401K Financial Planning

sam k asked:

Simulation games are usually played on the internet, where people can experience the thrill of investing in the stock market without any risks, costs or any fear of losing money when and if they make a poor investment decision.

Many teachers and professors of banking and finance are now using stock market simulation games to teach their students about the rudiments of investing in stocks. Most stock market simulation games come with a fee to get started, but there are some that are free of any charge.One need not ve prior knowledge about the stock market to join.

This is how stock market simulation games usually work:

First, players must register. After registration, players are given an initial sum of “virtual” money to invest in companies of their choice. Players build a portfolio of stocks by buying and selling shares in companies. Most stock market simulation games use real-time market data.
objective of most stock market simulation games is

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Question posted courtesy of: Ricardo

monaya asked:

I’m confused. I purchased stock using Sharebuilder let’s say for $500. My stock has gone down and the market value on the stock I own is now $300. Sharebuilder shows the “loss” of $200 as still existing in my Money Market account as a balance I can withdraw funds from or use towards investing.

How is that my stock price went down and the loss is still there? Shouldn’t that money be gone. That would mean you can’t lose the money you put in even if the stock went down?


Question posted courtesy of: Gary

rohit asked:

In Stock Ticker, you roll the dice to see what happens to the stocks. There are three possible outcomes for a stock: stock goes up, stock goes down, and stock pays dividend. We will ignore the case of dividends for this question. When a stock changes value, it can change by an amount of 0.05, 0.10, or 0.20.
(A) Write a pseudocode function that rolls the dice and figures out by how much a stock will change, returning the amount of change.
(B) Write pseudocode that initializes the stock values as an array, and then calculates the new values of the stocks after rolling all the dice 5 times. Call the function in (A) to figure out the amount of change, and roll one extra die to determine which stock to apply the result to.


Question posted courtesy of: Earl