Friday, April 15, 2011

weekly Journal

This week I didn't make any trades, I was actually researching for my one stock project. I am keeping up in the game so far, and I like the stocks I have picked. I need to go and check the charts for the past few weeks on my stocks to see if they will be worth keeping or not. Maybe after this one stock research I will be able to chose a whole set of new stocks. So far, 5 out of 6 of my stocks today have gone up, and made me some monaayy.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Journal 7

This week I didn't invest in any stocks. All of my stocks were down and I didn't wanna arbitrarily pick stocks that may or may not help me win the game. Right now, Walmart and Starbucks are down, maybe because there are more important things going on in the world than coffee and meteocre to overpriced priced grocery items. But, lucky for everyone today, Sirius XM radio is doing fabulous so, you won't have to worry about not being able to hear your favorite, overplayed ,generic version of someone's well written work of art. Ha.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Journal 6

This week I sold CREE because I lost $2,182.50. I bought the stock for $53.28 and you can now buy it for $48.43. I assumed it was best to just be rid of it than to see what happens. I'm not sure of the reason why CREE is taking a dive. I just wanted to get it out of my portfolio.


I invested in Starbucks (SBUX) this week as well. I bought it for $34.07 which is so far the 52-wk high price. SBUX low price for this 52 wks was $22.50. Ivestopedia's chart for Starbucks shows that their numbers have been going up since last september. I think this will make me some money. I predict that Strbucks will do well in the next 4 weeks, or more.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Job Shadow

 For my job shadow, I went to Harry Jackson's art studio in Cody. I job shadowed his son Matt who is

now in charge of the gallery/studio since Harry is retired. When I got to the studio Matt showed me around

the behind the scenes stuff that most people don't get to visit when they come to see Harry's work. I had

already been exposed to some of this because, my mom is a former artist employee of Harry. (She painted

bronzes that Mr. Jackson had made.) Matt told me a little more background on Harry and all of the things

that there were to take inventory on, there were a lot! There's even more of Harry's work in his studio in

Italy. It was hard to believe that someone could produce so much art, and have so much talent and express it

all in only one life time. After we finished out tour of the place he took me to an office where he had been

photographing a number of Harry's paintings, sketches, charcoal drawings and every other kind of medium I

could think of. Matt was taking these photos so that he could upload them to a site, and people could see the

art without having to buy one of Harry's books, go to a museum or come to the studio. I had to crop the

images and straighten them so they looked professional. But, i also had to tag each photo so that Matt would

know, what portfolio the peice of art was from and what number he had assigned to it. I enjoyed it a lot

because, I got to see so many of Harry's peices that not very many people have ever seen. Like sketches in

his notebook from when he was in WWII, and even just doodles he did on drawing boards in his spare time.

I had an awesome experience and, I think it just set it in stone for me that I need to base my career off of art

because I know it's something I have a talent for and that will intrigue me for my whole life.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Journal 4

This week I invested in (CREE). CREE makes LED lights, and is a big, successdul business. I invested in this business because LED lights are very popular, between cars and Christmas trees LED lights are used a lot. The 52 week high price for CREE was $83.38, and the low price was $47.30. CREE's market cap is 5.63B so, it's a mid cap company. CREE has recently been in a dip on the charts but, it's coming back up and I think that it will continue to do better and make me money. (:

I also invested in Wal Mart (WMT). I invested in Wal Mart because it is obvious they are a successful company. The 52 week high price for WMT was $57.90 and the low price was $47.77. I anticipate that Wal Mart will go up in the next week or two and make some monnnaay.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

JOURNAL 3

This week I invested in Halliburton (HAL). I invested in this because, it is an oil company. Oil companies make lots of money, being that oil is a natural resource that is used by millions of people. The 52 week high price for HAL was $47.22. and the low price was $21.10. I bought these stocks at $45.55 and they are now selling at $47.66. The charts that investopedia and yahoo finance show that HAL is gradually increasing in price. Right now the charts are rocketing upwards. I have made $527.50 off of this stock so far. I have confidence that i will continue to make money off of this stock.


This week I also invested  Randgold Resources (GOLD). I invested in gold because i know with the recession gold is very valuable right now. I have made $1,060 so far off of this stock and it's 52-week chart is gradually decreasing. I feel like even with the decrease GOLD was a good investment.