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 We meet every Sunday at 7:15PM – 8:15PM at W151 in PBB  Membership Dues: $25/semester  Food/Drinks every meeting  Investment information and education  Great trading tips and strategies  Investment Competition: $15/semester  Best way to gain experience and learn  Past prizes include iPads, Apple TVs, gift cards  Fun Discussion atmosphere, member involvement

 Roughly 8 members who have an interest in expanding their knowledge of capital markets  Responsible for following one economic sector and presenting to the club  Great resume experience  Will write for the HawkTrade blog on the Motley Fool (

 Ye Guo – Chinese stocks  Katherine Doll – Healthcare  Greg Frommelt – Industrials  Edward Bellay – Energy  Aaron Morse – Generalist  Ryan Wettengel – Technology  Nicholas Sulentic – Generalist  Xiwen Liu – Chinese Stocks

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 League Settings:  Start Date: 9/15/2014  End Date: 12/ 05/2014  Portfolio Size: $100,000  Maximum Trade Position: 25%  Able to trade derivatives and options  If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, contact me: daniel-

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 1 st : Robert Poe - IFON -Infosonics Corp %  2 nd : Zhixiang Zhang – VRTB -Vestin Reality Mortgage %

 The strategy of selecting stocks that trade for less than their intrinsic values.  Value investors actively seek stocks of companies that they believe the market has undervalued.  They believe the market overreacts to good and bad news, resulting in stock price movements that do not correspond with the company's long- term fundamentals. The result is an opportunity for value investors to profit by buying when the price is deflated.

 The actual or perceived value of a company or asset based on a valuation technique that tries to incorporated the entire value of the business’s assets (tangible or intangible).perceived  Important to remember that intrinsic value is subjective.

Dividend Discount Model Discounted Cash Flows Model

 Value investors look for a company that is undervalued in their eyes.  Driving factor of intrinsic value is future earnings.  Often times, value investors look for companies who they believe in the product or service they provide.

 Warren Buffet is the most famous value investor. Warren Buffet  Forward looking to the durable competitive advantage the company has.  High dividend yield and low debt.  Strong FCF generation.

 Timing the market is difficult!  Value investing is based on the premise of investing at a discount, but that doesn’t mean you need to time the market perfectly.

 Investing a designated dollar amount at different times in the same security.  Allows for lower average cost to own.  Hedge against possible volatility in stock price.

 Weak Form – all historical price information is incorporated in the stock’s price  Semi-Strong Form – all public news and price information is incorporated into the stock’ price  Strong Form – all public news, price information, and insider information is reflected in the stock’s price

 As Warren Buffet always says, “Invest in what you know.”  Do not try to time the stock, if you believe in the value the company provides, invest in it.  Develop an opinion and defend it.  Value investing is typically meant to be long- term.

 An important leading indicator on the state of the health of the economy  One of the 10 components of The Conference Board Leading Economic Index  Actual: 293,000  Forecasted: 300,000  Previous: 281,000  Hovering around 8 year lows

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Durable Goods A category of consumer goods that do not have to be purchased frequently. Actual: -18.2% Forecasted: -17.3% Previous: 22.5% Due mostly to volatile orders in the transportation sector

 Cited as a key factor holding back housing recovery  13.7% of those who began repayment in FY2011 have defaulted after three years  Full percentage lower than last year  Default rate for FY2007 was 11.8%

Housing Market Weak numbers in existing home sales Actual: 5.05 million Forecasted: 5.20 million Previous: 5.13 million Home prices rose.7% month over month and 7.3% year over year

 Known as the “Bond King” Bill Gross left PIMCO, the firm he founded for Janus Capital  He managed the Total Return Fund, which had large position in US Treasuries  10 year Treasury yields rose 3 basis points to 2.53%

 Net loss narrowed to 2 cents per share  Due to cost restructuring and stabilizing phone sales  Focusing in their professional models, with a great emphasis on data security  2.4 million in phone shipments compared to 1.6 million in the previous quarter  The future of the company lies in selling devices and software to corporations