Using Interactive Brokers as a simulation trading platform and Yahoo! Finance, among other current financial news sources, the project team conducted four individual seven-week stock market simulations using four different trading strategies: buy-and-hold, shorting the market, leveraged ETFs and options straddle prior to earnings announcement. The simulations were analyzed weekly and at the final conclusions. The four simulations were compared to learn the effectiveness and applicability of the strategies.

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Creator

• Sorensen, Lucas David
• Cady, Emma E.
• DeWeese, Jackson Paul
• Cady, Zephyr Dana

Subject

• Computing
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-120611-115337

Keyword

• Computer simulation
• Stocks
• Stock exchanges

Advisor

• Tang, Dalin

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-12-06

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright