1. Design your own app

2. What did you use to determine which companies to buy? Think of all of the information you found

3. Would it be easier if you just had an app that tell you what stocks are good and which are bad?

4. How might this happen?

5. If you designed an app, what would it look like? Think of 5 things that would make it appealing to investors like yourselves

6. What would the menu include?

7. How would you attract new users? When you first started to invest what would you have liked to use?

8. What’s on the first screen.

9. What are some features that would help users make better long-term investment decisions. Look back at your notes about the features on Yahoo finance. Over the long term you want to make 7 – 10% rate of return.

10. What feature(s) on your app would help people to increase their money over time?

11. Choose some links to helpful websites? https://finance.yahoo.com

12. What makes your app a must have for people?

13. Some points to consider: 52 week high and low Headlines Dividends--Does the company declare dividends? Price/earnings ratio--p/e ratio Compare other companies in the same sector, e.g. Apple and Microsoft

14. Choose an investment in your own Stock Market Game portfolio.

15. Describe that investment and why you selected it.

16. Explain how your app could be helpful to you when making decisions for your financial future.

17. Use this information and any other to write an essay. Describe the investment and why you chose it. Explain how your app would help you in the decision How could the app help over the long term investment?

18. HOMEWORK due November 19, 2015: THERE IS AN APP FOR EVERYTHING!TO THINK ABOUT: Everybody is crazy for apps! There is an app that can tune your guitar—or your ukulele if you have one. There’s an app that will blow out your birthday candles. There’s even one that will turn your phone into a metal detector! Imagine an app that helps people make investment decisions. Think about what you’ve learned in the Stock Market Game. What would the app need to be highly rated? What would the menu include? Consider what the first screen might tell a new user about investing and what features could help users make better long-term investments in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. What would the app have the investor do to increase their portfolio value over time? What website links would it have? What would make you want to download the app and use it right away? Be creative! You can even come up with a unique name for the app! Type a detailed outline for the writing assignment: Explore the examples above and using your own ideas and research, discuss the features of this app that would make it a successful long-term investment tool. Reflect on an investment in your own Stock Market Game portfolio, or a stock or bond or mutual fund in which you are interested. Describe that investment and why you selected it. Explain how this app could be helpful to you when making decisions for your financial future. Use specific examples.