Travis' Review

What I contributed to the blog was i started the blog and kept everyone on track as to of what they needed to do. When it came to figuring out who needed to do what post or posts for the week I helped figure that out. I learned during the stock market game that it does not matter on what you think is going to happen to some stocks, because that might not always happen and you can't rely on that alone to figure out which stocks to invest in. I also learned what Short selling is and that if you think a stock is going to go down that you should short sell it rather than do nothing with it. I also learned that a Mutual Fund is a good way to earn money because it spreads your money out into different stocks. A bond is also another good thing that I learned about. A bond is a loan to a company that they have to pay back with interest. During the stock market game I would have changed what some of the stocks were that we invested in and how we invested in the stocks. I would have kept the same on how we did some of the things for the stock market and investing in the stock market. I would have kept the short selling, and maybe have even of done more of that.

Competitor Review for 12/14/09 to 12/18/09

For this week I will be doing a competitor review. I will be comparing the stocks Microsoft to Apple. Microsoft is the stock that we hold while Apple is another computer maker. On Monday Microsoft was at about 30.11 points, while Apple Inc. was at about 196.98. On Tuesday Microsoft was at about 30.02, while Apple Inc. was at about 194.17. On Wednesday Microsoft was at about 30.10, while Apple Inc. was at about 195.03. On Thursday Microsoft was at about 29.60, while Apple Inc. was at about 191.86. On Friday Microsoft was at about 30.36, while Thursday was at about 195.43. At the end of the week Microsoft gained about 1.7%-1.8%. Apple Inc. ended the week by gaining 0.4%-0.5%.

Review of the portfolio (Week 10)

For the final week of the stock market game, no changes (buying or selling stocks) were made to our portfolio. Our rank moved up and is now at 325 of 973. Our cash balance is at $68,277.12 the total equity was at $99,718.12. Our totaly equity has moved but not very much for the final week. Hopefully these last couple days of christmas will bring the stocks up even by a small amount would be a nice touch. No stock splits or dividends for this final week.

Coltons review

I will be explaining and or telling you how i myself would be doing this "stock market game" differently. I will be telling you, What i have learned from this game, What would i change if i were to restart this game, and What i would be keeping the same. First, what i have learned. I have learned how to manage stocks, and funds, and when to short sell, and how to keep myself from going under meaning i have also learned how to research and look into what that company will be doing in the future, and what will they be changing. Next, what i would change if i were to start over. I would change the company/company's i and my team bought stock in, I would of bought allot more "blue chip" company's. Blue Chip company's are like gas stations and oil company's etc. Finally, i will be telling you what i would keep the same. I would be keeping the amount of stocks we have bought the same, as well as the rank we currently hold in this game.

Review of the Market for 12/14/09 to 12/18/09

The S&P 500 for Monday gained 8 points, or 0.7%, closing at the highest point since October 2nd, 2008. For Tuesday it went down 6 points, or 0.6%. On Wednesday it went up 1 point, or 0.1%. For Thursday it went down 13 points, or 1.2%. On Friday it went gained 7 points, or 0.6%. For the week, S&P 500 lost 0.4%.

The DJIA for Monday rose 30 points, or 0.3%, closing at the highest point since October 1st, 2008. For Tuesday it went down 49 points, or 0.5%. On Wednesday it went down 11 points, or 0.1%. For Thursday it went down 133 points, or 1.3%. On Friday it went up 21 points, or 0.2%. For the week, DJIA lost 1.4%.

The NASDAQ for Monday gained 22 points, or 1%, closing at the highest point since September 18th, 2008. For Tuesday it went down 11 points, or 0.5%. On Wednesday it went up 6 points, or 0.3%. For Thursday it went down 27 points, or 1.2%. On Friday it went up 32 points, or 1.5%. For the week, NASDAQ gained 1%.

Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page.

This weeks blog will be on Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page. Investors cash out of money funds in drove. Investors have yanked out Net worth $490 billion from money funds this year through October. And others have just cashed there money out of the stock. This is all due to people flowing there cash money funds and are going into bond funds. This occurrence has only happened twice in the last 26 years. They say this is happening because bill's and other payments have deepened in price in the last few years. "It shows how deep the recession is: They may be taking money out to pay the bills or the mortgage." says Vincent Deluard. Investors where noted to be chasing "red-hot returns" during the month of October but for some reason, they were not this come this month October. But investors aren't chasing hot returns. And since the end of October, money fund assets have fallen an estimated $176 billion, the ICI says. An estimated $9.4 billion has fled stock funds. And $50 billion has poured into bond funds. Some investors are probably leaving money funds because yields are tiny. Money fund yields are low because the Federal Reserve has been holding short-term rates down to boost the economy.

