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    of stock market game: Stated October 24, 2014; ended December 12, 2014 The total amount of money I ended with $4,927.07, minus $750 = $4,177.07 The number of pages therefore that I am required to write to receive full credit for the project: 8 pages Page 1 and 2: Personal Experience This was the very first time I enter a stock market game. Stock is a complex and complicated game, which require a great interest in it. Because of this was my first time I know about stock, it

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    The stock market was seen as the place to get rich in the 1920’s and everyone was investing in it. But the market was not as secure as many believed and as prices began to fall people panicked. The crash came within a few days with the sale of over sixteen million stocks. Too many people had invested in the market and they had invested too much of their money. They were too afraid to ride out the dipping prices. One the biggest problems leading to the depression was the policy of isolationism. The

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    Han Le P2 Stock Market Essay The due day of the assignment: January 12, 2015 The dates of stock market game: Stated October 24, 2014; ended December 12, 2014 The total amount of money I ended with $4,927.07, minus $750 = $4,177.07 The number of pages therefore that I am required to write to receive full credit for the project: 8 pages Part 1 - Page 1 and 2: Personal Experience This was the very first time I enter a stock market game. Stock is a complex and complicated game

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    After languishing for the past six years after the financial crisis, the Chinese stock markets suddenly took off last summer, becoming a cauldron of voracious buying, selling and spectacular profit-taking. In fact, drawn by the casino-like profits to be made in the boom, more and more small investors flocked to the thousands of brokerage houses that are now proliferating in every Chinese city in order to buy and sell while staring up at flickering electronic data boards charting the rise and fall

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    Roaring 20s” so profitable. The causes behind the collapse of the stock market can be blamed on the credit boom, buying on margin, the exuberance of investors, the weakness of the banking system, and having more supply than demand. The credit boom was created in the 1920s. Americans could buy on credit through the credo of ‘buy now, pay later’ practice. This credo took for granted that people could demonstrate their ability to pay in the future. As a result, consumer debt more than doubled

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    The Stock Market Crash of 1929 The stock market crash of 1929, which is considered most of the beginning of the U.S Great Depression, was an event that modeled the setting of the 1930s politically and socially. In the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent a popularity of stock trading. ("Stock Market Crash of 1929.") By the time it reached its peak in August 1929, the U.S economy wasn’t stable enough to handle the rapid expansion of the stock market. On October 29,which is Black Tuesday, thousands

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    The Stock Market crash of 1929 was devastating tragedy. “In a matter of hours, thousands saw their fortunes sink, turning previous paper millionaires into destitute paupers.” Back in the roaring twenties, the American society was seen as very prosperous. Many citizens were becoming millionaires each day due to their ‘promising’ Stock Market. What they didn’t see coming was the great fall of their economy because of a fault in their banking systems and stock market. Several diverse economic factors

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    The stock market movements are complex and difficult to predict with certainty. Strategies tend to work for a while before they fail terribly. Mathematical and statistical formulae don’t hold for long. This is mainly because some of the factors influencing the demand/supply of a stock cannot be quantified and may be poison distributed. Historical patterns are broken every now and then while fundamental data bears different effects on stocks at different times of an economic cycle. However, there

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    During the 1920s the United States boomed in stock markets. Millions of Americans began to purchase stocks, causing the market to dramatically increase in value. but for the economy so many Americans invested so much money into the stock markets it started to inflate in price. Which it worried shareholders, but the shareholders heard rumors that the stock markets were going to crash. Many were afraid that the stocks would be worthless. As stocks climbed in price many Americans believed that they

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    different than a savings strategy for retirement. One may choose to select stocks, bonds, or mutual funds for a savings strategy, however, my personal choice is to invest in bonds first, then mutual funds. My savings strategy selection process for an immediate want includes taking a portion of my income and storing it in a money market bank account to cover the expenses, since the interest rate changes daily for money market accounts. My savings strategy selection process for retirement includes

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