Heather's Review

Over the past 10 weeks I contributed to the group by giving my group input as to what companies we should invest in. We only had invested in Apple and Microsoft for most of the Stock Market Game, but towards the end I helped her decide whether or not we should invest in Revlon and Hershey. I also helped to organize who would do what blog posts each week.

I have gained a greater sense of knowledge about the stock market and how to invest over the course of 10 weeks. I have learned the importance of investing in stocks for long and short periods of time and how to predict each one's success. I have also learned that it is important to keep a diverse portfolio when striving for low-risk investments.

I feel that throughout the Stock Market Game I have learned so much. If I were to have this experience again I would like to have a better understanding of how short selling works. There was just a little confusion as to how to go about short selling a stock at the end of the 10 weeks.

I think the game was organized very well. There is really nothing I can complain about because I have learned so much. I enjoyed being able to blog about each article and the reviews of the portfolio. I was able to learn how to use blogger.com and on wikispaces, insert graphs and other tools to use as references.