You are expected to set up an online portfolio using one of the many websites available such as www.bnn.ca, yahoo finance, google finance or even pen and paper. For many students keeping track of the assignment using excel and a pen and paper is the preferred method and usually the easiest.
Students are to start with $200,000 to invest and invest that money over a period of at least 4 weeks to a maximum of 12 weeks.
What you pass in:
1. A summary report of all your trades including the dates, amount and so forth. You will then note if you made money or lost
money. Then compare how you did during this period to how the stock market index did (percentage wise). So look at the
returns on the TSX, Dow Jones and the S&P 500.
2. A two three
page write up noting why you invested in your companies? Why you sold companies? Include in the writeup
what you learned about the companies that you invested in? What you learned about the stock market. How your
performance differed from the indexes and what you would do differently next time.
Other good websites to visit include:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globeinvestor/
investmentideas/
investoreducation/
chapter1whatarethefivebasicstepsininvesting/
article436525/
http://www.fool.com/
www.globeinvestor.com
http://beginnersinvest.about.com/cs/investinglessons/a/aaless1intro.htm