Market Watch

Virtual Stock Exchange

Safwan Dawood Shams

Id # 093-0670-530

Course: Fin 435

Section: 2

Submitted to:

Zubair Hossain

Lecturer

North South University

Executive Summary:

For the completion of this project, we were asked to register an account at the website www.marketwatch.com and play a virtual stock exchange game, taking part in active trading and recording of stock price information. Market watch offers personal finance news and advice, tools for investors and access to industry research. We invested in various numbers of stocks which we thought would be profitable. We were able to use both technical analysis and fundamental analysis, since some company information was always easily publicly available on the internet, and since market watch also listed some ratios of the companies, which were relevant to making investment decisions about the stocks. I have documented the transactions and performances on a weekly basis, starting from the first week of July 2012 to the second week of August 2012.

Companies that I have traded with:

Company Name | Symbol |

Zipcar Inc | ZIP |

Apple Inc | APPL |

Nokia Corp | NOK |

Sanmina-SCI Corp | SANM |

Webster Financial Corp | WBS |

Commerce Bancshare Inc | CBSH |

Zynga Inc | ZNGA |

Best Buy Co. | BBY |

Facebook Inc | FB |

Yahoo! Inc | YHOO |

Dell Inc | DELL |

Jabil Circuit Inc | JBL |

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My position at Market Watch:

Total Return: $ 2234.75

Total Present Equity: $ 102234.75

Return on Equity: 2.34%

Nokia Corp.

The reason for buying the stocks of Nokia was that the stock price has dropped to a reasonable level at which it became a attractive buy again. After I bought the stocks, the company fetched me a decent return on my investment.

Apple Inc.

I selected stocks of Apple as it has been earning good levels of profit for the last few quarters and have also seen positive changes is share prices for the last few quarters as well. The analysis also believed the firm to...