The title of this assignment is Stocks Quest
This lesson will be all about the Stock Market. You will use some websites to search and find the appropriate answers. By finding the answers you will be learning about the Stock Market. The information you learn today should help you with the simulation.
Go to the website by clicking the following link:
http://stocksquest.coe.uga.edu/C001759/stocksquest/mystocks.htm
This takes you to the opening page of the Stock Market
Simulation website. At the top of the screen are lots of buttons to click
on. You are going to click on Stock Guide. Click Stock
Guide on the Stocks Quest Website. It looks like this:
You are now going to click basics. It looks like this:
On your own piece of paper you are now going to answer this questions:
Finish the sentence:
1. A stock represents ______ _________ ___ __ ___________.
2. The benefit of owning stock is that when the company makes money, ___ ___ ___.
3. Owning stock does not guarantee that you _____ _______.
4. Owning shares of a stock has its ______ ____ _______.
Click on Get Started on the top of the screen.
Look at the chart. Which investment will give you more money. The bank or the stocks.
Click $100/month on the left side of the screen.
If you invest $100 per month until you are 65 how much money will you have?
Click Strategies at the top of the screen. It looks like
this: 
What is the most commonly used investment strategy?
Look at the last sentence of the second paragraph. If you hold a stock for less than a year what is likely to happen?
What is the key to the Buy and Hold strategy?
Click on the shoes at the bottom to go to the
next page. 
12. What is the name of this strategy?
13. The strategy of short-term traders is to ___ _ ______ _____ __ ___ __ __ ____.
Go to the website http://www.younginvestor.com/teens/
Answer these Questions:
These answers will be found in
What is a stock?
What is a mutual fund?
Why does a company offer stock?