This project was a sixteen-week stock market simulation using data from the real-life US stock market with a 15-minute delay. The main goal of this project was to achieve a basic grasp of how the stock market operates. This was done through research of the history of the stock market, looking at different investment strategies, and the simulations themselves. The second goal was to complete analysis during the simulations and change investments depending on the behavior and volatility of the stock market. Two different investment methods were used: Growth Investing, and Trend Investing. Stock simulations started at $100,000 each and varied on starting companies. At the end of the sixteen weeks the returns for the simulated growth strategy were ‒ 4.19% (loss), and the returns for the simulated trend strategy was better at ‒ 0.07966% (loss). The total return of the S&P 500 index was 9.79% (gain) over the same time period of the simulation. The results from the simulations showed that trend investing resulted in less loss compared to growth investing. Although neither strategy was able to have profitable results when compared to the S&P 500, this IQP project provided its participants with new trading experiences that will be able to benefit them in their future investments.

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Creator

• Barboza, Ezra
• Fredrich, Sage

Subject

• Learning
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 118205
• E-project-030324-194758

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2024

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Date created

• 2024-03-03

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-030324-194758

Rights statement

• In Copyright