Pretend that you have $10,000 to invest for fourteen weeks. You are to invest this money in stocks or mutual funds and to track your investments on a weekly basis for thirteen weeks (see the schedule for due date) Pick five different stocks or funds to follow.

Write a report on

• Why you selected the investments you did

• Whether any noteworthy company results, news events, or economic events impacted your investments during this period (show your gains or losses for the period)

• How your investments performance compared with the performance of the S&P 500 index during this period

• Your tracking of the following three stock market indexes:

  • Dow Jones Industrial Average

  • S&P 500 stock index

  • Russell 2000 index for small caps

Please present your weekly results for each stock in a grid/table. Please report on each investment separately as you answer the questions above.

Your paper should start with an introduction and end with a conclusion.

• The conclusion should include:
• What you have learned from this assignment?
• What would you differently?
• What do you continue to invest in the same investment for the long term given your short term results?
• How successful were your chosen investment in the previous four quarters and four years?
• Would you change your investment given the results of the previous quarters and years?