START TOTAL: 100,000; END TOTAL: 106,913.74

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Starting Stock Purchases

Company Symbol Quantity Cost at Buying

Total Cost w/ Tran. Fee

Wal-mart WMT 300 $54.56 $16,353

Disney DIS 400 $22.46 $8,969

Best Buy BBY 300 $24.31 $7,278

Kraft KFT 200 $26.74 $5,333

Mastercard MA 400 $136.99 $54,781

Money Left: $7,286

Reasons Why

Wal-mart: Christmas shopping

Disney: vacation time near

Best Buy: Christmas shopping, more electronics

Kraft: cheap food, need ‘cuz economy bad (more of a longer term stock)

Mastercard: Christmas shopping, put most amount of money in, just had a drop

Selling

Best Buy: sold all 300 at $26.87, gain of $2.56 a share, total gain of $768, or 11%

Mastercard: sold 200 at $143.62, gain of $6.63 a share, total gain of $1326, or 5%

Mastercard, again: sold 200 at $148.81, gain of $11.82 a share, total gain of $2364, or 9%

Reasons Why

Best Buy: had just gone up, started to dropMastercard (first time): just started to go up,

needed the money, left moreMastercar (second time): climbed very, very

steeply; started to drop

Buying Again

Wal-mart, Disney, and Kraft leftBought 300 McDonald’s at $61.29 a share,

total cost $18387Bought 300 Nike at $52.69 a share, total cost

$15807Bought 300 UPS at $52.78 a share, total cost

$15834

Reasons Why

McDonald’s had just had a drop, cheap foodNike sells basketball shoes and it’s basketball

season, an international company = more customers

UPS is a large postal service, and there are many mailings around Christmas

Final Companies

Wal-martDisneyKraftMcDonald’sNikeUPS

Change??

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