This Interactive Qualifying Project is a six-week simulation exploring different trading strategies to compare two methods and determine which one is better. The two strategies used were Buy and Hold, and Swing Trading. Starting with $100,000 USD in cash for each simulation, eight companies were selected to be used for the simulation. At the end of the simulation, the Buy and Hold simulation ended with a 0.5% loss, while the Swing Trading simulation ended with a 6.8% profit. Over the period the simulation, the S&P 500 index rose 2.69%. The results suggest that Swing Trading is a stronger strategy than Buy and Hold method, beating the market by a decent margin. This project provided valuable trading insight to the participant to be used in future investments.

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Creator

• Chang, Jonathon

Subject

• Industry
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-081124-142920
• 123972

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2024

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2024-08-11

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-081124-142920

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Zuletzt geändert

• 2024-09-19