Job Shadow

I talked to my job shadow person Mike Moore. He is a professor the University of Wyoming Research Center. He said that his job is in a form of genetic engineering. He said that the job takes place mostly inside so he said I don't need to dress formally or to keep. warm. He said it doesn't really matter what I bring for a lunch but I need to be at the Center at 9 o'clock. He said he'd fill me in on details when I go.

Video Questions

1- what is your opinion of the topic of the video? explain why?

I think that it is fair for people who are higher in status to have information on what is going to happen to the stock market. They have the money, the influence, and the recources, so it's their right to use them as they wish.

2- what can you do about your opinion? How can you make your opinion count?

I really don't know what I can do about my opinion because I don't have the influence of a senator nor the resources. I just believe use what you can when you can if it inproves what happens to YOU.
3-What is insider trading? What was the info that caused Martha Stuart to go to Prison?

Insider trading is when a person trades stocks that belong to a company while knowing what is going to affect the the stocks wheather its in a positive or a negative way. Martha Stuart got the information for insider trading second hand but lied about it and was sent to jail for fraud and conspericy.


4-What is black friday? When did it get its name? What is cyber monday?

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many British Commonwealth countries. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but most non-retail employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time. The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.  Use of the term started before 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975

Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, created by companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year".

Transaction # 1 -  I sold Clearwire becasue it has dropped severly and I have lost around $3000 so i sold it before I lost any more money

Transaction #2 - I sold Ford Motor for the same reason as Clearwire. It has dropped severly and lost me $1500.

Candy Trading

We all walked into a small dark room that had two projectors playing some video of the "The Pit" stock trading going on. We were in small groups of like 3 or 4. When we all got in, we were told to get on the ground and collect as much candy as possible. My team of 4 collected as much as we could and made a pile of sweet delight. We were then told that the candy counted as stocks and that each one had it's own value and that they were all going to change in value by the end of the game.

My team had some twix, a load of laffy taffy, 2 pumpkins, 30 gold hershey bars, 13 silver hershey bars, and other kinds of candy. We walked around looking at the price's for each of the different candies. Whenever I was trading I was trying to get a hold of twix or the the pumpkins. Alot of things dropped in value and some things increased in value. In the end, we had more things that had increased in value and less things that decreased.

Occupy Wall Street

The people blaming Wall Street are people who are mostly people with no jobs, home, food, ect. The 53% who say that that they are hard working people who have tried hard to get to were they are seem to be more reasonable than the people who holding riots. The people who are the 53% are people who aren't wasting time yelling at people who wouldn't give a second glance at them. The 53% aren't happy with the way things are, but they are still doing what they can do for themselves compared to the people who are jobless and homeless who are blaming the government for their misfortunes. That is why I support the 53%

Journal 4

Today my YANZHOU COAL MINING stocks had lowered  to $23.60 form the original $24.80. I bought 300 more stocks of it since it was a lower price than when I originaly bought it. When I bought the stocks, the overall price for it went up to %26.60. I looked at it's charts and it has just dropped dramatically from when it was about $41. It has apears to have periods of be low in the 20's and periods of being high in the 20's. Within a 52 week period, I plan to let the price increase to $30.50 at the least before selling.

Journal 3

#1 I sold ADOBE SYSTEMS for $25.17 per stock and had 100 stocks and made $2,497.01. I originally bought the stocks for 24.56. The stocks have been low for a while and I sold them before they fell again.

#2 I bought 200 stocks of YOUKU.COM. The stock is $18.96 and I expect it to rise to $23.00 within the week.