Friday, September 30, 2011

Stocks

I choose to trade 200 Hershey’s stock. Each stock was worth $58.74. I’m estimating by the end of October after Halloween it’ll be worth $70.00. I bought it because Halloween is coming up and they hand out so much candy. Its main competitor is Kraft foods, but I decided to go with Hershey’s because it stocks spiked more at the end of October than the other competitors.
I invested this week in 134 shares for $63.85 Schlumberger that specializes in extracting minerals and oil trading. I decided to invest in it because my brother just got hired there with many other employers and I thought if they just invested in more employees they must be making money or getting ready to make a large profit. Their leading competitor Baker Hughes but they were down 2.16 while Schlumberger is down 1.29. It will be worth $61.00 by the end of this weekend because not that many people need to travel since it’s not a holiday.

3 comments:

  1. hey brah. So I think this is a wonderful start. You didn't mention anything about the 52-week range though. You might want to include that. I agree with the Halloween thing, good idea. Maybe include more vocab.
    P.S. Baker Hughes? Yeah. That's my grandpappy.

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  2. I liked your reason for buying into this stock. You used a catalyst to describe why you think the price will go up which is using good vocab to help better understand why. I also liked the information you posted about Hershey's competitors. I also thought it was good how you predicted how much you thought the price would go up by.

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  3. I really like how you explained why you bought the stocks that you did. I would advice that you include the 52 week information in it so that people can see how good the stock is doing or how bad it is doing.

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