Wisconsin Based Companies to Invest in

	Data Through	Time
Company ListMost Active SharesBiggest GainersBiggest Losers	10-23-2009	09:45:15 AM ET

Local Stocks
Ticker	Name	Price $	Price Change $	Volume (000)
AOS	A.O. Smith Corporation	43.49	0.09	333
ATU	Actuant Corporation	16.86	0.36	388
LNT	Alliant Energy Corporation	27.89	0.21	710
MO	Altria Group Inc.	18.18	-0.03	14,222
ALC	Assisted Living Concepts, Inc.	22.30	0.05	23
ASBC	Associated Banc-Corp	11.55	0.49	4,619
AIZ	Assurant, Inc.	32.27	0.93	1,039
BMI	Badger Meter, Inc.	38.70	0.53	114
BKMU	Bank Mutual Corporation	7.79	0.08	150
BMS	Bemis Company, Inc.	26.43	0.03	864
BONT	Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.	8.80	0.32	111
BRC	Brady Corporation	29.35	0.20	258
BGG	Briggs & Stratton Corporation	21.80	-0.44	1,635
BC	Brunswick Corporation	11.87	-0.13	1,741
BUCY	Bucyrus International, Inc.	42.53	-0.05	2,819
CNH	CNH Global NV	22.73	1.74	581
CBE	Cooper Industries, Ltd.	40.15	0.84	4,233
EFD	eFunds Corporation	8.69	-0.14	1
FBIZ	First Business Financial Services, Inc.	9.11	-1.31	0
FISV	Fiserv, Inc.	49.40	0.10	1,224
FO	Fortune Brands, Inc.	43.13	0.98	1,198
GE	General Electric Company	15.34	-0.19	122,900
WOLF	Great Wolf Resorts, Inc.	3.75	0.02	64
HOG	Harley-Davidson, Inc.	28.72	0.38	3,330
TEG	Integrys Energy Group, Inc.	35.77	0.38	611
JCI	Johnson Controls, Inc.	26.96	0.27	3,832
JOUT	Johnson Outdoors, Inc.	9.58	0.44	0
JRN	Journal Communications, Inc.	4.48	0.15	277
JOYG	Joy Global, Inc.	55.40	0.15	3,792
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Corporation	63.09	3.40	6,449
KSS	Kohl's Corporation	59.87	2.09	5,906
KOSS	Koss Corporation	11.51	-0.40	0
KFT	Kraft Foods, Inc.	27.11	-0.31	10,395
LDSH	Ladish Company, Inc.	14.56	0.21	95
MTW	Manitowoc Company, Inc.	11.53	0.29	4,406
MAN	Manpower, Inc.	54.27	1.57	2,188
MCS	Marcus Corporation	13.23	-0.47	92
MI	Marshall & Ilsley Corp.	6.10	0.09	123,480
MRTN	Marten Transport, Ltd.	18.10	0.07	307
MRGE	Merge Healthcare Incorporated	4.04	0.16	121
MGEE	MGE Energy, Inc.	36.41	0.18	36
MTG	MGIC Investment Corporation	5.63	0.32	4,341
MOD	Modine Manufacturing Company	9.39	-0.24	1,165
NPK	National Presto Industries	91.85	1.63	31
NP	Neenah Paper, Inc.	11.40	-0.06	63
OESX	Orion Energy Systems Inc	3.17	0.07	44
OSK	Oshkosh Corporation	35.14	0.40	1,049
PLXS	Plexus Corp.	26.84	0.53	132
RAH	Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.	56.43	-0.04	943
RBC	Regal-Beloit Corporation	49.83	0.40	247
RLRN	Renaissance Learning, Inc.	11.45	0.35	25
ROK	Rockwell Automation	43.87	0.57	853
SCHS	School Specialty, Inc.	24.18	0.46	54
SXT	Sensient Technologies Corporation	26.71	0.32	259
SIAL	Sigma-Aldrich Corporation	54.97	-0.23	992
SNA	Snap-on, Inc.	37.67	0.05	509
STRT	Strattec Security Corporation	13.91	-0.57	1
TOMO	TomoTherapy, Inc.	4.27	0.01	202
TTC	Toro Company	39.24	1.00	199
TFCO	Tufco Technologies	2.76	-0.26	4
TWIN	Twin Disc, Inc.	10.78	-0.25	67
USB	US Bancorp	25.35	0.92	18,246
WSBF	Waterstone Financial, Inc.	4.06	0.06	8
WPP	Wausau Paper Corporation	9.62	0.43	136
WLP	WellPoint, Inc.	46.02	0.76	4,940
WFC	Wells Fargo Company	30.17	1.27	73,131
WEYS	Weyco Group, Inc.	23.01	0.63	9
WEC	Wisconsin Energy Corporation	44.92	0.27	617