Competitor Review for 12/7/09 to 12/11/09

For this week I will be doing a competitor review. I am going to compare Sprint Nextel Corp, (S) to the company that we have shares in Verizon Wireless (VZ). On Monday Verizon and Sprint had about the same amount of points. For Tuesday Verizon gained about 0.5% in points, while Sprint lost 6.5% in points. On Wednesday Verizon lost about 0.2%-0.3% in points, while Sprint gained about 5.3%-5.4% in points. For Thursday Verizon gained about 1.0%-1.1% in points, while Sprint lost about 2.5%-2.6% in points. By the end of the week Verizon gained about 0.1%-0.2% in points, while Sprint gained about 0.9%-1.0% in points. In the end Verizon gained only 1.4%-1.5%, while Sprint lost 2.6%-2.7%. Verizon came out on top this week in the stock market against Sprint Nextel Corp,.

Review of The Market (week 9)

DJIA: The Dow for the week started at 10390.1104 and slowly dropped about 100 points the first day. The second, third, fourth, and fifth day each went up about 50 points ending the week at 10,471.50

NASDAQ: The NASDAQ started at 2189.6101 and more than 15 the first. The second day started and rose a little over 9 points by the end of the day. Third started out slow but gradually rose about 7 points. The last day was really boring and had a very slow drop and ended the week with 2190.3101

S&P 500: The S&P had quite the week just like the NASDAQ and the Dow. The S&P dropped about 12 points. The second day rose about 4. Third rose about 7 points. The last day rose and the week ended at 1106.41

Review of Portfolio: 12/7/09 to 12/11/09

For this week we didn't buy or sell any stocks. Our Portfolio is ranked 358 out of 969. We have a Cash Balance of $68,028.32 and a Total Equity of $99,702.32. Our Portfolio increased since last week. We are hoping with Christmas coming up that our stocks will increase with the last minute shoppers buying things. There were no stock splits or dividends.

Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page.

For this weeks blog, i will be doing Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page. Can home market bounce back without more help? The housing market was supposed to be picking up. The year is ending on a brighter note than it began. Sales of existing homes are running at the highest pace in more than two years. Inventory of unsold homes is the lowest in more than a year. And home prices are falling at a much slower pace than they were this time last year. This is all due to the goverment assassistning with home buyer tax credit. Next year should be a roller coaster, likely to bring only slight improvement, given high unemployment and tight credit. For now, the housing market is feeding on the home buyer tax credit, falling home prices and low mortgage rates. Average rates on 30-year mortgages have been about 5% this fall.

Competitors

The company that I am going to compare to a competitor is Activision Blizzard (ATVI). The competitor is going to be Electronics Arts Inc. (ERTS). On Monday ATVI and ERTS was at about the same amount of points when they closed. On Tuesday ATVI gained about 2% while ERTS gained about 0.5%, meaning ATVI lead ERTS for the day. On Wednesday ATVI lost almost 3% while ERTS lost about 0.7%, meaning that ERTS lead ATVI for the day. On Thursday ATVI lost about 0.3% while ERTS lost about 1.7%, meaning ATVI lead ERTS for the day. On Friday ATVI lost about 2.5% while ERTS lost about 2.1%, meaning ATVI lead ERTS for the day. For the week, all but one day was lead by ATVI. Both stocks lost money for this week, but ATVI still came out on top.

Review of Portfolio (week 8)

For this week I will be reviewing our portfolio. We did not sell or buy any stocks for the week. We paid no commission for any of our stocks for this week due to no buying or selling. Our total equity is 99,620.53 which is a $643.28 increase since Friday. Our cash balance is $67859.53. We valued our portfolio went up because with the holidays coming near, companies are having sales and people are buying more stuff. No stock splits and dividends for this week. We are ranked 349 out of 965 contestants.

Review of the Market for 11/30/09 to 12/4/09

The S&P 500 on Monday went up 4 points, or 0.4%. On Tuesday it went up 13 points, or 1.2%. On Wednesday it stayed at about the same as it finished on Tuesday. On Thursday it went down 9 points, or 0.8%. On Friday it went 6 points, or 0.6%. Finishing this week with a positive gain.

