BlackJack In School

On Wednesday I totally forget that we were going to play blackjack but when i went into the classroom I saw everyone going to a table so I went there too and Mr. Kapptie was giving tabs to everyone than I remember that we were going to play blackjack but I never played before and because of that a was nerves. Mr. Kapptie explained some of the rules but I didn't pay attention, the only thing I hear was that the goal of the game was to make a 21. If we get a 21 in the first 2 cars we won instantaneously the double of tabs that we had in the table. I was going to play one hand hoping that I would not lose but than Mr. Kapptie said that we had to play at least 4 hands. I didn't play the first hand because I wanted to learn how the game was play. I play the second hand after I "analyzed" how to play but I lose. I ask Mr. kapptie how much does the J was and he say it was 11 I should ask him for the Queen and king because when I tried to sum the cards I though that the king was 13 but it was 10. After I learn that the king was 10 and some other things I won 2 hands in arrow I had a lot of fun playing and I will like to play again. I learn no to let my feelings to dictated my decisions during the game and also in the stock market.

Portfolio

I have 2 stocks that I bought one as a trade and the other as a investment. The first trade is Toyota Motors, the catalyst haven't happen but I reach my goal of take the money that I invested out of the table and I still doing more in Toyota Motors, I bought this as a trade because of the background of the company also because I have some friends that have toyota cars and I know that they like to have their cars in ultimate conditions and for this to be able to happen they have to buy some car's parts that they may need to fixed also because this would keep doing so well if they does manufacture a new and innovating car.
The second is J&J snack food I bought this as a investment. Catalyst haven't happen yet and I am doing money. The dividing yield for this company is 0.70% annual. I bought this as an investment because J&J Snack Foods Corporation over the years has grown to new heights by adapting to a changing environment, and by continuing to expand its own unique core products and market niches. J&J is a manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of an expanding variety of nutritional, popularly priced snack foods and beverages for the food service and retail supermarket industries also it is considerate the biggest seller of pretzels in the United States.

Trade vs Investment

Trades: it is a short term relationship with a company to try to make money. Normally this relationships last from 3 months to 6. If you invert money as a trade and dividends happen excellent, you can make a lot of money. If the market increase and you are making money keep the trade until catalyst happen or if it decrease and you are losing about 15% of the money you invert than sell it.

Investment: it is a long term relationship with a company, kinda as a marriage and just like a marriage you can get divorce in investment you can finish your relationship any time. Dividends most of the time brings good things to the company and those things increase the money that you had invested and if the stock market increase the price you can sell some sits that you already own in the company but the best thing to do is borrow some sit to someone else at the end you can increase the money that you are earning. If the stock market decrease the prices you have 2 options  1 you can buy more sits in the company or sell some of your sits but If catalyst haven't happen than you can wait until it happen and win more money than the one that you inverted. For short sell buy some of the sit of a company that broke or is about to brake and than sell it in the market with even a higher price than the one that you bough it.

Great Experience

On Thursday, October 10, I went to free enterprise, when I arrived there the first thing that I notice was that everyone was outside the classroom at first I though that Mr.Kapptie wasn't in school, but than I hear his voice asking everyone to get close to him in order to give us information. He explain what were we going to do in class that day, he said that we were going to pretend to be in the stock market for the hole period he also say that we were responsible for picking up candies and fake money that were in the flor to used them as trades to make money and see how much money could we possible do at the end of the period. The lights of the classroom were off but it wasn't in complete dark because he had some of the computers on and also the projector, running a video of the people who work in the stock market, it was annoying. I was kinda of scare because I didn't know how exactly we were going to do the trade even when Mr. Kapptie explained everything. When I went inside of the classroom wasn't sure if I could put the candy and the money inside if my packets or no and because of this I didn't grave so many candies as I could. When we started to trade I was so confuse on how much were we going to sell or even buy the candies, at almost the end of the period I totally understood how everything worked but it was a little bit too late but I didn't make so bad at my total money at the end of the period thanks to my intuition that told me that everything that was in a low price was going to increase. The experience of that day was very interesting and educative, the feeling of be there cannot be describe with words, you have to be there to experiment the feeling.