Stock+Market+Game+Assignment

 Stock Market Game Project
 * **The Assignment:**

You will be participating in a regional stock simulation. You will be competing against teams from other schools in Southern California.

Each team will receive $100,000 to invest. You may invest in any stock that trades on the NYSE, AMEX, or NASDAQ. Stocks, though, must be $5.00 per share or higher to purchase.

The game will run from October 6 - December 12.

Teams will be **no larger than two (2) people.**

You will receive the following resources: * A unique team login and password  In this project, you will: * Research various companies and economic sectors in which to invest. * Respect Stock Market Game (SMG) rules, GUHSD technology use policy, and will use the econ wiki in an appropriate manner. * Meet deadlines for purchases, wiki page set-up as posted on wiki page WHEcon Wiki: __http://whecon.wikispaces.com__ SMG: __[|http://stockmarketgame.org]__ Financial Resources: yahoo, MSN, Motley Fool, etc. || **Grading- Written Report (50 points):**
 * An individual wiki login and password
 * Make purchases and monitor your portfolio online.
 * Keep a team page on the //whecon// wiki, and update it frequently.
 * Develop a final report of your investment, success/failure of your strategy, and tie in current events to your stock holdings. || **You are expected to:**
 * Spend as much of the $100,000 as possible.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Develop an appropriate plan for your investment strategy and maintain your portfolio.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Frequently update your team page to show what you’re learning. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">**Grading- Work (50 points):**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Maintain reflection of investment strategy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Link graphs and charts of stocks to team page
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Make effective use of class time and resources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Complete Assignments that you are given ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">**Web Resources:**

Develop a Investment Strategy Report, which will include: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Initial philosophy / strategy of your group <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">//{Basically, if you do a good job maintaining your wiki, report will pretty much write itself!}// || 9/23 (B7): Set up team wiki page and Google Accounts. Begin to identify companies 9/30 (B7): Stock Research and Linkds 10/7 (B7): Purchase Stocks 10/14 (B7): Complete Summary Sheets 12/10: Make final transactions for report. __12/15: **Final Project Report Due**__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> 12/12: Final numbers, rankings for **Incentives** ||^  || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">2 points for every $100 profit (15 pts. max) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">//-Extra credit numbers will be based on close-of-game results on SMG evening of December 12th.// //-Teams will __split__ extra credit// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif"> ||^  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Inventory of stocks purchased, sold and overall performance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Graphs showing performance of your stocks (ok to use web-generated)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">General research on the companies you invested in
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Evaluation of your strategy. What worked? What did not? What would you try differently?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Identify a news article or event that may have had an impact on **two** of the stocks that you purchased.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Feedback on what you would suggest to improve project for future students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Teams will submit one paper, but both are expected to contribute to wiki
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">**Key Dates:**
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">**Incentives (extra credit):**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Top 3 teams for each class: 5 points each
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Top 25 team in SMG: 15 pts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Top 10 team in SMG 25 pts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Each Vanderhyde team you beat: 1 pt. (15 max)