The objective of this report is to gain experience on two different investment strategies to determine the best performance and ease of learning. The investment strategies or trading methods being simulated for this report is comprised of the Buy & Hold strategy and Swing Trading strategy. Each investment strategy will be separately utilized in a stock market simulation during a 4-week period. The simulations would have a base $100,000 to start building the investment portfolio. Each investment strategy would comprise of identical portfolios due to the selected companies for use in both stock market analysis. The final simulation results returned – 6.1% (gain) for the Buy and Hold strategy and – 0.25% (gain) for the Swing Trading strategy, respectively. The final analysis of the simulation concludes based on profits that the Buy and Hold strategy preformed finically better than the Swing Trading strategy.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Simantirakis, Matheos

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Industry
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-082023-201058
• 112901

Keyword

• Trading
• Swing trading
• Stock Market Simulations
• Buy and Hold trading
• Stock Market
• Investing

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2023

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education

Date created

• 2023-08-20

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-082023-201058

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-09-15