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[H]Stock Market Game?

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Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-15 10:14:50
March 13 2009 02:01 GMT
#1
This is for a project in economics. I start with $100,000 to invest in at least three stocks listed on NYSE or NASDAQ. No shorting stocks, no day trading.

As I'm totally clueless as to how the market's doing (and how it works in general), which stocks should I buy (and why)?

EDIT: Poem I wrote for English (on Crime and Punishment). Doesn't really belong here but I figure I'll take up some space because the OP's kind of shit... (hopefully this helps in respect to overall shitiness...?)

There lived an old hag and her life was so grim.
She stole people’s money – they cried at her whim.
But I paid her flat tax
And then fashioned an axe
So now her life’s prospect is rather quite dim!

I start to her house – it’s now past six-o’-clock.
I tap at the door and she opens the lock.
Without much ado,
I slice her in two
And give her poor sister (as well) a good knock.

But what of the clothes, all bloodied and stained!
And all her grand jewelry I gladly obtained?
Both gold and my sock
Are now under a rock.
I guess you could say that my conscience is strained.

And hark, the police are now questioning me,
Invading my mind and my own privacy
(A bothersome lot).
My mind’s all I’ve got
But they tear me apart from my poor sanity.

And plus there’s a chap whom my sister will wed
Who really just wants to get with her in bed.
But just hear him speak
And their future looks bleak
(And my friend kindly offered to bash in his head).

Some mad crazy people I happen to seek
A little whore-girl and a child-loving freak.
Of the nonce I distress,
To the girl I confess
Of my rabid and axe-wielding murderous streak.

And to the police I reluctantly go
I walk in the station and say, “Hey, you there, so…
I killed the old snake
(Perhaps by mistake?)
So please let me off easy now that you know!”

Siberia’s now where I’m destined to stay
For seven long years. With my whore-girl I pray
That I won’t freeze my butt off
Or get my head cut off…
I guess seven years isn’t too far away!

****
liger13
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1060 Posts
March 13 2009 02:06 GMT
#2
Blizzard ...

and hope that SC2 is released during your game
I feel like pwning noobs
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
March 13 2009 02:07 GMT
#3
Buy an equal amount (in dollars) of every stock in the Dow. The market is at a really low point. If you invest in the Dow as a whole, you should come out ahead.
ModeratorGood content always wins.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
March 13 2009 02:08 GMT
#4
I had to do this once, I just went with ones that had cool letters for their names. I didn't do too well though.
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
March 13 2009 02:11 GMT
#5
this is really tough, as it's hard for anyone to pick any three stocks. pick companies that you like, in industries that you think will do well.

For example, if you think video games are going to do well, then you should probably pick up blizzard stock (or whatever company owns eve possibly -_-)

If you think tech is going to do well, broadcom/cisco
if you think defense is going to do well: rayethon, Boeing. etc.
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Rainbow
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States249 Posts
March 13 2009 02:18 GMT
#6
OMFG. I played this in 4th and 5th grade with my class. Ez. Just use all your money to get dow jones and win. thats what I did :D
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-13 02:22:03
March 13 2009 02:21 GMT
#7
I did something like this way back in high school. I invested like 80% of my money into a stock that was FIVE CENTS per share. It stayed at 5 cents for like 2 months, and on the LAST DAY of our game, that stock went up to TWELVE CENTS. I had like... Hundreds of thousands of shares, so I beat everyone out by a long shot. =D
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JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
March 13 2009 02:28 GMT
#8
how long is this?
if it's longterm just invest in some index-tracking ETFs, hard to beat it. bond/stock split depends on how well you can sleep at night
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
March 13 2009 02:28 GMT
#9
On March 13 2009 11:21 Mikilatov wrote:
I did something like this way back in high school. I invested like 80% of my money into a stock that was FIVE CENTS per share. It stayed at 5 cents for like 2 months, and on the LAST DAY of our game, that stock went up to TWELVE CENTS. I had like... Hundreds of thousands of shares, so I beat everyone out by a long shot. =D