The DJIA on Monday went up 35 points, or 0.3%. On Tuesday it went up 127 points, or 1.2%, closing at its highest point since October 2nd, 2008. On Wednesday it went down 19 points, or 0.2%. On Thursday it went down 86 points, or 0.8%. On Friday it went up 23 points, or 0.2%, to close at 10388.90 after hitting a 14-month high of 10,516.70 in the morning. Finishing this week with a positive gain.

The NASDAQ on Monday went up 6 points, or 0.3%. On Tuesday it went up 31 points, or 1.5%. On Wednesday it went up 9 points, or 0.4%. On Thursday it went up 12 points, or 0.5%, being the only one to raise its stocks for today. On Friday it went 21 points, or 1%. Finishing this week with a positive gain.

New products/services

For this weeks blog, i will be doing "New Products/services provided in an industry you hold.". And i will be doing it on "Blizzard". Blizzard is expanding their "World of Warcraft" franchise into foreign country's expanding their 11million people rank to even higher. And into 2010, they will have "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and Diablo III also Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty " all will have world record sales but the one to come in first place down right would be "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm". This release alone will have millions and millions of people buying up on it.

USA Today

For this weeks blog, i will be doing " Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page. Include a link to the article and then your review of what was presented". Black Friday effect: Weekend sees rise in shoppers, retail federation says 195 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the weekend. Americans spent an estimated $41.2 billion over the holiday weekend, an amount on par with last year. Which in other words meant that sales went up a crap load for businesses around the country. The weekend proved that shoppers were willing to spend on bargains, it might not reveal much about the rest of the holiday shopping season. This was a big shock for many seeing as how the economy is going down the drain money wise as we speak. To have sales go up a bunch once again, Retailers have gathered up and came up with "Cyber Monday".

Review of Portfolio: 11/23/09 to 11/27/09

For this week I will be doing a review of our portfolio. We didn't buy or sell anything last week for the Stock Market. We paid no commission for any of our stocks for this week because we didn't buy or sell. The markets were closed on Thursday of this week so we didn't gain or lose anything for this day. We had a total equity on Friday of $98,977.25 and a cash balance of $67,818.75. The value of our Portfolio went down by about $1,000. Our portfolio went down because some of the companies are starting to go back down in value, but in the weeks to come our portfolio should gain more money because of Christmas coming up and all of the Christmas shopping that people will do. There are no stock splits or stock dividends for this week.

Housing Review

For this weeks blog, i will be doing, "Review of the economy in general. What is happening and why". Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2½ years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit. Home sales % jumped up 10.1% since October. First time home owners, were able to claim a 8,000 tax credit making it a lot more easy to purchase a home. People who have owned their current homes for at least five years can now claim a tax credit of up to $6,500 for a home purchase. This huge surge in home purchasing is majorly messing up the "7 month" home supply on the market and is sending community's into bidding wars. This was all caused by the govt trying to counter that trend by offering a tax incentive for first-time buyers and by keeping mortgage rates around 5% since the spring. Home sales are likely to drop over the winter as buyers hibernate for a few months without the looming tax credit deadline.

Competitor Review for 11/16/09 to 11/20/09

For this week I will doing a competitor review for Activision Blizzard against EA games. For this week Activision and EA games started at about the same. Activision and EA both went down with Activision about EA on Monday. On Tuesday Activision was still ahead of EA. On Wednesday Activision was a bit of ways ahead of EA. On Thursday Activision gained a bigger lead over EA but still went down in the stock market. So far today Activision is still higher than EA.

New products/services

For "New Products/services provided in an industry you hold." i will be going over what Valve "the company" came out with, "Left 4 Dead 2". Left 4 Dead 2 has attracted an unusually high volume of pre release controversy. It has received a combination of positive, negative, critical, and community reactions. But the game still had a very high rate of sales. The game plot Like Left 4 Dead , the sequel involves the aftermath of apocalyptic . There has been an outbreak of a viral eating disease that causes infected humans to behave like zombies . The game release has pulled almost, if not more sales then COD6. And "GameStop" is having "Black Friday" where the sales of this game will sky rocket.

Review of the Market for 11/16/09 to 11/20/09

The S&P 500 on Monday went up 15.8 points, or 1.8%. On Tuesday it went up 1 point to close above the key 1,100 level. On Wednesday it went down less than one point. On Thursday it went down 1.3%. On Friday it went down 0.6% at midday.

The DJIA on Monday went up 136 points, or 1.3%. On Tuesday it went up 30 points or, 0.3%. On Wednesday it went down 11 points, or 0.1%. On Thursday it went down 94 points, or 0.9%. On Friday it went down 44 points, or 0.%, at midday.