Week 1 Rating

Bond

A bond is a certificate representing a loan from an investor to a corporation or government entity that makes fixed payments for a set time and eventually pays back the loan in full.

The amount of money that you earn on a bond is related to its rating

Sandard & Poors Long-Term Debt & Moody's Ratings Equivalents

Investment Grade:	Moody's	Standard & Poors
Exceptional	Aaa, Aaa1, Aaa2, Aaa3	AAA, AAA-, AA+
Excellent	Aa, Aa1, Aa2, Aa3	AA, AA-, A+
Good	A, A1, A2, A3	A, A-, BBB+
Adequate	Baa, Baa1, Baa2, Baa3	BBB, BBB-, BB+
Speculative Grade:
Questionable	Ba, Ba1, Ba2, Ba3	BB, BB-, B+
Poor	B, B1, B2, B3	B, B-, CCC+
Very Poor	Caa, Caa1, Caa2, Caa3	CCC, CCC-, CC+
Extremely Poor	Ca, Ca1, Ca2, Ca3	CC,CC-, C+
Lowest	C	C

Yahoo Finance Bond Page

Blog Posts Required Weekly

You will need to create and update your blog every week during the stock market game.

Here are 7 prompts that you may use when you are writing. You blog must be updated with 4 new posts a week. Prompt 1 & 2 must be done every week. You may choose from the other prompts.

1. Review of your portfolio: What you bought/sold, cost, commissions paid. Overall value of your portfolio (increase/decrease and why). Why you picked to purchase or sell the stock you did this week. Stock dividends declared or splits that occurred to the stock you own.
2. Review of the Market for the week: What happened the previous week for the following indicies:
• S&P 500
• DJIA
• NASDAQ


3. Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page. Include a link to the article and then your review of what was presented.
   
   
4. Review an article on any company that your groups owns stock/bonds in. Include a link to the article and your review of what was presented.



5. How did the competitors do this week compared to the stock you held.



6. New Products/services provided in an industry you hold.



7. Review of the economy in general. What is happening and why.

Blocked ticker Symbols

SMG Excluded Stock Symbols

As of 10-9-09

Symbol Name
ABBB
ADDDF
ADDDY
ADDYY
APPL
ASDFF
AXQPF
BBME
BF.A
BF.B
BFA
BFB
BFET
BKKLY
BLKIA
BLKIB
BOI
BOZZ
BSHI
BVT
CASTU
CMTB
CMYF
CORB
CREL
CRWTF
CTOT
CUMD
CYFL
DBX
DEBC
DMFG
DOLLP
DPC
DSDVF
DXJ
EBK
EFP
EFSG
ESTX
FBBN
FCBE
FCGN
FNSR
FSBC
FSSB
FWLTW
GCE
GCOSL
GCYT
GHC
GNCB
GRBS
HBBRF
HCBP
HMTW
IOT
IPU
IPW
IVOI
JCTCF
LDPH
LFYC
LINSA
LNDU
LUZR
MCPH
MDNB
MHT
MISS
MNBO
MOR
MVLY
NMNB
OSCUF
PARDP
PARF
PMHV
POLGB
PRIMU
PTOK
PWD
RBLG
RTW
SAOSA
SCXLB
SDM
SFEF
SFRK
SGAL
SRNN
STBJF
SWHI
TNRK
TROLB
TVOC
TVTKY
UBD
UNTN
WAFB
WAKE
WIBW
WINA
WXJXF

Post to Nominate for Edublog

Here is a post with a link back to edublog.
This blog is a instructional blog to give my students guidance in writing their own blogs on researching the stock market.

