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Bellwork. “What would you do with $100,000?” “How much is $100,000?”. The Stock Market Game (SMG),. Amazing Market. Why does the  stock market  exist? Government needed to borrow money to pay for the revolutionary War

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Bellwork

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  1. Bellwork • “What would you do with $100,000?” • “How much is $100,000?”

  2. The Stock Market Game (SMG),

  3. Amazing Market • Why does the stock market exist? • Government needed to borrow money to pay for the revolutionary War • Alexander Hamilton report on Public Credit decided to sell bonds and funds • These bonds marked the beginning of Americas financial markets • Once the bonds were issued private investors began trading them

  4. Essential Liquidity • Financial market • provided liquidity • allowed investors to trade securities among themselves • Investors • sell the bonds for cash • Stock market • Provided investors with the ability to exchange a financial asset for cash • New York Stock Exchange -Originated 1792

  5. Market Signals • It generated prices • Reflected investors' best estimates of each company's future potential • the telegraph, ticker tape, telephone, and now the Internet, • allows us to buy and sell from everywhere. • Stock market exists • to provide investors with the liquidity • they require to invest in the stocks • that corporations want to sell to raise funds for their start-up and expansion.

  6. New Companies for New Challenges • the "market of stocks" provided the liquidity for investors to buy and sell shares . • By the late 1800s, stocks of publicly owned corporations were trading on the New York Stock Exchange. • Charles Dow created the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896,

  7. Vocabulary • Consensus: To reach team agreement on a decision • Invest: When you invest you become part owner in a company or loan a government agency money with the expectation of earning more money.

  8. Groups need to keep track of • SMG Journal: Student journal to record • decision-making process, • summarize important information, • reflect on decision made through the course of the SMG program. • SMG Portfolio: • Record of investments and their current value • history of investments with prices of sales • cash on hand • money borrowed.

  9. Choosing Teams - • 1st period and 6th Period • Team A-5 • Team B-5 • Team C-5 • Team D-5 • Team E-5 • Team F-5 • www.stockmarketgame.org Passwords will be passed out after teams are created keep these safe and secure do not lose it!!!!

  10. Activities : • Activity 1 Team Building skills • Work as Teams • Fact Sheet 1- Journal entries

  11. Rules for the Stock Game • You may find the Rules for Stock Market Game on the website

  12. Homework • Each Team member needs to log on and read and understand the Stock Market Game website. It has Resources and other tabs you can look at to understand how the game works. • Do not buy or sell and stock now!!!! • Prepare and assign one of your members to keep a SMG Journal and another member to keep the SMG Portfolio. • Everyone will contribute to each document not only the person that is assigned. • Exchange email addresses with your member so you can communicate afterschool about the project.

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