Finance Fun
In late February, the finance class I’m taking at Atkinson Graduate School of Management(Willamette) started a stock market simulation. I have learned a lot and enjoyed this simulation extensively. The first day I acted on a dumb, uneducated guess on a few stocks that had risen over 5% that day. Within a week, I had lost almost $100,000 of my initial $1,000,000. Since then, I have been reading a good amount(and listening to my finance professor) and am now profitable over 25%. Over that same period the S&P is up 9% and overall the market is up almost 500 points. It has been a good time for investors even with joblessness and the threat of Greece’s economy failing. Now of course it is much easier investing fake dollars and as my professor said, “It takes a large fortune to make a small one.” I look forward to earning my spot in our economy and having the ability to invest my real money.
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