Stock Market Game

Students who participate in the The Stock Market Game™ program learn more than investing. As they progress, they learn core academic concepts and skills that can help them succeed in the classroom — and in life.

Starting with a virtual cash account of $100,000, students strive to create the best-performing portfolio using a live trading simulation. They work together in teams, practicing leadership, organization, negotiation, and cooperation as they compete for the top spot. The setup is engaging, and the learning is a natural part of the experience.

In building a portfolio, students research and evaluate stocks, and make decisions based on what they've learned. Teams trade common stocks and mutual funds from the NYSE, Nasdaq and AMEX exchanges; earn interest on cash balances; pay interest if buying on margin and pay a commission on all trades. To determine why certain stocks perform the way they do, or why the broader market has moved up or down, they need to understand how the economy works, and to calculate their returns they need to do the math.

Since 1977, more than 10 million students have participated in The Stock Market Game™ program, and more classrooms sign on every year. Today the program is available in all 50 states and worldwide.

Teachers have discovered that The Stock Market Game™ program actually boosts attendance and reduces dropout rates. Students who participate in the program gain confidence and build self-esteem. They have fun — and learn more effectively as they see how their classroom lessons apply to the real world.

What students gain from The Stock Market Game™ program is a remarkable experience — and even more important, an education for life.

The program is made possible by the support of more than 650 securities firms, combined with essential grassroots support in schools and communities. It is the only stock market simulation supported by the New York Stock Exchange.

The Stock Market Game™ is a trademark of the Foundation for Investor Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and providing learning resources for investors of all ages, raising the level of investor awareness in the U.S., supporting research programs, and advocating the advancement of investor education.

Rules of the Game

Rules of The Stock Market Game Program

1. Each team begins the simulation with $100,000 in cash and may borrow additional funds. How much you may borrow is dependent upon the equity in your account. Interest is charged weekly on negative cash balances at an annual rate of 7.00%, and credited weekly on positive cash balances at an annual rate of 2.00%. Interest is calculated daily, then summed for the week (Saturday through Friday) and posted on the following Tuesday. The daily rate is based upon a 365 day year. Daily Interest = Cash * Appropriate Interest Rate(as a decimal) / 365.

2. You may trade only stocks and mutual funds listed on the American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange that have traded within the last 7 days. Canadian stocks traded on these exchanges will be priced within these markets but the current value is calculated using Canadian exchange prices adjusted using the current exchange rate for the American dollar equivalent.

3. End of Day Game transactions are priced at market daily closing prices. These prices can be found in the next day's newspaper or by using the price quote facilities of SMG. Real Time Game transactions are priced at the market price at the time of entry.

All Mutual Fund transactions are treated as real time transactions and priced at the previous day's closing price. This applies to both End of Day and Real Time games.

Transactions entered with a limit price will not be held past the initial attempt to price the transaction. This applies to both the End of Day or Real Time Games.

4. All buy orders must be a minimum of 100 shares. Sell orders for less than 100 shares will be permitted. Open ended mutual funds can not be short sold. Held short sell positions are marked to the market daily and the resulting gain or loss is added or subtracted from cash. No mark to market trasactions are posted in transaction history.

5. SMG does not permit buying stocks or mutual funds that trade below $5 per share. Such orders will be rejected. Sell transactions for existing long positions where transactions are executed at closing or real time prices will be accepted, even if the price is less than $5.00 per share. (There are a number of reasons for this rule. Low priced stocks, known as penny stocks, are very risky and volatile investments. Accordingly, brokers will not permit their customers to trade such securities on margin, just as SMG does not. Also, penny stocks tend to have very shallow markets and their prices move sharply with large orders, unlike SMG where transactions are executed at closing or real time prices regardless of order size).

6. Trades can only be processed in whole and will be rejected if sufficient buying power does not exist to execute the entire order.

