Strategy 4: Conservative-The Final Week Of Finance

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Register to read the introduction… Firstly, the strategy used was a conservative approach, meaning that the stocks that were to be invested in are less risky and profitable. The second reason this week was interesting since the market had been active for three weeks now and a conservative stock purchase could also be because you are more comfortable buying a stock that you’ve had time to watch and research for the past three weeks. There are two ways to look at being conservative - first is clearly finding and researching a stock that is trending upward. The second way to look at being conservative is waiting on a stock to see a trend, such as the STRT stock, as it had a positive trend for the past three weeks, which then involved myself investing in another twenty-five stocks for the final week. The major benefit to a conservative strategy is you’re playing it safe but you also have the ability to watch what had been a positive trend through the month and still stay conservative on possibly a risky stock but still have it create a profit. The final week saw the portfolio value increase by $121 to a positive final value of …show more content…
Throughout the month the top 3 stocks I had traded were STRT, YELP and UA. Although UA stumbled through the middle, it rebounded and created a nice profit. STRT is a security company, a riskier stock I found in the first week of trading and continued to trend upward the entire month. Yelp I found in part of researching for a more balanced portfolio, which returned my second best profit. Between these three stocks a profit of $345 was created.
The negative stocks- During the month long venture you go through, many ups and downs occur. The three worst stocks that I traded were FURX, AAPL and WWE. FURX is a pharmaceutical company that had been trending upward; it was a riskier stock and the day after I had bought 10 shares the value of the stock had dropped by more then 10 points, my first big loss. AAPL, I had researched Apple and knew it was a blue chip and had confidence that it would trend upward and any falls it took would rebound. Apple was to help balance out my portfolio, and it caused a terrible loss and required myself to sell the stock after just one week. Finally, WWE, I knew was also a riskier stock and during the start was turning into a nice profit but in the middle of the second week turned and began trending downward. Overall I lost a total of $261. Based on this analysis it shows I had more negative stocks then positive as my top three made more then my bottom three, but my middle stocks cause a negative loss of $62. Leading to an overall profit of $223 and a successful

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