Virtual Stock Trading Journal

Guide Questions
ACC 212 – Financial Markets Final Requirement
( Based on VTrade / Investagrams Platform )

For Codes: 759, 737, 720 and 711 only

DEADLINES:
OCTOBER 22, 2019 [Tuesday] @ 11:59 PM (Cut-off for Stock Trading)
OCTOBER 23, 2019 [Wednesday] @ 12:00 NN (Submission of Trading Journal)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Strictly to be submitted via Blackboard. Should you have any issue with your Blackboard/LMS
account, kindly have it settled and fixed with CCC (College of Computing Education). Document should be in WORD file,
and formatted as Arial 12, double spacing. Non-compliance to the aforementioned, would result to deduction of points.

Introduction (10 points):

 What is/are your expectations on this requirement?
 What is your investment philosophy/strategy upon fulfilling the required activity?
 How does your risk tolerance affect your buying and selling decisions?
 How is the stock market doing and situated today?

Research on Investment Strategies and Companies (10 points):

 What are your initial expectations for your purchased stocks?
 Cite at least three (3) investment strategies and briefly describe each strategy.
 Attach in the Appendix brief corporation/company research about the stocks you have bought, plus
their market performance for the past three (3) years.

Purchase / Sale of Stocks (25 points + 5 points to the highest earner)

Note: Sample topics are given below, and kindly include all relevant information that explains your purchase/sale
decision.
 Why did you choose the stocks you purchased? Explain how your research about the stocks you bought,
and significant amount of the said stocks from specific companies affected your buying decisions.
 Would you classify your stocks as aggressive or conservative?
 What role did the industry play in picking your stocks?
 Did any media news play a role in your purchases?
 What was your best performing stock and least performing stocks and what is your total return on
investment?
 Did you sell any stock during the game? If so, what made you sell the stocks?

Overall Summary (20 points):

 What is the overall impact of this activity to you and what are the lessons that you learned?
 How much money did you make or lose, and how much is your return on investment? Provide a table
of how much you bought your stocks for, how much you earned, and your ROI/Total holding period
return (capital gains and dividend yield) percentage for each stock you bought.
 What would you do differently next time to be more successful with your investments?
 What did you enjoy about the requirement?

Appendix (5 points):
 Attach your portfolio holdings, your order history, and three (3)-year stock chart of each company that
you were able to buy and sell in relation to their issued stocks (3 companies each page).