The NASDAQ on Monday went up 30%, or 1.4%. On Tuesday it went up 0.3%. On Wednesday it went down 10 points, or 0.5%. On Thursday it went down 36 points, or 1.6%. On Friday it went down by 0.7%, at midday.

New Products

Activision's "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," crushes records -

Over 300 million dollars were made the other week as the latest Call of Duty franchise game blows sales away for its opening debut. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 4.7 million copies and made 310 million dollars in the United States and Great Britain alone. The video game even surpassed "The Dark Knight," which had the record of the top opening weekend with 154 million US dollars in July of last year. The Call of Duty franchise has now become a bone crushing phenomenon in the entertainment industry. With online gaming now, the video game industry sales have made dramatic sales. Activision believes that their new installment will have the California based company will set record operating margins.

Competitor

For this week I will be doing a Competitor Review on Activision Blizzard. Ill be comparing Activision Blizzard to "THQ Inc" and how well each did to each other. On Monday Blizzard and THQ were at the same. Tuesday, Blizzard went down 1%. while THQ was on a huge drop of 4%. On Wednesday Blizzard stayed at the 1% drop, while THQ had another drastic change of going up 7.5%. Come Thursday, Blizzard rose around .1% while THQ dropped about 1.5%. Finally on Friday, Blizzard went up another 2%, and THQ dropped another %. So make short, Blizzard as well as THQ were both on financial roller coasters.

Review of Portfolio: 11/9/09 to 11/13/09

For this week we didn't buy or sell anything. Our total equity is $99,078.35. Our Cash Balance is $67,206.35. Our portfolio gained money because there was a new game that came out this week called, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This game raised the price of Activision Blizzard from $11.54 per share to $11.69 per share. Best Buy also had an increase in stock during the week because of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being released in stores. No stock dividends or splits occurred during this week

Review of the market for the week

For "Review of the Market for the week: What happened the previous week for the following indicies: S&P 500" Ill be giving a brief over look at how good the company's did over a weeks span.
DJIA
NASDAQ

The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 7 points, or 0.7%
The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 2 points, or 0.2%
The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 1 point, or 0.1%
The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 20 points, or 1.9%
The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 3 points or 0.3%
The S&P 500 ended this week at 1,059.81

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) rose 77 points, or 0.8%
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 17 points, or 0.2%
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 30 points, or 0.3%
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 205 points, or 2.1%
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added 17 points, or 0.2%
The Dow Jones is currently at 9,938.09

the Nasdaq composite (COMP) rose 4 points, or 0.2%
the Nasdaq composite (COMP) rose 8 points, or 0.4%
the Nasdaq composite (COMP) lost 2 points, or 0.1%
The Nasdaq composite (COMP) climbed nearly 50 points, or 2.4%
The Nasdaq composite (COMP) rose 7 points, or 0.3%.
The Nasdaq composite is currently at 2,103.76

Competitors Review: 11/2/09 - 11/6/09

For this week I will be doing a Competitor Review on Activison Blizzard and comparing them to Electronic Arts, Inc. Activision Blizzard started this week at the same point as Electronic Arts, Inc. As the week goes on Activision Blizzard gains a bigger lead over Electronic Arts, Inc. Moving towards the end of the week Electronic Arts, Inc is starting to gain some ground on Activision Blizzard. At about the middle of the week on Wednesday Electronic Arts hit its low for this week and from there started gaining till about Friday where it ended at only 2-3% lower then Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard had a help this week with the release of DJ Hero and Band Hero, while Electronic Arts had help with the game Dragon Age: Origins and its expansion packs for the PC and Xbox 360.

Company News: 11/2/09 - 11/6/09

Activision Blizzard increases its profits this week. It says that its main contributors to its profits are a couple of the video games it has recently released. Activision Blizzard says that the "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" and the map pack for "Call of Duty: World at War" really helped. It also says that pushing back their racing game called "Blur" to next year won't help much. They say they had two of the quarters top 10 sellers in the U.S. with the games "Guitar Hero World Tour" and "Guitar Hero 5". Activision Blizzard expects to release five games this quarter for the Holidays. The games are "Tony Hawk: Ride", "Bakugan Battle Brawlers", "DJ Hero", "Band Hero", and "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". They warned that the "World of Warcraft" game suffered a setback. The setback is due to the Chinese authorities refused license to NetEase.com Inc's application to operate the latest version of the game.

