Homework Question: Investing in the Stock Market?

For my finance class, I have to create a portfolio where I have $100,000 to invest in 9 companies plus I have to buy gold (mandatory). I am utterly clueless when it comes to the stock market.

Question: What nine companies would you invest in and how much would you invest in each company? If possible, can you please give me the company name, the symbol (so that I can find it), and how much you would invest? I have to create this portfolio and track it for the next month and see how much I earn or lose.

Thank you to anyone who can help me.

Hi pal

to chose a company for investing is not as hard as it sounds, you can actually do it by yourself, let me give you a specific advice about it...

go to yahoo finance and choose the graphics...

put 2 simple moving averages SMA one at 10 and other at 25.

ad use the following tip to remember...

FAST

F= Fresh cross when the 2 SMA make and x
A= angle try to find an angle in the middle of 45 and 90 degrees
S= separation the most separated is the better
T= is about the investment horizon

you can apply this to any company, try to make it yourself, i bet you can do it very well.

you can also put a company name in yahoo finance and get their symbol.

Try to invest in companies you like and know, its easier.

and about companies i can give you a pair like>

yhoo = yahoo
sbux = Starbucks
aapl = apple
goog = google
msft = Microsoft
dna = genetech
xray = dentsply
twx = time warner
mot = motorola

the time is very important, try to find a cool time to enter a stock

hope you find this help-full, i ll include you a pair of pages in the source where you can find some help full resources.

you can also send me a mesage or mail for more details, i've been investing for a while

have a nice day and enjoy your inversions

I can't tell you exactly what nine stocks to buy, but the key is to diversify. Meaning buy stock from all industry sectors. Retail, Technology, Pharmaceuticals, so on and so on. I suggest you start with a couple of the Dow Jones Industrial avg. companies to invest in.

http://www.macroaxis.com/ if you go to that link you can make a portfolio of those nine companies for free and see how the perform you can actually make a 20 company portfolio and then eliminate the ones that do not perform. its so great you will impress your professor if not get a free lunch from him.

Gold, buy and hold especially now in the loom of a US recession

http://www.thinkorswim

These are the best program with $100,000 paper money, you can learn fast but I can't promise you that you be a pro.

Occidental Petroleum (symbol: OXY)
They explore and produce oil. If gas prices keep going up, their stock prices will follow. I am not sure if it will move much in one month though.

Tata Motors (symbol: TTM)
They are an Indian automobile manufacturer. Their $2500 is schedule to go on sale this year in India. The car, which is named Nano, is creating a lot of buzz in India because it is the cheapest new car ever. However, I am pretty sure this one won't move much in the next 30 days.

If I was not a broke college student, these two are where I would put money.