The Stock-trak experience for me was a very positive one. I am a finance major and it is very important for me to know and understand all of the different types of investment opportunities that are available in today’s markets. Coming into this class and this project, I was fairly uninformed about many of the common investments, such as bonds, options, and futures. The stock market was fairly familiar to me, but if I were asked to invest in stocks before participating in Stock-trak, the result would have been very unsuccessful. My original strategy was to invest a small amount of money into a few different securities and basically sit on the money that I had. I figured that everyone else in the class would be new to investing and would lose money on average. However, the requirements of the project prevented me from taking this strategy, along with the whole point of learning and trying new techniques. Not knowing much about bonds, options, and futures, much of my money went into stocks. I invested in what I knew, like Yahoo, P & G, and 3M. As the semester progressed, so did my diversification. I wanted to put some money into t-bills, knowing that that money would be “safe”. I also put money into futures, hoping that the multiplier would help me profit. As far as specifically what I invested in, I would generally get ideas off of CNBC or Yahoo Finance. I would read news stories or analyst opinions and invest accordingly. I found this method to be mostly disappointing. I realized that by the time the information got to me, it had already been reflected in the price and I usually invested too late to profit. I needed to take a much more proactive approach in order to profit. I started thinking more in the future and estimating based on what I was reading, instead of simply reacting to it. Qualitatively, I did quite well with this project. When