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Starting Stock Purchases
Company Symbol Quantity Cost at Buying
Total Cost w/ Tran. Fee
Wal-mart WMT 300 $54.56 $16,353
Disney DIS 400 $22.46 $8,969
Best Buy BBY 300 $24.31 $7,278
Kraft KFT 200 $26.74 $5,333
Mastercard MA 400 $136.99 $54,781
Money Left: $7,286
Reasons Why
Wal-mart: Christmas shopping
Disney: vacation time near
Best Buy: Christmas shopping, more electronics
Kraft: cheap food, need ‘cuz economy bad (more of a longer term stock)
Mastercard: Christmas shopping, put most amount of money in, just had a drop
Selling
Best Buy: sold all 300 at $26.87, gain of $2.56 a share, total gain of $768, or 11%
Mastercard: sold 200 at $143.62, gain of $6.63 a share, total gain of $1326, or 5%
Mastercard, again: sold 200 at $148.81, gain of $11.82 a share, total gain of $2364, or 9%
Reasons Why
Best Buy: had just gone up, started to dropMastercard (first time): just started to go up,
needed the money, left moreMastercar (second time): climbed very, very
steeply; started to drop
Buying Again
Wal-mart, Disney, and Kraft leftBought 300 McDonald’s at $61.29 a share,
total cost $18387Bought 300 Nike at $52.69 a share, total cost
$15807Bought 300 UPS at $52.78 a share, total cost
$15834
Reasons Why
McDonald’s had just had a drop, cheap foodNike sells basketball shoes and it’s basketball
season, an international company = more customers
UPS is a large postal service, and there are many mailings around Christmas