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=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 10 – December 14.

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

You will receive the following resources:
• A unique team login and password • An individual wiki login and password

In this project, you will:
• Research various companies and economic sectors in which to invest. • 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:
• Respect Stock Market Game (SMG) rules, GUHSD technology use policy, and will use the econ wiki in an appropriate manner. • Spend as much of the $100,000 as possible. • Develop an appropriate plan for your investment strategy and maintain your portfolio. • Frequently update your team page to show what you’re learning. Grading- Work (40 points): • Meet deadlines for purchases, wiki page set-up • Maintain reflection of investment strategy • Link graphs and charts of stocks to team page • Make effective use of class time and resources

Web Resources:
WHEcon Wiki: http://whecon.wikispaces.com SMG: http://stockmarketgame.org Financial Resources: yahoo, MSN, Motley Fool, etc. Grading- Written Report (50 points):

Develop a Investment Strategy Report, which will include:
• Initial philosophy / strategy of your group • Inventory of stocks purchased, sold, for how much, and when • Bottom line: how did each stock perform for you? How much spent on costs? • Graphs showing performance of your stocks (ok to use web-generated) • Evaluation of your strategy. What worked? What did not? What would you try differently? • Identify a news article or event that may have had an impact on three of the stocks that you purchased. • Feedback on what you would suggest to improve project for future students. • Teams will submit one paper, but both are expected to contribute to wiki {Basically, if you do a good job maintaining your wiki, report will pretty much write itself!}

Key Dates:
9/26 (B7): Research stocks and stock sectors. 10/3 (B7): Set up team wiki page. 10/10 (B7): Make initial purchases on SMG 10/24 (B7): Update team wiki page. 12/7: Make final transactions for report. 12/11: Final Project Report Due 12/14: Final numbers, rankings for Incentives

Incentives (extra credit):
• 2 points for every $100 profit (15 pts. max) • Top 3 teams for each class: 5 points each • Top 25 team in SMG: 15 pts. • Top 10 team in SMG 25 pts. • Each Vanderhyde team you beat: 1 pt. (15 max)

Extra credit numbers will be based on close-of-game results on SMG evening of Dec. 14th. Teams will split extra credit
=Grading- Work (40 points):= • Meet deadlines for purchases, wiki page set-up • Maintain reflection of investment strategy • Link graphs and charts of stocks to team page • Make effective use of class time and resources

=Grading- Written Report (50 points):=

Develop a Investment Strategy Report, which will include: • Initial philosophy / strategy of your group • Inventory of stocks purchased, sold, for how much, and when • Bottom line: how did each stock perform for you? How much spent on costs? • Graphs showing performance of your stocks (ok to use web-generated) • Evaluation of your strategy. What worked? What did not? What would you try differently? • Identify a news article or event that may have had an impact on three of the stocks that you purchased. • Feedback on what you would suggest to improve project for future students. • Teams will submit one paper, but both are expected to contribute to wiki {Basically, if you do a good job maintaining your wiki, report will pretty much write itself!}