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Stock Market Challenge 2007

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2nd Annual Stock Market Challenge
October 11, 2007

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We would like to thank this year's sponsors:

Title Sponsor

St. Germain Investment Management

Platinum Sponsors

Citizens Bank 

Savage Sports Corporation

Silver Sponsors

Country Bank 

Easthampton Savings Bank

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Team Sponsors 

Bacon & Wilson, P.C.
Balise
Elms College
Excel Dryer
Lenox American Saw
Mass. Municipal Wholesale Electric
OMG, Inc.
Sisters of Providence Health System
Smith Barney
Sovereign Bank
The Vann Group
The Wood Family Foundation
United Bank
United Industrial Service
W.F. Young
Waste Management
Wolf & Company

Stock Sponsors

B&F Machine Co.
Hanover Insurance
PeoplesBank

Thank you to our participating high school teams!

East Longmeadow High School
Easthampton High School
Enrico Fermi High School
Holyoke Catholic High School
Holyoke High School
Longmeadow High School
Mount Carmel Academy
New Leadership Charter School
Our Lady of Hope
Pittsfield High School
SABIS International
Taconic High School
YSET

Premise of the Stock Market Challenge

  1. Teams begin the game with $500,000 trading dollars which the can invest in fictitious stock.
  2. Once the bell is rung, every 80  seconds is a new trading day, in this volatile market! Teams can track their stocks performance and their overall team standing by the information projected onto  three massive screens at the front of the room.
  3. Teams can buy or sell stock by attracting the attention of a floor trader, just as they do on the stock trading floor. Every floor trader is equipped with a hand held computer which sends orders instantly into the system, via wireless transmission.
  4. The team with the largest portfolio after 60 days of trading WINS !

Who can participate?

  1.  Each Team consists of 4 players
  2. There will be a student event open to local Middle & High Schools
  3. There will be a Corporate event in the evening and to see the Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities please click on the pdf below.

NEXT YEAR'S STOCK MARKET CHALLENGE WILL BE ON NOVEMBER 13th 2008

For more information about becoming a participating school or a corporate sponsor please email amanda@jawm.org or call 413-747-7670