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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