Trading & Investing A-Term

  Micah Weinstock Dr. Ott Investing A-Term March 31, 2021 A-Term Reflection I have enjoyed taking this A-Term. I found it helpful to build upon my base knowledge from Dr. Ott’s J-Term course. It’s a fun look at ways to generate income that can be anything from something you do during your lunch break to a full time occupation. I believe, for me, there were several key takeaways in what I learned and how I grew: maturity, research, and patience. Maturity is a big part of trading to me. There are many times where you will be making large financial decisions that carry huge consequences and weight. You need to have a certain knowledge in what you’re doing, coupled with a certain amount of trust in yourself. Another key takeaway from this would be the need to research, it’s not just a guessing game. “It's not gambling when you know you're gonna win.” - Alan Garner . The people who make the very most on stocks all research and have strategies that they abide to, regardless of

  Reflection - John M Before I joined the Investing A-Term, I was investing and trading for nearly a year with moderate to little experience in how the stock market works. Following this, my understanding of the stock market and the art of investing has risen significantly. Not only do I now know how to plan for my retirement at age 18, but I also know that I can trade on the stock market short-term with confidence! In particular, I was most interested in planning out my Roth Individual Retirement Account that I already opened. At first, I knew that a Roth IRA would help me if I devoted a specific amount of money per year into that account, but I didn’t exactly know what to invest in, or how to diversify. After a few days of this A-Term, I developed an official spreadsheet to plan out my retirement account! (which is available for view on the Trading and Investing padlet) I now know what specific funds to invest in, and how much I should put into these funds.  I would like to recom

  I decided to take this A term for the reason I think a lot of people joined: to make lots and lots of money. Over the past 8 days, I think I have learned more about investing and trading than the majority of adults in the world. I enjoyed this A term so much more than I originally thought I would. Going into this I thought it was going to be very boring and I was only doing it because I thought it was a good learning experience and information that would be helpful in the future. As the days passed I realized that although investing and trading can be very stressful, it also can be very exciting and fun to learn about. I loved learning about everything we talked about. I especially enjoyed it when I was even able to teach my own parents about the investing world. I think my favorite part of the course was how independent it was. After learning the basics Dr. Ott explained that we can research anything that piqued our interests. We were able to dive deeper into what we wanted to learn

     Although I am experienced in the realm of investing, there is always more to learn and I did a lot of that over the past week. Over the course of the two weeks, on top of learning, I helped teach many of the topics and gave tutorials on how to use websites and other investing tools, which refined this information for me, and forced me to dive deeper and get a more comprehensive understanding of these subjects. As is the case with many stock traders, I have taken on stock options and although I have developed a good understanding of them, I had never looked at selling options. For nearly the entire first week, I looked into selling options and strategies that took advantage of time decay to make money. I learned about call and put spreads and took this further by learning about Iron Condors. As I grasped these concepts, I looked into manipulating these strategies to take bullish or bearish positions mid-trade, and watched many videos that backtested these strategies. The most impor

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 Greetings my good brethren, I doubt any of you read this, but I do have to say I learned a fair amount over the course of these 8 days, such as some basic lingo how to read those ethereal candlestick graphs and apply some handy dandy strategies, as well as how one could wedge themselves into real estate and the toiling labor that goes into such investment. I'll start off by saying I chose this course for the obvious reason of making quick money and quickly discovered the horrid truth of the minute chance of that being a possibility with trading and investing stock, however, joyfully, I stumbled upon some silver lining, and that being investing in real estate, which also isn't quick money, but hey, its faster than stocks if your strategic about what your doing.  Will I be sharing any of those strategies I learned with you, NO , for I shall become a vile and repulsive capitalist!  Anyways, I won't get too in depth about anything if you want to know how to create passive inco