Stock Vocab Week 6

1.   ECONOMY-The production and distribution of goods in services in a country.

Ex:  The U.S economy is struggling, because have so many unemployed people.

2. ECONOMIC SYSTEM- A combination of agencies that provide economic structure.

Ex: The Economic System isn't doing very good because of our rescission and the chaos that is coming from it.

3. SUPPLY AND DEMAND- The higher the demand and lower the availability equals the higher the price for that certain thing.

Ex:  The supply and demand is controlled by the public people depending on what they decide to buy or not buy.

4. INTEREST- The charge for using money.
Ex: I pay interest every time i use my credit card.

Occupy Wall Street

I think there are good points on both sides of this argument. When talking about being against this movement you could definitely say that there is a large percent of people in this country who are taking advantage of this situation. Many people who are going to these protests are being lazy. They aren't looking for jobs and they would rather sit and complain about the large amount of student debts that they may have. But on the other aspect, some people are working very hard to make up for the debt that they have acquired over this period of time. They are making a good attempt to get jobs and working hard to not be one of the many people attending these protests who aren't doing anything. I can see why people would be apart or against the occupy wall street protests.

Stock vocab week 5

1. Inflation- The increase of prices for goods and services over time.
Ex: The inflation of the stock has been up over 50% in the last few months.
2. Gross Domestic Product- When a newly finished product is sold it contributes to the GDP.
Ex: The new IPhone contributed heavily to the GDP.
3. Currency- A way of exchange.
Ex: In America our currency is not the same as in Canada, therefore you can't trade things straight across.
4. Infrastructure- Physical systems of a business that are often public systems of a country that are necessary for economic activities.
Ex: Without infrastructure some businesses would fall apart from the lack of structure.

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Week Four Vocab/ Journal Entry

Vocab
1. Explain the number of the Dow Jones (up or down) where does the number come from? An indicator of stock market prices.
Ex: The Dow Jones read down 2.34% today because most companies were losing a little bit of money.
2. What is the S and P 500? The standard and poors 500 and the index made up of 500 different stocks and its the bench mark of the overall market.
Ex: The S and P 500 is at an overall gain today of $200.
3. What is the Russekk 2000? The Index measuring the performance of 2000 small companies.
Today the Russekk 2000 read an overall gain in income of 5.67%
4. Treasury Bond- A fixed interest loan from the government that has a maturity of over 10 years.
Ex: I bought a treasury bond with 1.5% interest today to hopefully earn triple what i bought it for in ten years.

Journal
From the very start i had decieded that Nike was just a trade for me because i bought it when it was in the lower part of the 52 week range at $ 87.32. I knew with all the sports and holidays coming that it would be a good stock to buy into for a short period of time. This week i decided to short sell Nike. I thought this would be a good idea because I am losing money and there is basketball season around the corner. I believe that with the up coming sports season this stock will go up atleast 5 dollars and I will be earning my money back. More and more people will be buying into this stock because they price will be so good and that will cause the price per share to go up. I bought Nike for $ 87.32. Already over the course of the last month this price has gone up to $ 92.97. I believe that as the sports season gets closer this price will continue to rise at a steady pace until it gets to about $95.00, which is the max for the 52 week chart.

Stock Vocab/ Journal Entry Week Three

1.   RISK-The chance of losing some or the entire thing of your original investment

Ex: The risk i have in losing everything from starbucks is high because of the high rise in coffee bean prices.

2.   SMALL CAP-Stocks with a small market capitalization of 3 million to 2 billion dollars.

Ex: Spreadtrum Communications is a small cap company because its income is less than 2 billion dollars.

3.   MID CAP- Stock with an average market capitalization of 2 billion dollars to 10 billion dollars.

Ex: Eagle Materials is a Mid Cap company because its income is between 2 billion and 10 billion dollars

4.   LARGE CAP-Largest market capitalization that's income is more than 10 billion dollars.
Ex:Apple is a Large Cap company because its income is more than 10 billion dollars.

Journal
This week i choose not to sell any stocks. I decided to do this because none of my stocks showed a big gain or lose that would set me off to sell them. I did some research to see if there were any catalysts coming soon for any of my investments. I have decided to keep Nike because basketball season is coming soon and according to the 52 week graph Nike's stocks go up in price around the middle of October because people begin buying basketball shoes. After the prices sky rocket for a few weeks i plan on short selling it to gain money.
Another stock i thought about was Goodrich. That is the only stock that I'm consistently not losing money on. Eventually when this stock is going up atleast 15%  i will try to short sell it to gain alot of money.