The Stock Market Project – Month 4
You know how I kept talking about doing analysis on my project based on my Computational Finance class? Not happening this month. Today was my first real day of administrative leave, and while I spent it productively (applying for jobs, watching lectures for a Coursera course, and going to the dog park), I barely managed to check the stock prices and to decide what new stock I wanted to invest in this month.
The new stock I decided on was Starbucks. I like what they do as a company, and they are a local company. The stock does run at almost $60 a share, so I was only able to pick up 4 shares, but that’s okay.
Otherwise, the only real news this month is that the stock market appears to be back down a bit from last month. I am still overall on the positive (a little less than $30), but that’s down from being up almost $60 last month. And three of my stocks seem to be converging on the same price point.
| Stock | Shares | Buy Price | Buy Value | Transaction Cost | Current Price | Current Value | Profit/(Loss) |
| LNVGY | 5 | 19.22 | 96.10 | 7.00 | 17.59 | 87.95 | (15.15) |
| EA | 9 | 13.77 | 123.93 | 7.00 | 17.37 | 156.33 | 25.40 |
| BKS | 9 | 13.40 | 120.60 | 7.00 | 17.07 | 153.63 | 26.03 |
| ZIP | 9 | 12.16 | 109.44 | 7.00 | 12.25 | 110.25 | (6.19) |
| GLUU | 25 | 2.29 | 57.25 | 7.00 | 2.87 | 71.75 | 7.50 |
| AMZN | 1 | 273.63 | 273.63 | 7.00 | 272.34 | 272.34 | (8.29) |
| SBUX | 4 | 58.56 | 234.24 | 7.00 | 58.56 | 234.24 | (7.00) |
| TOTAL | $ 1,015.19 | $ 1,086.49 | $ 22.30 |
Amazon and Starbucks aren’t on this graph because their prices are so much higher than the others.
It's not surprising that your biggest loser is your smallest-cap stock. Those will be your biggest swingers in any market. I'm surprised by the EA pick, but you nailed it by buying when the news was most horrible. That's a company with a CEO swap, just won Worst Company in the Consumerist poll and angered gamers with the botched SimCity release. Way to catch it at the bottom!
I don't know how much that can be credited with following news or the fact that I have friends who work in the gaming industry (including one who used to work for EA), so I hear things.