Lessons Learned from managing a Personal Stock Portfolio:

This report is going to talk about every aspect of the stock market game that I recently finished participating in with this Intro to Business class. It will state the good and bad times I experienced doing this project, my most and least successful trades, the challenging and easy activities that went along with this project, improvements, and most importantly, what I learned from taking part in this game. 

First, I would like to talk about the good trades, the bad trades, and the trades that were just a waste of making. 

The greater part of my stock portfolio was made up of technology stocks, which actually, I regret now. The majority of these stocks went way down towards the end of the game, including reliance., TCS, and Infosys Inc. This surprised me because I believed that these stocks would do the best. 

Another group of stocks that didn’t do well for me are the goods-selling companies, including Tata consumer, dmart Inc. future Inc., and other Stores. 

On the other hand, my consumer-good type stocks did the best overall. They provided me with a reasonably good profit. One example is Relaince. which gave me a 21% rate of return. I think that’s pretty darn good! 

The one stock that I am glad I invested in is Tata power. I invested in this stock mainly because it had a steady stock chart, and I figured it would give me a fairly reasonable profit, but boy was I surprised when I found that at the end of the game, I had an 18% profit. This was just a lucky trade I made, and the fact that I didn’t sell it when it went down a little helped quite a bit tredent is another example of a lucky trade, which provided me with a 24% rate of return! 

There were a few stocks that were just a waste of investing in because they didn’t provide me with either a high gain or loss. An example of this would be amaron, which I held on to for approximately eight days, and in all that time, gave me a five-cent profit! 

The most challenging part of this project was probably all the research that had to be done. I knew that to be a smart investor, this was required, but sometimes, it was just so time-consuming, that it was difficult not just to type in a few random letters in the buy box. 

There were a lot more things to enjoy in this project, including learning a lot, the different activities to go along with the game, and the thrill when one of your stocks go up. That experience makes you feel like the smartest person in the world and gives you the confidence that you can succeed in investing. 

On the contrary, it isn’t the greatest thing to find that one of your stocks has gone down 10% in one day. When that happens, you ask yourself what did I do wrong¡¨, and you question your strategies. Thankfully, that didn’t happen a lot for me in this project. 

There are a few improvements that I would like to suggest making this project a little better. One thing is to give the students a little more time in class to go on the computers and invest. It gives them a chance to discuss with their friends how they’re doing, helpful tips, and compare their portfolios. One thing that could be eliminated is the need to print out the profiles of every single company you invest in. I feel that this is maybe a waste of paper, because we never looked at them in class, or did anything with them. I think it would be a lot easier, and more conservative, to just go to the company’s profile online if you needed to see it. Those are the only things I see that could be improved. 

I think the most important thing I learned was realizing how easy it is to invest, but in contrast, how easily you can lose a lot of money in a very short period. I learned that investing wisely is the key, and being impatient doesn’t work. I also changed my views that you had to be a rocket scientist to invest. Anyone can, as long as they know to do so.  

In conclusion, this project has taught me that investing in the stock market can be a fun, challenging, and learning experience. Investing correctly involves a lot of knowledge, research, and just a bit of luck. I applaud your decision to make this a project, and I believe it is by far one of the most interesting and informational projects I have ever done.