Trading & Investing A-Term

On Thursday, we focused on researching companies and testing our strategies. In the morning, we found two companies that were in the same industry and sector, and then we compared them to each other to determine which would be a better investment. Using financial statements, important numbers such as EPS, P/E Ratio, Debt, P/B Ratio, and news about the company, we concluded what company had a stronger outlook for investing. Afterwards, we did technical analysis to determine what would be a good price, and to find if it was at a good buy point. This project helped us further understand concepts we had learned earlier in the course, and taught us how to actually apply the strategies we learned.       In the afternoon, we further worked on our strategies and actually backtested our own. We used popular companies, for example AAPL, SPY, etc, and tested our strategies to determine how successful they were. Whenever our strategy was triggered, we bought (or shorted) the s...

Day 5 On March 26th, we completed our first week of the Investing A-Term. In the morning we focused on subjects such as Asset allocation, Bonds, Passive income, and Alternative investments. Personally, I found that the most interesting part of my morning research was corporate bonds, and how they can not only have a higher percentage interest and return rate than government bonds but also how they can hold a higher risk factor. Our in-class discussion about bonds made me think about the possibility of investing in a bond-related asset in the future, and if it would help me achieve my financial goals.  Through what I have learned so far, this course has taught me how I can better my financial future by teaching me how and why I should invest. Personally, this course has given me financial clarity and furthered my confidence in the stock market’s ability to help me gain long-term, steady returns. More specifically, how I should invest in mostly stocks and a portion of Exchange Traded...

  Today was the first day of the Investing and Trading A term. We started off the day with everyone taking turns talking about what they hope/want to learn from this A term. Next, Dr. Ott gave everyone a topic and we all individually researched. We researched a variety of things including real estate, investments, options, and even forex trading. After we finished up researching we all came back together to report back to the rest of the class what we learned. We also started our Investopedia game this morning which is where we can simulate how it's like to trade in the stock market.  After lunch, we finished up our presentations. We then discussed a little more about trading stocks and how the Investopedia game is going to work. We are given $50,000 of fake money to start off with and are able to trade any stock that we would like. We were given time to explore and time to try and learn the ins and outs of trading. We ended the day by reporting back to the class about what we...

This morning, we discussed how to use the website "TradingView" and had to create accounts on the platform. Additionally, there was a slight fiasco in attempting to gain access to this blog, somehow I was the only person to receive an invite at first. Then we broke off to write a bit about our chosen topics. When the group came back together, we discussed and read, then broke apart for lunch. This afternoon, we discussed what we learned from playing with the graphs on TradingView and delegated who would write todays blogger. I wonder who they picked.