We can't buy stock lower than $5 per share :[

(assuming the OP is doing the same simulation I am)
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
March 13 2009 02:37 GMT
#10
your best bet ... is randomly choosing shit no joke D:
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LuMiX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
China5757 Posts
March 13 2009 03:01 GMT
#11
i did this back in middleschool and highschool. it was fun!
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9104 Posts
March 13 2009 03:07 GMT
#12
Put all $100,000 on ATVI easy money! That is Activizion-Blizzard btw.
fearus
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
China2164 Posts
March 13 2009 03:07 GMT
#13
Don't invest in a thing and by the end of the game the 100K would place you well above average in your class.
bisu fanboy
naonao
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States847 Posts
March 13 2009 03:10 GMT
#14
imo since market is so crappy, invest all into bank and collect intrest to win
Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-13 03:23:41
March 13 2009 03:15 GMT
#15
At least you're not like my friend, who's at ~$20k now and nearly last in NY state.
Edit: He's actually at $6,122.84 now and 2nd last in NY
FoBuLouS
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States570 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-13 03:26:02
March 13 2009 03:18 GMT
#16
LOL Kinky is referring to me, I am literally the second to last team on the stock market game (a team from stuyvesant high school).
The reason was that we shorted 8500 shares of GE just to spite our teacher cause he invested in GE in real life.
We got fucked in the ass big time lol. We basically shorted when GE was just about to go up. At least you know you're not doing as bad as us =p

Cash Balance: $6,122.84
Total Equity: $62,869.84
Region Rank: 1522 out of 1523
Region Trade Type: END OF DAY
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
March 13 2009 03:22 GMT
#17
short everything you can lolol

i'd buy mineral stocks
people buy gold stocks in case of fears of recession
another good one to look into are alternative energy groups and biotech
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Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
March 13 2009 05:50 GMT
#18
On March 13 2009 11:28 JeeJee wrote:
how long is this?
if it's longterm just invest in some index-tracking ETFs, hard to beat it. bond/stock split depends on how well you can sleep at night


i'm not sure exactly but i'd say about a month

On March 13 2009 11:28 BanZu wrote:
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On March 13 2009 11:21 Mikilatov wrote:
I did something like this way back in high school. I invested like 80% of my money into a stock that was FIVE CENTS per share. It stayed at 5 cents for like 2 months, and on the LAST DAY of our game, that stock went up to TWELVE CENTS. I had like... Hundreds of thousands of shares, so I beat everyone out by a long shot. =D

We can't buy stock lower than $5 per share :[

(assuming the OP is doing the same simulation I am)


lol we can, actually

On March 13 2009 12:07 fearus wrote:
Don't invest in a thing and by the end of the game the 100K would place you well above average in your class.


inoe, right? too bad our teacher anticipated this T_T

On March 13 2009 12:18 FoBuLouS wrote:
LOL Kinky is referring to me, I am literally the second to last team on the stock market game (a team from stuyvesant high school).
The reason was that we shorted 8500 shares of GE just to spite our teacher cause he invested in GE in real life.
We got fucked in the ass big time lol. We basically shorted when GE was just about to go up. At least you know you're not doing as bad as us =p

Cash Balance: $6,122.84
Total Equity: $62,869.84
Region Rank: 1522 out of 1523
Region Trade Type: END OF DAY


lol shit

On March 13 2009 12:22 Caller wrote:
short everything you can lolol

i'd buy mineral stocks
people buy gold stocks in case of fears of recession
another good one to look into are alternative energy groups and biotech


i wish we could short stocks >_<
anyways, thanks
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
March 13 2009 06:19 GMT
#19
I remember doing this in middle school. My teammates didn't want to invest in EA, which ended up tripling in value over the four months we did this =\

We ended up investing in really stable stocks and walked out with just a sliver more than we started with, once you figured the interest. (Don't do this.)
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
March 13 2009 07:37 GMT
#20
well a month isn't a long time at all
anything can happen
you're literally best served by going with your gut
do you get anything for winning? any penalty for doing exceptionally badly? depending on that you could go with some exchange rate bets or gold like someone mentioned earlier.

i assume dividends are taken into account on your return. just drop that shit in some random stock you feel like. pick a random day next week, go find the top 6 gainers, roll a dice, pick one of them. momentum baby~! empirically observed, ezpzlmnsqz
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
March 13 2009 21:41 GMT
#21
On March 13 2009 16:37 JeeJee wrote:
well a month isn't a long time at all
anything can happen
you're literally best served by going with your gut
do you get anything for winning? any penalty for doing exceptionally badly? depending on that you could go with some exchange rate bets or gold like someone mentioned earlier.

i assume dividends are taken into account on your return. just drop that shit in some random stock you feel like. pick a random day next week, go find the top 6 gainers, roll a dice, pick one of them. momentum baby~! empirically observed, ezpzlmnsqz

found out today it's until after AP tests (so sometime in may)
i split my $100000 almost pretty evenly among TIE, HW, CVGW, CALM and CQB (mineral-ish and food stocks)

thoughts?
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