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How do you pick a winning stock? There is no easy answer. Stocks are not guaranteed to always go up in value. We will, however, be researching stocks that we think might be interesting to us. Many people pick stocks based on company names or reputations, as well as some sophisticated strategies that are beyond the scope of this class.... Your assignment is to try to pick winning stocks based on whatever logical assumptions you can research....see my notes for some suggestions.
Proposed Lesson sequence (subject to change and enhancement)
See some of the essential questions for this unit Browse the suggested vocabulary list for important terms
Check the stock price Use
Make a Company Stock Sheet Project You will hand in three stock sheets for your project. You may actually submit less if you discuss your concerns about the project with me first. I would prefer that you do fewer stock sheets, but a terrific job on the ones you submit. Please do not do the following companies, as we have discussed them in class or I have used them as samples:
You may pick any publicly traded company, that sells for less than $1000 per share on the following stock exchanges:
Most of the information you need to gather is at Yahoo Finance including:
General Research Sources for Stocks
Next project: Working With Excel - Stock Portfolios & Charts
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The Introductory Material 
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Your
stock must be publicly traded and be listed on either the U.S. NYSE, AMEX or NASDAQ exchanges.
It cannot be an 'index fund', 'option', or foreign stock.
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