Company news

The Droid won't help Motorola -

The new Motorola Droid, which was on sale officially today, won't really save Motorola or Verizon. The new smartphone that's powered by the new google android operating system needs to be a big hit in order help Motorola and Verizon. The reviews of the Android OS have been fairly decent yet not might make the hype it has been building these past several weeks. The Droid needs to be a big hit for Motorola seeing as how the razr which was released in 2004, was the last big relevant phone they had.

Competition Review

The main competitor to Verizon(VZ), AT&T (T) is once again blowing past Verizon with its new Centinnial Communications Corp. purchase for a staggering $945 million. Now AT&Ts coverage expands to Puerto Rico, U.S. Midwest, and the Soutwestern U.S.

Review of the Market for 10/26/09 - 10/30/09

The S&P 500 for this week went down in value to about 1,036. On Monday of this week it fell 13 points, or 1.2%. The index for Tuesday rose 3 points, or 0.3%. On Wednesday the index fell 21 points, or 2%. The index on Thursday rose 23 points, or 2.3%, which was its biggest gain in one day as of July 23rd. The index on Friday fell 30 points, or 3.0%.

The DJIA for this week went down in value to about 9,712. The index for Monday fell 104 points, or 1%. The index for Tuesday rose 14 points, or 0.1%. The index for Wednesday lost 119 points, or 1.2%, to close at 9,762.69. The index for Thursday gained around 200 points, or 2%, it was the biggest day since July 15th. It came exactly 80 years after the Wall Streets crash in 1929. The index for Friday lost about 250 points, or 2.5%, it was the Dow's biggest one day sell off since April 20th.

The NASDAQ for this week went down in value to about 2,045. The index for Monday 13 points, or 0.3%. The index for Tuesday lost 26 points, or 1.2%. The index for Wednesday fell 56 points, or 2.7%. The index for Thursday rose 38 points, or 1.8%. Its biggest one day gain in about a month. The index for Friday lost 52 points, or 2.5%.

Review on our portfolio 10/26/09-10/03-09

For "Why you picked to purchase or sell the stock you did this week. Stock dividends declared or splits that occurred to the stock you own.". We for this week did not purchase or sell any stock we currently have. We were also charged no commission for the fact of us not buying/selling any of our current stock. Our portfolio on the other hand did gain around 100 spots in the ranking system.

Market Review for 10/19/09 - 10/23/09

NASDAQ:

Another fluctuating week for NASDAQ with a large drop to 2150.73 on the 21st. The next day it jumped up 15 points which was somewhat of a difference only to drop 11 points the last day for the week.

DJIA:

The DJIA for this week was pretty average between the 10,000 mark. It was at the 10,000 point on Monday only to drop to 9949.3604 on Wednesday. Then the next day it spiked to 10,081.3096 and once again dropped below the 10,000 mark to 9972.1797.

S&P 500:

S&P did similar things that DOW and NASDAQ did but on a smaller scale. It dropped to 1081.40 on Wednesday only to rise on Thursday and drop Friday.

Competitors 10/19/09-10/23/09

I will be comparing "Take two" to some of it's competitors on stock exchange for this blog. Activision Blizzard compared to Take two, Take two in early August was at a steady flow of stock exchange, until it had a spike at August 3rd. Going into August, Take two kept rising, but on August 17th they had a big dip on the charts, and once again they rose back up about another 10%. While on there up's and downs between August 31st, and September 14th. Around September 17th, the release of, Gears of war 2, Half-life2 came out and they had a great big spike going up another 15-20% stock exchange, highest this year for there company. Blizzard on the other hand, they had about the same level of exchange rate as "Take two" in August. But on August 10th they had a very big spike on exchange rate, moving up 10%, but going back down not to long after. On August 16th, they had another spike on stock exchange going back up around 8%, and then they started a down fall on August 18th crashing and crashing. Until September 19th, they began to rise back up with there statements on moving back to the "game counsel" as well as speak of the new "Diablo3" and "World of warcraft cataclysm expansion". They sank back down on October 5th, but rose up about 15% on October 12th, but then they started crashing up until today.

