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Fall 2011
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About the Course:

The purpose of this course is to educate students on the importance of investing and to provide a background to the main principles and concepts of long term investing. This course begins with the basics beginning from what a stock is, what causes its price movements and how to get started investing and trading. The class will then move into basic fundamental analysis closely followed by technical. Lectures will proceed into a variety of lectures on important investing strategies such as Contrarian, High Yield, Growth @ A Reasonable Price (GAARP), Value, Growth, etc. The class will conclude with group projects/presentations on stock picks with both fundamental and technical analysis. This class is designed for students who are not familiar with investing or may have traded in the past but wish to learn more.

Instruction Structure:

Principal Lecturer: Willson Deng

Assistant Lecturers: Akshay Maliwal, Austin Jett, Anthony Drew

President of BIG: Jeff Totten

How to Enroll:

You MUST attend the first meeting in order to be eligible to enroll in this Decal. Thereafter enrollment will be based on a short personal statement telling us why you are interested in joining this Decal and how this Decal will help you in your future endeavors. This will be followed by small group interviews. A signup sheet for interview times will be provided at the first day of lecture. Your personal statements will be collected at the time of your interview. First meeting is Wednesday 8/31 at 6pm in 101 Morgan.