Final+Checkpoint+Reflection+and+Summary+Prompts

__ Portfolio Summary and Reflection Prompts __

These writing prompts are intended to help get you started on your final summary/reflection. These are some of the topics or issues I am looking for and want you to address.

1. What companies did you invest in and why? (you do not necessarily have to list every company you invested in. You can discuss industries as well, for example if you purchased Wal-Mart, Abercrombie and Fitch and The Buckle you may discuss the retail industry)

2. What was your overall stock strategy?

3. Did your stock strategy work or turn out the way you planned?

4. Did you do research on your companies before investing? Why or why not and what impact did that have on your results?

5.Do you feel you have a good understand of how the stock market works, how people buy stocks, and why they buy stock?

6. How easy was it to do research and find information online about the companies you worked on and what resources did you use?

7. Did you find using an online program helpful in trading and tracking your stocks online?

8.Did you use the class wiki for your stock project? Did you find using the wiki to access the information helpful?

9. Did you like the stock project? Why or why not?

10. Did it motivate you that you could see where you ranked against other in the class online?

11. If you had to do this project over again, what would you do differently?

12. Did you find it helpful to work with a partner or in hindsight would you have worked alone?

Helpful hints: Do not use MLA format, just a simple title, will do. For example: Final Portfolio Reflection will do. Name and Hour Double Space 1 inch margins Times New Roman font Minimum of 1 page.