How to Buy a Stock

        1.                  Sign into google.com and go to finance.google.com

        2.                  Go to the middle of the page and choose at stock

1. you can choose a stock by choosing one of the winners or losers
2. you can choose a stock based on the news about stocks

c.      you can choose a stock from the categories on the right hand side.

3. Click on the stock and get the stock quote (the large number). Enter that number into your portfolio with the abbreviation for the stock. Enter that number into the proper space in your spreadsheet for example: Imagine it is in cell D2.
4. Buy between $12,000 and $14,000 worth of Stock. The formula is =12,000/D2 (or the amount of money you want to spend divided by the cost of one stock.) That is the amount you will spend for that many stocks.
5. Choose a round number. For example if your answer was 332.873, then buy about 350 shares.
6. In your spreadsheet multiply price by number of shares and get the value of your stocks.
7. Subtract your stock value from $50,000 (or whatever is left.). That is what you have left.

You can leave up to $100 in your account from day to day.

How to Check your Stock

1. Go back to finance.google.com the next day in class. Type in your company abbreviation and it will give you a quote for that day. Enter that quote into the next day’s stock value (For example: Day 2, Day 3 and so on.)
2. You stock value on the new day will be the stock quote multiplied by the number of shares that you have. When you sell a stock you will use the new price quote that you have just received. Decide if you want to keep or sell the stock. (You must sell at least 2 of the 4 stocks.)
3. If you keep a stock, just move the information over to the next days box and multiply it out again.

How to Sell a Stock

1. You will look up the new price of your stock and multiply it by the number of shares to find out the new value as mentioned above.
2. Write “Sell” in the last box on the right. Add up the value of the two or more stocks that you have sold.
3. Find 2 or more companies that you like and get price quotes for them. Go through steps 3 to 7 as above in “How to Buy Stocks”.