{"id":51414,"date":"2020-05-28T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=51414"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:36:40","slug":"smhs-business-economics-students-know-more-than-a-thing-or-two-when-it-comes-to-the-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/smhs-business-economics-students-know-more-than-a-thing-or-two-when-it-comes-to-the-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"SMHS Business Economics students know more than a thing or two when it comes to the Stock Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feb.-10-\u2014-Musicians-from-five-local-high-schools-will-join-forces-for-a-performance-in-Santa-Maria.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42452\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feb.-10-\u2014-Musicians-from-five-local-high-schools-will-join-forces-for-a-performance-in-Santa-Maria.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>SANTA MARIA<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0SMHS Business Economics students know more than a thing or two when it comes to the Stock Market.<\/p>\n<p>Three Saint Teams placed in the top one percent out of 931 teams in the Los Angeles Region\u2019s 10-week simulation entitled the \u201cStock Market Game\u201d. The teams of two each received a \u201cvirtual\u201d $100,000 to invest in the stock market. Teams strategized and researched companies before they selected their investments and real time trades were made.<\/p>\n<p>Rachelle Sanchez Medina and Jasmin Torres Garcia ranked 16<sup>th<\/sup>, Esther Pascual DeJesus and Carolina Sanchez-Martinez ranked 17<sup>th<\/sup> and Maria Magana Flores and Alisson Rabanales ranked 18<sup>th <\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is quite an accomplishment, especially due to the volatility of today\u2019s stock market and many of the trades occurred during Covid-19 Shelter at home. It was a difficult process since students could not discuss their transactions face-to-face after March 13<sup>th<\/sup>. Once they were no longer allowed to come to school, they basically had to contact each other and\/or they made individual decisions with their half of the $100,000. They were constantly being reminded through emails and weekly Zoom meetings to continue to make the trades up until the simulation ended on May 15<sup>th<\/sup> and all transactions were online. They were awarded recognition in both a Virtual Stock Portfolio Investment Simulation and Financial Literacy knowledge.\u2019\u2019 &#8211; Teacher Cindy Quaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMHS Business Economics students know more than a thing or two when it comes to the Stock Market.<\/p>\n<p>Three Saint Teams placed in the top one percent out of 931 teams in the Los Angeles Region\u2019s 10-week simulation entitled the \u201cStock Market Game\u201d. The teams of two each received a \u201cvirtual\u201d $100,000 to invest in the stock market. Teams strategized and researched companies before they selected their investments and real time trades were made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/smhs-business-economics-students-know-more-than-a-thing-or-two-when-it-comes-to-the-stock-market\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1711,5,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-local","category-news","category-youth-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51415,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51414\/revisions\/51415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}