Assignment: Play Money Paper
Length: 3 to 5 pages.
Pretend that you have $10,000 to invest for four weeks. You are to "invest" this money in stocks or mutual funds and to track your investments on a weekly basis for four weeks (see schedule for due date). Pick five different stocks or funds to follow.
Write a report on
• Why you selected the investments you did?
• Whether any noteworthy company results, news events, or economic events impacted your investments during this period (show your gains or losses for the period)
• How your investments' performance compared with the performance of the S&P 500 index during this period?
• Your tracking of the following three stock market indexes:
o Dow Jones Industrial Average
o S&P 500 stock index
o Russell 2000 index for small caps
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.