Economics Homework Help

A maximum three-page, 1.5-spaced paper about your Virtual Stock Exchange experience will be due at the end of the quarter. Please address the following:

• State your total return (in %) and your market-adjusted return, which is your total return minus S&P 500 return over the same time period.
• Summarize your trading philosophy.
• Discuss the main sources of information you rely on when making trading decisions.
• Discuss your major trading positions. You don’t have to give a detailed list of every trade you made but are expected to summarize the overall long/short position you took for different industries/sectors.

• Which positions exceeded your expectations? What conditions caused this?
• Which positions underperformed for you? What factors created the performance gap?
• What are the key things you learned from your Virtual Stock Exchange experience?
• How will your Virtual Stock Exchange experience influence your personal investment in the future?