10 || This company has many products though out the household. From refrigrators to light bulbs. and they have healthcare items. And now they have come out with the airplane engines that are hybrids. and are going to make the earth cleaner. || 34,000 ||
 * United Parcel Service || UPS || $54.53 || I chose this company because more than ever, big companies are shipping their product or whatever all over the world, And a lot of the time UPS does it. || 11,000 ||
 * MICROSOFT CP || MSFT || 22.28 || They have come out with plenty of computer programs. And just things that can help the future of technology. And they have just introduced the Zune || 6,700 ||
 * When researching your stocks, look at the following: 5-year performance, stock performance against comparable companies, Dividend Information.
 * Identify which stocks you'd like to invest in. (You don't have to use all the stocks you researched!) For each stock, please give a 2-3 sentence justification, based on some sort of performance evidence, your own thoughts, or other information that could make this a good company.
 * When researching your stocks, look at the following: 5-year performance, stock performance against comparable companies, Dividend Information.
 * Identify which stocks you'd like to invest in. (You don't have to use all the stocks you researched!) For each stock, please give a 2-3 sentence justification, based on some sort of performance evidence, your own thoughts, or other information that could make this a good company.

=__Once Stocks Are Purchased:__=

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3. Be sure to **physically print out** the confirmation page showing what stocks you purchased!

3. For each of the companies that you choose to invest in, please give me the following://
 * 1) Name of Company
 * 2) Stock Symbol
 * 3) Exchange where Stock Trades
 * 4) Brief summary of what the company does
 * 5) Location of Corporate Headquarters
 * 6) Add hyperlinks as appropriate to a news article that has some impact/implication on your company's stock performance.

4. Revisit your investment strategy and portfolio - once Mid-October, and once Mid-November. Report the following:
 * 1) How are the stocks doing?
 * 2) Any particular good or bad ones?
 * 3) How are bigger economic / current events issues impacting your stock?
 * 4) (Feel free to buy or sell stocks as needed!)

=__**End of Project:**__= --Complete your spreadsheet. Calculate the "Final Overall Gain/Loss" --Make a pie chart of your holdings, based on $ invested in each stock.
 * $87,323.40 -loss of $12,677.60 **
 * 1) Re-evaluate your initial investment philosophy. Now that the game is completed, how did it work for you? What would you have tried to do differently? How did stocks that you initially research, but did not purchase, fare? (Solid 1-paragraph assessing your strategy, 1 paragraph describing what you would try differently.)
 * 2) Please print/link and thoroughly discuss current events article for two of your companies.
 * 3) Project Reflection: What did you learn? What did you have troubles with? Anything that I can do as a teacher to make this project more helpful for you? (1 paragraph)