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toc =Introduction= Want to make free money? What if I told you that by just giving someone your money to hold on to for a while you could get it back plus more. By investing in the stock market you can do something similar. However, it does not end there. You can also invest other people's money for them and make money as well! Are you ready to make money for nothing?

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Presentation: preparedness, content, time-limit, posture and eye contact, comprehension, vocabulary. ||
 * Goal || Your goal is to help your clients invest wisely in the stock market using ideas of slope and intercept to choose your stock. ||
 * Role || You are part of a group of stock brokers. ||
 * Audience || The stock investors that you are trying to get to invest.. ||
 * Setting || The challenge involves reading graphs and recognizing trends in order to predict future behavior. The challenge also entails accurately plotting points and labeling graphs. ||
 * Presentation || You will create a graph displaying each days closing data for your 5 stocks. You will then give a presentation and convince a group of stock investors (your class) to choose your stock. ||
 * Standards || Project: Accuracy, neatness/attractiveness, number of stocks graphed, data table, X and Y axis labeled

=Task= Performance Task: You and your colleagues have been hired as stock brokers by a group of wealthy clients. Your clients are looking to invest $100,000 and expect you to help them pick the right stocks so that they will make the most money. They come to you to find out which stock they should invest __it__ (in?). They want to see 2 weeks of past data on 3-5 stocks and after then you will be able to invest their money how you see fit. You are then to keep track of the stocks for two weeks, at that point the investors will want to know how much money you have made.

You are to choose 3 to 5 stocks and research the back data for each stock for 2 weeks. You should make a data table for each stock and put all the information on one graph (using excel). At this point you are to chose 2 or 3 of these stocks based off the past data and keep track of the closing data for each day for two weeks. All of this information should be kept in a data table. Continue to plot the stocks you chose for the two weeks and be prepared to explain why you chose the stocks you did. Please choose your stocks from the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange). You can use [|this website] to find your stocks.

What You Need To Do: 1. Choose 3-5 stocks from the NYSE and look up the past closing data for at least 2 weeks (you can go back further if you want). 2. Post a graph and data table from excel into the class wiki and mention how much you will invest in each stock. Also include how many shares you will be able to buy with the amount you are investing. 3. Keep track of the closing data for your stocks for 2 weeks. 4. Create a graph depicting __all__ your stocks for the 2 or 4 weeks of data you have for them. 5. Calculate how much money you gained/lost and include a brief summary of the closing data.



=Conclusion= Now that you have invested money in the stock market and have some idea of what it entails write a reflection on whether you think it is a viable way to make money. This should just be a paragraph long and include why you think it is a good idea or not.