How Do I Find Out How Much Money I Made In The Stock Market?
By b2b on December 16th, 2009In this class at school, we are doing this stock market project. We started out with $10,000 (not real money) and we were supposed to buy at least 3 different shares of stocks. I bought 10 shares of AAPL at $71.32 per share for a total of $713.70, 15 shares of MSFT at $26.72 per share for a total of $400.80, and BKS at $43.07 per share for a total of $430.07. I’ve written down the price of each stock everyday. How do I found out how much money I gained or lost?
Go to Yahoo Finance and enter the symbols of the stock you bought. I’m assuming your project is excluding commission costs, primarily because you made no mention of it.
Here is the link for the AAPL:http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL (you’ve lost money)
For the MSFT:http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft (you’ve lost money)
For the BKS:http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BKS (you’ve made money)
So get your closing price x the # of shares you bought. Do it three times for your three stocks and you’re done.
What grade are you in?
Hope this helps!
–J.
Look up the prices for these stocks on the day you decide to “sell” them! For example, if you sold them today (10th May, 2006), you would get:
AAPL $70.60 for each share of Apple ($706.00)
MSFT $23.77 for each share of Microsoft ($356.55)
BKS $44.40 for each share of Barnes & Noble ($444.00)
so you spent ($713.70 + $400.80 + 430.70) which equals $1545.20, and now it’s worth ($706.00 + 356.55 + 444.00) which equals $1514.25.
So you’ve lost $30.95.
But hang in there, long-term you’ll always win!
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If you are looking for a dollar amount, simply add together the current market value of all your holdings (sum of current market price * #shares) plus remaining cash and subtract 10,000 (your starting amount) a positive number would indicate you made money and a negative number would indicate you lost money. You should add in any dividends you were entitled to and technically should subtract commissions in such to compare to real world example. To find the total percentage gain take the total that you calculated above and divide by 10,000 and subtract 1. This will give you in percentage terms your rate of return since you started the project.