Stock Track Simulation Paper

The HEB School of Business stock track simulation that we went through in class was a great learning experience. It taught all members of the class how to actually make trades, and it identified the risk and rewards that correlate with these trades. Throughout this simulation each member of the class was given $1,000,000 to invest in whatever stocks they wanted to. The Stock Track simulation stretched from September 1st through November 13th to see how much money each member of the class could make in the stock market. Each member also used various strategies to try to gain an advantage over the other members of the class. Throughout this essay I will discuss some of my strategies and how they benefitted me, also I will discuss what all I learned while going through the simulation. Throughout the time allotted for the simulation I grew my account balance from $1,000,000 to 1,030,314.61 to have a profit of $30,314.61 in the short time that we were given. Which is a great return of 3.03%. This return is a strong return based off the fact that a savings account won’t give you more than a .75% return annually. In the simulation I profited over $30,000 in just 34 trades. Which helped me invest in a broad selection of items to make sure that if a certain part of the market were …show more content…
I believe that I didn’t have as great of a return on my portfolio because I was investing in smaller stocks that I thought would make a lot more of a return. Most of these smaller stocks did have a great return and then there were others that ended up costing me in the long run. That is why buying the S&P 500 stock would have been a better choice because you are buying the whole market and if for the most part and it is increasing then you will have a positive return on your investment. In the case of the stock track the market did very well increasing the S&P 500 by