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BP Risk failure. Sometimes you will make it to the top and sometimes not. Unfortunately during these ten weeks I did not. The numbers just didn't add up with BP stocks. The only Weeks I made money was in the 1, 3 and 5 week. In week one the price changed was $1.27 and the percent changed was 2.74%. After losing money in the second week the third week's price change over all was only $1.15 the percent change over all was 1.1%. As a result of the loss of money in the fourth week the fifth lead to a price change over all of $0.48. This very low price allowed the percent change over all to be only at 0.3%. When the tenth week was all said and done the value of all of my 5,430 shares was $228005.70 after I originally bought them all for about $250000.000. It wasn't just the numbers, BP had some company problems as well. Since they have raised their prices many people have probably been trying to conserve. This means that people won't come and sales will slow down. Ayears ago BP oil spilled in the Golf. Some people may still be boycotting BP since the accident. Without people's business my stocks have sufferer. This choice of stocks may not have let me win the contest but I became the leader of the bottom. Even though there were a fewbumps in the road we worked things out with Mastercard Inc. Mastercard Inc. We invested in Mastercard Inc. because it has a steady increase in its value over the past several years. Mastercard Inc. did very well over the past ten weeks posting an increase in price per share from $394.82 per share to $440.44 per share. This is and increase of 11.55% or a total dollar increase from our initial investment of $28,740.60. I calculated to 11.55% increase by dividing the original cost per share by the amount the stock price increased. I believe Mastercard Inc. did very well because it is a very large international company with a proven track record of increasing value. As a matter of fact Mastercard Inc. closed at an all time 52 week high on April 25th of $455.06 per share. Although,Mastercard posted an impressive increase in value, Apple stocks performed the best in our group.

Apple- I chose Apple for varies reasons. One reason was because Apple comes up with verymany things not a lot of other companies come up with. For example "the new" iPad, the iPad 2, and the iPhones. Another reason is it is usually has the stock price going up except on bad days. Alsto you earn 35-40 dollars per share you have.

I those Apple because the value of all 500 shares is 286,490. Also it has a price change of $109.28 overall, which is actually pretty good. Also 6 out of the 10 weeks of doing this the price change per week increased so 40% decreased. Last, 6 of the 10 prices increased so that means we gained more then we lost. So that's good.

In conclusion I think Apple succeeded barely. One is Apple gained more then they lost. Also they kept coming out with new items. Another is they only decreased sometimes by the price. Lastly it gave us good percent of the money gined in the contest. So I think using Apple was a smart idea.

I also think using Apple was a fail. I think that because 40% of the price change decreased. That's only 10% away from half. This also goes with price changed per week. That's why I think Apple was a good and bad company.