stock market project
...ose to buy 59 stocks of Apple, is because of the iPod. No matter how many people have them, people are just going to keep buying them. And because of the iPod, people have looked at their computers and laptops a lot more also. Not to mention the look of them is very appealing to the eye. I figured that this business would keep going up, which it did. The reasons I bought Best Buy, and Gap was the same. I shop at both these stores, and know that they both have good products to offer. Disney and McDonald’s were simply names of big companies that I happened to know because of their popularity. I had hoped that they would do well in the stock market. When the time came for me to sell my stocks, I started to feel a little bit of anger when I saw that I had lost money in three out of five of my stocks. With McDonald’s I lost $41.30 over the period of a month. Disney lost me $73.16, and Best Buy gave me the worst loss of $229.00. I was some what discouraged until I saw that Apple had proven me right with a gain of $762.28. Gap also gave me a small gain of $1.18. When I added up all these numbers I found myself with a total gain of $420.00. I was very pleased to see that overall ...