The STOCK MARKET GAME™ JOHN HANCOCK HIGH SCHOOL

TEAM Crew Members  Marco Garcia  Joceline Barrera  Jumiko Gomez  Instructor: George Schmidt

OUR STOCKS  Apple- AAPL (+6.4%)  Dollar Tree- DLTR (+4.5%)  Starbucks- SBUX ( +21%)  Coke- KO ( +6.5%)  Power Shares- QQQ (-4%)

OUR STRATEGY  One of our team members looked at the paper the day we picked our stocks, and saw that most of our stocks were doing well, so we picked them.  For Apple we bet that the “New Ipad” would be a huge success.  We bought and held all of our stocks even if they were going down.  During the end of the game we got greedy and bought, with the rest of our money, shares of QQQ. That did not work.

WHAT WE LEARNED  We learned that making any investment in any stock is always a gamble. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.  That being greedy can hurt you.  We bought QQQ at the very end in hopes that we would increases our equity, but we ended up taking a hit.  Rather than to use our gut feelings, we relied mostly on expert opions.

SMG SPONSORS  SIFMA Foundation & SIFMA Member Firms  Advantage Futures LLC  BMO Harris Bank  Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC  Chicago Tribune News in Education  CITI Foundation OTHERS  Our Principal: Ms. Pamela Glynn  Our Vice Principal: Dr. Karen Boran  Our Teacher: Mr. George Schmidt  Martin Cabrera  Marty Paul  Debbie Kerman  Joanne Dempsey SPECIAL THANKS