Our Strategy for Investing in 2006

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Our Strategy for Investing in 2006

• Welcome to this presentation from the Duke
  Ellington Elementary Team
• Alexandria Bush
• Fonisha Pitchford
• Denzel Moore
• Travis Harrison
• LaNaisha Hobbs
• We hope you enjoy it

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Buy and Hold

• Do your homework. Plan your way in AND your way
  OUT!
• Never Buy or Sell unless you can explain why!
• Make connections between what you learn and what
  you already know.
• The key is not knowing when to buy, but knowing
  when to sell! Remember, you only make or lose
  money when you sell.
• Use insider trading reports as a guide.

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Our Portfolio

• BP
• British Petrolueum 1.98
• HES
• Hess Oil, vertically integrated oil producer
  24.80
• AH
• Armored Holdings, makers of bullet-proof vests
  and HumVee protection - 4.2
• IBM
• Bluechip technology and services firm 11.65.

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Our Portfolio

• LUV
• Southwest Airlines -8.36
• VG
• Vonage Holdings 0.7.
• SIRF
• Sirf technologies, makers of embedded GPS chips
  29.32.

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What worked

• Connecting current events, with the future impact
  on businesses.
• SIRF
• GPS is BIG and will be in everything
• Big OIL
• Volatile, but always growing due to increased
  global demand. Vonage Holdings 0.7.
• IBM
• A Blue Chip technology stock. Part of the DOW.

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What did not work

• Vonage
• Too soon after the IPO. Wait for more history
  and PROFITABLE QUARTERS.
• Southwest Airlines
• It's an airline! Those things are like poison.
• OIL
• Volatile, but always growing due to increased
  global demand. Vonage Holdings 0.7.
• Armored Holdings
• Defense contractors are only as good as their
  long-term contracts. Doubts about the war have
  caused a sell-off, resulting in lower stock price.

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Our Portfolio

• LUV
• Southwest Airlines -8.36
• VG
• Vonage Holdings 0.7.
• SIRF
• Sirf technologies, makers of embedded GPS chips
  29.32.

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Our Sources

• Zacks.com
• Quotes, Charts and reports.
• Company Websites
• Annual Reports
• YAHOO!
• News, Quotes, Charts and Investor Newsgroups
• Chicago Tribune

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Special thanks to

• The Stock Market Game
• Program Sponsors
• Cabrera Capital Markets, Inc.
• Chicago Tribune News in Education
• HSBC North America
• YAHOO!
• News, Quotes, Charts and Investor Newsgroups
• Illinois Council on Economic Education
• Our Advisor Mr. Semeneck