The Business Department of St. Gerald’s College, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
Please take your online exam for The Stock Market module. This exam is for the 4A5 class for Module 2.
Your mark is based on your first attempt. The exam is 80% of the total marks. 20% is for your work in class during the module.
You will receive your mark at the end of the exam. Do print your Certificate as well.
You can enter the St. Gerald’s Stock Competition from today (December 19th).
The competition ends on March 16th 2012 and the winner will receive a €50 voucher.
Thanks to Robert Comer in TY for setting up the competition on MarketWatch.com
Follow these instructions to join the game:
Please note: If you used the Marketwatch.com website before (e.g., played in a previous school competition), login using the same user account as before.
Best of luck and follow all the updates on our Facebook page!
Congrats to Robert Comer (4A4) on winning the Stock Competition in Module 1 with a total profit of $133,779 (a return of 13.78% in just 6 weeks).
There were some big changes on the leaderboard in the last few days of trading due to volatility in world stock markets.
In order to see how well you have done, you can compare your total return to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Our competition started on 15/09 and ended on 27/10. During that period, the Dow Jones increased by 8.55%
You should compare your percentage total return to this 8.55%. Both Robert and Ronan Jennings had a total return that beat the Dow Jones. The majority of professional traders do not achieve this!
I hope you enjoyed the module. There will be a school Stock Competition next term (with prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd), so keep checking sgcbusiness.com for more details.
What did you think of the stock competition? Post your opinions in the Comments section on this post.
The stock market competition for 4A4 starts on Thursday September 15th.
To join the competition:
Once you have successfully created a user account with MarketWatch, log into the site and then click on Find a Game.
The name of the Game is TY Stock Market M1. Enter the game name in the Search box.
You will be asked for a password to join the game.
This has been sent to your Google Apps email account.
Now you are ready to start trading in stocks on the NYSE.
This is the link to log into the game each day. Add it to your favourites on your home computer.
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The third sgcbusiness.com Stock Competition is now open for registration.
The competition starts on Wednesday March 17th and ends on Monday May 17th.
What are the rules?
How do you enter?
What are the prizes?Cash prizes for the top 3 traders.
1st Place: €25
2nd Place: €15
3rd Place: €10
It’s that easy. Let’s see can anyone beat the winner of last year’s competition who made a profit of $86,774.
Post any questions you have in the Comments section of this post or email vse [at] geralds [dot] ie
Well done to Damian Kopyto and Peter Gordon in the VSE Competition.
Damian is the overall winner with a total return of 11.5% and Peter is the top trader from 4A6 with a total return of 0.96%.
Ciolan Mellotte (+4.5%) and Cian O’Brien (+2.54%) were second and third respectively.
Of the thirty-five who took part in the competition, fifteen achieved a return greater than the market. The DJIA actually fell by 1.81% during our competition, so if you made a return better than -1.81%, you have “beaten the market“.
Well done to all the TY students from 4A3 & 4A6 who took part in the Module 1 Stock Competition.
In this module, we used the Virtual Stock Exchange to trade in stocks on the NYSE. Each student started with $1,000,000 and had to build a portfolio of stocks over a four week period.
Ryan was the overall winner with a final profit of $117, 631. Shane from 4A3 was second (+$114,637) and Jack was the top trader from 4A6 with a total profit of $83,791.
How well did both classes do overall?
In order to assess how well each trader did, you have to compare the return on each portfolio to the “market return” i.e. how did the DJIA do over the term of the competition.
During our competition, the Dow Jones increased by 0.61%. Just under half of all students in the competition achieved a return greater than +0.61%.
Over half of all students beat the market return.
That’s a very good performance.
We will be starting a school-wide competition in January 2010 with some prizes to be won.
Barry in TY is the winner of the second sgcbusiness.com Stock Competition and wins his own copy of Warren Buffett’s biography.
In what was a very close competition, Barry made an overall profit of $86,774 while Ahmed (TY) was second with a profit of $61,507.
The lead changed several times in the last few days of trading with Matthew (TY) leading for several days until the last week of the competition.
Thanks to all those who entered. We will be running a bigger competition next year.
This online survey is to be completed by all students in 4A6.
Click here to complete the module evaluation.
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