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Transcript: This began my downfall. I started to make some big mistakes the next few days. I sold EVERYTHING from the previous days just because they were going down. I didn't even wait for them to go back up. It's not good for your revenues to constantly sell the stocks as soon as you get them. This day, I bought Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3x Shares (NUGT) which was a gold company that was doing extremely well because Gold stocks were doing well after the election. I invested a LOT in this, and thought I was doing decent. AMAZON Today was the first day on stocks I tested out the "buy and hold" method, even though it's not always advisable. I only had two stocks at this point - Toyota Motor Corp (TM) and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO). I didn't trade anything, sell anything, because those two were still making profits from the past few days and CSCO was projected to make more. They had bought a new network and a cloud-tech firm, so their earnings went up with this as well. Things were starting to look better for me. I took the advice of Mad Money's Jim Cramer on this one. On this day, it was one of his top picks that day. He was bullish on this stock as Obama had just been elected into his second term and the stock was bringing in the goods. COMPANY HISTORY INTRO PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) was my next stock pick. PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational food and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to a broader range of food and beverage brands, the largest of which include an acquisition of Tropicana in 1998 and a merger with Quaker Oats in 2001—which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio. AMAZON (cont.) Major fluctuations are dramatic changes in the stock market. A lot happened over the next few weeks to my portfolio. My fourth pick was Walmart (WMT). Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., branded as Walmart, is an American multinational retailer corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's third largest public corporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2012. It is also the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and is the largest retailer in the world. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. I chose Walmart (WMT) as my fourth stock because they had begun prepping for holiday and Black Friday spending early. They had stocked up on goods that their consumers want. Online shopping was at an all time high on November 8th, and Walmart was destined to get a lot of traffic because of this. These were the days I was seeing how well the buy and hold method actually worked. Although I wasn't doing as terrible as I was the first few days, I wasn't making much profits not buying anything new. So on the last day, November 29th, I decided it was best to add two new stocks to the equation. I bought one I had before, Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Best Buy (BBY). I bought these two because wewere just coming off the hinges of Black Fridayand Cyber Monday and the traffic to these two were insane. What I'd Like To Learn I probably sold half of the stocks I had bought yesterday today. This marked an important day for me, however, because it's the day I bought Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), and I haven't sold it to this day, because it's very consistent and it's fluctuations aren't dramatic. I always rely on CSCO to make me money. The reason I bought it this day was because it was listed as a Midday Mover on CNBC. To start the project, I picked five stocks to get my portfolio started. The first stock I chose was Amazon (AMZN). Wal-Mart Inc. (cont.) The Final Day I learned a lot from the Stock Market game. I learned that stocks really test your patience. You have to play the waiting game a lot and it's aggravating and you have to know how to deal with that. I learned the term "bullish" which means to be optimistic about a stock. Also, I learned not to trust others who are bullish about a certain stock, and go with what you feel is right. Don't buy stocks then sell them right away. If I had the chance to do this again, there's a lot I would do differently. But it definitely was a cool experience. INTRO Date: 11/19/12 Amazon.com is a Fortune 500 e-commerce company founded in Seattle, WA. Amazon was one of the first big companies to sell goods over the Internet. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, and was launched in 1995. They started out as an online bookstore and then quickly diversified by adding other items, such as VHS tapes and DVDs, music CDs, software, video games, electronics,
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