Spreadsheet

Given $10,000. (in fictitious money;), you will decide which stocks are worthy of your investment.  Each day for 5 days you will check the value of your stocks and enter formulas to calculate the value of each stock in your portfolio and the total value of your portfolio.  At the end of 5 days, you will graph the value of your portfolio over time. You can go to www.yahoo.com, then finance to look up the stock prices for each day.  There is a link to look up the stock symbol it you don’t know it.

 

Stock Market Spreadsheet

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10

Spreadsheet layout is clear, color and white space used well.

 

10

Data entered is correct -- Ticker symbols, stock names, prices.

 

10

Data for stock prices is collected for 5 days.

 

10

Formulas calculate value for each stock and total value of portfolio.

 

10

Graph shows the changing value of the portfolio over 5 days, is clearly labeled and is sized well.

 

50

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