Need help on calculating investments. have a project to do and was told nothing ..but hes the question.?

Question

My teacher has given us( in an assignment)
10,000 dollars we must invest this using a live market values
I want to invest in some stock but i dont know how to calculate it . we must do this for until the end of the semester and hand it in as a final.

Lets say i buy stock at 2.34 each share
and it goes up one point how would think effect my money

lets say i bought 50 shares

Feel free to call me names and joke on me ...i just want to learn

Answer 1

2.34 is a junk stock
Unfortunately rimm is already up 15 dollars in the last month ,
Regardless , start reading the ed section under investing

http://finance.yahoo.com/

and with $10K , create a portfolio of 5 stocks ( $2K each )

Look at the charts and key stats for
rimm aapl goog bpt hte pwe erf ach pcu tm
(also from the Yahoo site you have linked here )

then "buy" 2000 dollars worth of each . ( list in your hypothetical yahoo porfolio which is free to use for tracking )
Enter the buy dates and purchase amounts ( just use any end of day trading price for a stock that day )

Hopefully your portfolio is worth more than $10K in dec !

FYI - if you do buy like BPT , or PWE or ERF etc ,
You need to add in the high dividend payments for those stocks ( they pay out monthly and that amount is found in historical prices , select dividends only and they come up )

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