The goal of this project is to gain a better understanding of stock trading using a seven-week stock market simulation. Real-time stock prices were used to make the simulation as realistic as possible. Two trading methods were tested: the Buy and Hold strategy and the Swing Trading strategy. Each portfolio had a starting investment of $100,000. The two strategies started with an identical portfolio. The returns of the simulations were 5.49% profit for the Buy and Hold strategy and 11.76% profit for the Swing Trading strategy, respectively. The total change in the S and P 500 index over the same seven-week period was 5.61% increase. The results from the simulations indicated that the Swing Trading strategy using technical analysis was more profitable than the Buy and Hold strategy and the overall market. This project provided the participants with trading experience that will benefit them in future investments.

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Creator

• Farquharson, Duncan

Subject

• Industry
• Computing
• Project-Based Learning
• Inclusion
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 112729
• E-project-081323-232606

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2023

Sponsor

• No Sponsor

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Date created

• 2023-08-13

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-081323-232606

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-08-22