In this Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP), the group conducted stock market simulations over a five-week period, using two different trading strategies, position trading and swing trading, as well as a buy and hold strategy that was used as a control for comparison. Each member researched different trading strategies and companies with stock available to trade on the market and worked together to choose which companies were used throughout the simulation. Each member, using their selected trading strategy, invested $100,000 in the companies previously selected. The returns of the three trading strategies were: position trading: -3.31%, swing trading: -7.21%, and the buy and hold method: -11.36%. The broad market (measured by S & P 500) had a 6.26% decline. Experiences learned in the project will be very valuable for future investments.

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Creator

• Paszczuk, Nicholas
• Calomo, Joseph

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-072422-190248
• 71021

Keyword

• Stock Market
• Research
• Simulation

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2022

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not Specified

Date created

• 2022-07-24

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-072422-190248

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2022-12-20