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Stock Market Game Presentation
6
Portfolio Challenge
By Soham, Zac, and Aadi
Preface
Preface
Greetings,
We are in 6th grade, from Mason Intermediate, and our teacher is Mrs. Davis. We are happy to share our presentation about what we did to win the Stock Market Game. We hope you enjoy!
Sincerely,
Aadi, Soham, and Zac
Stocks we Bought
These are the stocks we had at the end of the Stock Market Game
The Stocks We Bought
Tesla
The electric car company, Tesla, was at that time very successful with it's vehicle sales. We bought this thinking it would bring us profit. My brother, who also participated in the Stock Market Game, and my dad told me that buying Tesla would be a very Good idea. We first bought 80 shares, but then sold all except twenty because we were losing a lot of money.
Tesla
Nio (NIO)
NIO is a Chinese electric car company. We bought NIO because we it was rapidly increasing it's stock price. NIO is probably one the main factors why we won. At the end of the game we had 1150 shares.
NIO
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon, a highly used commerce website, has a very high stock price at around $3,000! We bought 10 shares a little less than two weeks before the end of the Stock Market Game. We did it because we still had money in our Account Holdings, and buying other minor companies affect our cash balance much, so we purchased Amazon.
Also, Amazon was losing money, and we predicted that it would go back up in time for us to gain a good amount of money. (Amazon is the type of company who's stock price goes up and down)
Moderna
Moderna is a an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. We stumbled onto Moderna because they were a leader in Covid-19 vaccine development. At the end of the game we had 100 shares. We predicted that we would profit from Moderna because it was getting many funds for vaccine research. Since Covid-19 vaccines would be in high demand, we thought that it would also affect the stock price, which it did.
QuantumScape
QuantumScape is a newer company that makes energy-efficient batteries for electric cars, which is predicted to be the future of automobiles. QuantumScape partners with car companies like Volkswagen. We bought 500 shares of it, and we profited by a lot.
Microsoft
Mircosoft is an American technology company owned by Bill Gates. We bought this partly because one of Microsoft's products is the Xbox, which many gamers use. With the release of the Xbox X Series, people would rush at the opportunity to get one. We never sold Microsoft, obviously.
Microsoft
Stocks we Sold
These are the stocks we sold and why we sold them.
FB -Facebook - 10 shares
NFLX - Netflix - 10 shares
FSLY - Fastly - 10 shares
CHTR - Charter/Spectrum - 10 shares
ADBE - Adobe - 15 shares
WIX - Wix- 15 shares
REGN - Regeneron - 10 shares
BIIB - Biogen - 15 shares
We bought this widely used social media service because it was making a lot of money, more people would be using it because of the pandemic. We thought that it would affect the stocks, but they went down.
Netflix
The movie and TV streaming company, Netflix, was one of the first stocks we bought. We had this one for a while before we sold it. We bought it because it was making money, and we kept it for a while, until it was losing money, so we sold it.
Fastly
The first stock we bought were 10 shares of Fastly. This was a mistake, as we accidentally bought it. We soon sold it, as it was also losing money.
Fastly
Charter
Charter Communications, or Spectrum was recommended by Aadi's brother, who also bought Charter from his time in the Stock Market Game. At first, we made good profit, but we sold it when it was losing money.
Adobe
Adobe is a technology software company that has many products. We thought a lot of YouTubers would be using Adobe's video editing and photo-editing apps in the time of the pandemic.
We sold Adobe a few weeks later, because it was losing money.
Wix
Wix is a widely used website builder, like Google Sites. We bought it because it was gaining a considerable amount of money. Buying Wix was a bad choice, because we were losing money from it a few days after purchasing it. So in the end, we sold it.
Wix
Regeneron
Regeneron is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. We bought Regeneron because we thought they were making a COVID-19 vaccine. which they weren't.
We eventually sold it after around a week because it was losing money and not going back up (at the time being).
Regeneron
Biogen
Biogen is a pharmaceutical company that was gaining money. We thought they might develop a COVID-19 vaccine, (which they didn't, it was only a slight possibility)
Biogen
Our Strategies and Tactics
Strategies and Tactics
These are the tactics that helped us win the Stock Market Game.
Common Sense
It may sound arrogant, but common sense was very helpful. If something was in demand, like the COVID-19 vaccine, business would boom for companies like Moderna and Pfizer.
Also, if a stock price that goes up and down over time and it is decreasing more than normal, selling would be a safe choice.
So we made sure that the stock price was closer to the low end of the 52- Week Range when we bought it, and to the high end if we sold it.
Common Sense
Our Successful Tactics
When we were buying shares of companies, we looked for companies that would benefit from the pandemic, such as Moderna. They benefited because their vaccines would be in high demand.
We also looked for patterns. For example when the stock market had a bad day, or if the company is the type that has it's stock price going up and down. If we buy it when it is low, we will make profit when it goes back up.
If a company's stock price was going up, we decideed to not sell it and profit over time, like NIO or QuantumScape. This was one of our main strategies.
Successful Tactics Continued
We researched companies by looking at Yahoo Finance or Google Finance and looked at their past history to determine their outcome. A lot of companies are in their prime during COVID-19, but that is only one factor in deciding.
Successful Tactics #2
The Strategies That Did Not Work For Us
Strategies that didn't work for us
One of our failed strategies was to look at the earnings date, because we thought that that is when the company's investments would have profit. We thought that the price of the shares would increase. We were wrong, obviously.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Images
Right at the end of the Stock Market Game, we had to take screenshots of important informational statistics in our Portfolio. These are the images.
Images
General Information
This is the general information given on the home page of the Stock Market Game
General Information
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Realized Gains and Losses
Here it shows the Realized Gains and Losses, automatically generated by the Stock Market Game
Realized Gains and Losses
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Transaction Notes
The Transactions Notes show the trades made during the game.
Transaction Notes
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Advice
Some advice for people who want to invest would be to keep in mind the supply and demand. For example, if there are a lot of electric cars and not enough battery production, people can invest in new battery companies. But if the companies don't have enough supply for the demand, or can't sustain heavy business, the investors should sell their stock at the estimated height.
More
We are more likely to invest in stocks. In fact, we are going to trade the Target Gift Card for fifty dollars with our parents and use the fifty dollars for buying stocks.