Someone help me with my stock market challenge

MJNA - Buy around .10 and sell at .16 and repeat.

Dollar cost averaging is the way to go. Also, buy mutual funds and bonds, not individual stocks. And most of all, don't think you can time the market. A lot of people smarter than you have gone broke doing that.

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX). You can't predict the market. Don't even try. Passive investing.

You haven't said what the challenge is. You can't tell us that you are running a race in 2 months and want training advice if you don't give us the distance.

What's the challenge?

SNAP - it's IPO will be soon.

You know that your teacher wants to see who just throws their money in stocks. You will be DQd if you do this-part of the game and a lesson in investing. Find a good vanguard index and you will win or at least be in the game.

It's fairly obvious from his post that they each get $10k and whoever has the most after three months is the winner. How can you say we need more information??

And no, for this type of activity you don't choose a total market index fund! This isnt real life. Find a stock search engine and find small, volatile stocks as you mentioned. Buy and sell as they move. Unless of course your grade is based on your performance, then you'll need to be more conservative. Are you allowed to short positions? That may be a decent strategy in the short term as high as it's run recently.

[QUOTE]How can you say we need more information?...Unless of course...Are you allowed to short positions?

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How can you say "How can you say we need more information?" and then ask for more information?

Short the market. It is going to implode when Trump is impeached.

plog wrote:

[QUOTE]How can you say we need more information?...Unless of course...Are you allowed to short positions?

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How can you say "How can you say we need more information?" and then ask for more information?

Very good point.

Buy a micro cap fund - Like royce micro cap RYOTX - Driehaus Micro Cap Growth Fund - DMCRX

Do you get anything if you win or lose?

If there's nothing to lose you might as well try some crazy stuff, the index funds are just going to represent the class average.

Take small positions on $GLF and $CIE, even a pharmas like $AMPE or $DPRX. They make your portfolio much more interesting.

Financial Advisers Help wrote:

For my high school economics course we're doing a stock market challenge over the next 3 months. Starting balance is 10K, so far I've put it all into google, apple, Netflix, and twitter, but seeing as this money doesn't mean anything I'm looking for some good penny stocks to invest in to spice it up a little. If anyone could recommend some good ones that would be sweet.

Those are the stupidest stocks to buy tbh. Expensive & you can lose a lot of money. What I did I looked at the charts that predicted it's growth throughout the following months. Then bought the most increasing ones. They were also cheap so I was able to buy a lot. Ended up winning in my class & ranked top 10 in the state so that was cool

You guys are all wrong. This is a high school assignment so he can change the rules of the game.

Wait until the end of the 3 months then research which markets did well. Say you invested in those stocks, then mix in some bad and average stocks to make it seem less obvious. In your report, make up something about how you researched the geopolitics, ceo, technology, international relations, news, or whatever assumptions about the companies you invested in that resulted in your winning yield. They will think you're a genius.

Financial Advisers Help wrote:

For my high school economics course we're doing a stock market challenge over the next 3 months. Starting balance is 10K, so far I've put it all into google, apple, Netflix, and twitter, but seeing as this money doesn't mean anything I'm looking for some good penny stocks to invest in to spice it up a little. If anyone could recommend some good ones that would be sweet.

Not bad choices with the exception of twitter which is in the shitter as of late despite trump doing everything he can to drum up business for them. Penny stocks are a crap shoot. If you decide to go that route jitsu pick one and hope for the best. Think of some trump plays - NUE (American steel for infrastructure), Raytheon/Boeing (for defense), bank stocks (with the gdp expected to pick up interest rates are headed up which helps this sector)

Assuming you can't use leverage, derivatives etc, you should put 100% in a single highly volatile stock. You probably won't win, but the winner probably will use this strategy. You're not trying to give yourself a secure retirement income, you're trying to make massive gains in a short period of time. Fundamentals are irrelevant. Diversification will just dilute your gains if you do hit the jackpot. In this game, there is only one winner - a sustainable positive return is no better than crashing out and losing everything.

Look for things like small pharmaceutical companies, small mining/energy companies, small tech companies with big hype. If it's got momentum and a good story and looks a lot like a lottery ticket, it's what you want. You'll probably fail horribly, but no sensible investment is going to double in three months. When it's mostly hot air, the price can go anywhere.

AMD

We did this in 4th grade(less in depth of course) and I figured out that it is delayed by 15 minutes. Just flip big money stocks like Berkshire Hathaway.