This project is a six-week stock market simulation. This project aims to gain knowledge of the stock market and its trends to make a profit during the simulation successfully. Two trading methods were tested: Buy-and-hold and Day Trading. Stock simulations were performed with six selected companies as portfolios and a starting investment of $100,000.00. Each strategy started with an identical portfolio. The returns of the simulations were a 2.74% gain for the Buy-and-Hold strategy and a 0.72% gain for the Day Trading strategy, respectively. The total gain of the S&P 500 index was 4.13% throughout the six-week simulation. The simulation results indicated that the Buy-and-Hold strategy was more profitable than the Day Trading strategy. However, neither beat the market. This project provides the participants a trading experience that will benefit them in future investments.

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Creator

• Chen, Jiayang

Subject

• Learning
• Computing
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-082923-121904
• 113383

Keyword

• stock investment

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2023

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education

Date created

• 2023-08-29

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-082923-121904

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-09-15