Company Article: 10/19/09-10/23/09

I reviewed an article on Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard is coming out with a new game that is supposed to be released this fall called Band Hero which will be on the platforms; Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, and Nintendo DS Lite. The game features a lot of number 1 hits from a lot of different bands. In Band Hero you are able to mix and match the way you play with either; four singers. guitarists, bassists, and drummers. You can also sing together in the new karaoke-style sing-along mode. The game also lets you import songs from; Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, and Guitar Hero World Tour. The first week that Band Hero is on the shelves, Activision is planning to have 69 songs available for the Wii, Xbox 360, and the PS3. The platforms will all have a different amount of gamerscore points or money that they will have to pay to get the songs. You can also import some songs from Band Hero to Guitar Hero 5 for a certain price depending on the platform. You can also play previously purchased songs for the Guitar Hero franchise on Band Hero, for up to 300 tracks. Some of the many songs for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 versions of the game are; The All American Rejects-"Dirty Little Secret", Big Country-"In a Big Country", Carl Douglas-" Kung Fu Fighting", Dashboard Confessional-"Hands Down", Evanescence-"Bring Me To Life", Fall Out Boy-"Sugar, We're Goin' Down", Finger Eleven-"Paralyzer", Hinder-"Lips Of An Angel", Maroon 5-"She Will Be Loved", Papa Roach-"Lifeline", Poison-"Every Rose Has Its Thorn", Taylor Swift-"Love Story", and there are many more. Some of the songs for the DS Lite version are; The All American Rejects-"Believe", Black Eyed Peas-"Lets Get It Started", Evanescence-"Call Me When You're Sober", Fall Out Boy-"Thnks Fr Th Mmrs", Queen-"Crazy Little Thing Called Love", Weezer-"Troublemaker", and more.

competitors

For my blog, "How did the competitors do this week compared to the stock you held", i will be going with Microsoft, and telling you how well there competitors did compared to them. Microsoft's first competitor "Google", and there second competitor, "IBM" were close when coming in for stock exchange etc. Microsoft, was the worst out of the three when coming in for exchange, in later November 2008, Microsoft looked like it was doing pretty good until it hit a low and sunk hard right before December. But the first month or so into December, Microsoft rose to it's original level on exchange rate, and after that it just about hit rock bottom in March 2009. But once again rose back up to only rise. IBM compared to Microsoft now, IBM had just about the same level on exchange as Microsoft, but was only rising when Microsoft was falling up and down. But in July 2009, they had a big drop that sunk pretty bad, but they came back and rose again, and in October 09, while Microsoft was on the rise, they began to fall and fall.....Google was to a rough start, they were dropping worse then both Microsoft and IBM. But near December they began to rise back up like Microsoft did. They were only on the rise while Microsoft as well as IBM both had there up's and downs. In October 09, they had a big strike and rose higher then both of Microsoft's competitors. The economy had just about the same rise and drop rate as both Microsoft and IBM.

Profile: 10/19/09 - 10/23/09

For the week of Monday, October 19th, 2009 through Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Marc, Colton, and I bought and sold the following stocks; bought 150 shares of Take Two Interactive Softwares, bought 250 shares of THQ Inc., bought 100 shares of Microsoft, bought 100 shares of CNOOC LTD ADS, bought 500 shares of Activision-Blizzard, bought 100 shares of Verizon, bought 100 shares of Motorola, we sold 100 shares of CNOOC LTD ADS, bought 100 shares of Walgreens, bought 100 shares of Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, bought 100 shares of Honda Motor Company Inc., bought 100 shares of Best Buy, sold 100 shares of Walgreens. We chose to buy because we thought that they would earn us quite a bit of money. We sold the two stocks that we did because they were bringing us down in total equity. We paid a total fees and commission for this week of $1,427.31. Our net amount for this week went down $32,994.31. We currently have a total of $67,098.85. We have a total equity at the moment of $98,183.95.

Review of Markets for the week of 10/12 - 10/16

S&P 500

The S&P for the week was much improved from last week with an average index value of 1211.128.

DJIA:

The Dow average is just under the 10,000 mark with an index value of 9966.31408

Company Article: 10/12/09-10/16/09

The company Microsoft enlisted the help of Family Guy creator and Fox networks to help them launch Windows 7. The Family Guy episode that will feature Windows 7 will air on November, 8th 2009 at 8:30 EST and PST. They are hoping that having Family Guy help releases Windows 7 will be better then having Jerry Seinfeld help release Windows Vista. Fox is hoping their target audience of Family Guy will do wonders for the sales of Windows 7. After the episode airs, Fox and Microsoft are going on a 12-week college tour that will give college students the chance to try out Windows 7.

Portfolio: 10/12/09-10/16/09

For the week of October, 12th through October, 16th we did not buy any stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. As we did not buy anything our amount of money was increasing because of the interest it was gaining. The value of our portfolio was around $100,005.00 for this week.

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