7. A 2% broker's fee is charged for all transactions. For example, if you buy 100 shares of a stock at $10 per share, you must pay the 2% of $1000 or $20. On Sell or Shortsell transactions an SEC fee of $5.60 per million gross rounded to the nearest penny is also charged.

8. The Game is run Monday through Friday. Teams may trade on any day the participating stock markets are open. Orders may be entered 7 days a week during hours the system is available.

9. Trades entered after close of market (4:00 PM ET) will be priced at next day's closing price for the End of Day Game and at opening price for the Real Time Game. Mutual Funds are always treated as real time trades but priced at the last closing price.

10. Teams do not have to liquidate their portfolios at the end of The Game. Winners will be determined on the basis of either equity or the % return above/below S&P 500 Growth. (Some states may use additional criteria to determine winners).

Code of Conduct

Code of participation

1. SMG advisors must be responsible adults 18 years of age or older. In no case may they be a matriculated student in grades K-12.

2. SMG advisors will ensure that every participant on their team(s) has read and understands the SMG Rules and the Code of Participation.

3. Teams that do not comply with the SMG Code of Participation will be removed from the portfolio rankings.

4. The authority to remove a team from the rankings lies solely with the team's SMG coordinator organization.

5. Each team is responsible for any opening or closing transactions entered into its portfolio.

6. Teams may not enter transactions into portfolios other than their own. (Please note that when a team asserts that a transaction was entered by a non-member of that team, the team will nevertheless be ranked based on their portfolio's total equity, which will include the challenged transaction.)

7. Only transactions stored on the SMG database will be recognized for purposes of evaluating portfolio total equity.

8. FIE will be responsible for the accuracy of the market data. It is the responsibility of teams to report any major price discrepancies found in their portfolios. Failure to do so may result in disqualification from the competition. In extreme cases of continued disregard for this rule, FIE reserves the right to delete teams from the game. If a team believes a stock price or other information is incorrect, the team advisor shall notify their Coordinator by email.

9. In the event of an error on the part of FIE and/or coordinator organization(s), their liability to a participant shall be limited to the refund of registration or other fees paid.

Additional Rules

Additional rules

1. Any violation of the rules of the SMG may result in the invalidation of a transaction. Repeated violation of the rules may result in the disqualification of a team.

2. Additional rules have been developed in some states and, if applicable, have been included in your Coordinator's Information Page. It is the responsibility of your team to learn and abide by all rules.

3. You must maintain a total equity position that is greater than or equal to 30% of the current value of your current holdings. If you don't you will receive a margin call.

Portfolio Rules

Portfolios

1. A record of a team's portfolio and transactions will be available daily. A team will not receive a portfolio nor be listed in regional rankings until its initial transaction is entered successfully. A student can only be assigned to ONE portfolio per game period.

2 No back posting of trades will be done for trades of securities not contained within the SMG Security Table. Once the missing security has been added to the Security Table the security can then be traded. The same rule applies to trades rejected if they are incorrectly pricing below $5. Once the pricing has been corrected the security can be traded. Only Bonds listed in the SMG can be traded. No post dating of trades due to the system being unavailable.

3. Stock and cash dividends and stock splits are automatically computed into portfolios. Every effort is made to simulate as closely to real life as possible a variety of other corporate actions (mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, etc.), which may include the standard three-day settlement period. In this case, it may be necessary to suspend trading of a given security until the action can be completed. Canadian stocks trading on US exchanges cannot be traded between a split's record date and its payout date. It is the responsibility of teams to check their portfolios for accuracy and notify their Coordinator by email of any problems that are encountered.

4. Participants of the end of day pricing game may delete pending transactions prior to market close except in the case of Mutual Funds which are processed as real time orders.

Short Sell Rules

Short sell/short cover rules

1 All short sell orders must be for a minimum of 100 shares. Short cover orders for less than 100 shares will be permitted. Open ended mutual funds can not be short sold.

2. SMG does not permit short sells on stocks or mutual funds that trade below $5.00 per share. Such orders will be rejected. Short cover transactions for existing short positions will be accepted, even if the price is less than $5.00 per share. (See Rule #5 for an explanation).

katie Comments

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