I hate my teacher. He gave us a stock martet project and I want to lose money on it.?

We get 30,000 to invest in equal amounts to 3 companies that are within the NYSE. I want to lose money? I need 3 stokes that are deffinatly going to fail?

That really makes no sense.

What are you talking about?

So you're really going to get back at your teacher, instead of learning something that you can use in the future, you're wasting time by looking for some failing stocks.

How about choosing the 3 failing stocks and find out why they are losers, so you can teach others to avoid them.

Grow up and Good Luck.

Yeah, that'll really show that teacher. You know what that teacher is saying? "I really hate that kid, I hope he loses money so I can flunk him. I know he's not smart enough to do well anyway. He'll never need to know about the stock market since dishwashers and ditch diggers don't usually have big investment portfolios."

Finally, given the way you spelled "definitely", I can see you know all you need to know.

There is no way to know if a stock is definitely going to fail, BUT you have a bigger chance of losing $ if you choose a high risk / small cap stock. There are plenty to choose from.

Why? I don't get it? How does that punish the teacher?

Go to the short interest page of Baron's and go long on the stocks that have the highest short interest.

Or use ValueLine and buy stocks that are rated 4 or 5 for timeliness.

Regardless of what you think of the teacher, you could probably learn a lot from this project. As you earn money, you will want that money to work for you so that you do not need to work as long or as hard. Knowing how to invest, and part of investing is knowing how to choose stocks, will help you throughout the rest of your life. It might be the best thing that you ever learned at school. So ignore your feelings about the teacher and learn all you can from him.

great idea ... try to pick companies going under .... good mental exercise for short selling, which is an essential tool in every stock trader's toolbox.

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Here's some ideas:

Sears -- looks like management is failing at the basic task of getting people into the stores. Same store sales are falling while the competition is eeking out small sales increases.

Beazer Homes -- this home builder has a low position in the industry, poor name recognition, and there are rumors of investigation by the Attorney's General of several states for mortgage fraud. [Beazer had its own mortgage origination arm whose foreclosure rates are astronomical and buyers are claiming lots of blank forms and fraudulent income statements that Beazer knew about.]

Motorola -- their cell phone segment is losing market share to Nokia, but it is the highest growth part of the company. Idea to spin it off has created a "pop" in the shares which, imho, has no meaning for the long run. The spun off cell phone segment may well go dead [bankrupt] while the remaining company suffers from slow growth in a fast growth industry.

auto parts makers -- look for an outfit still trying to make parts using union labor in North America. That's a death sentence. [Dana was that company but just came out of bankruptcy.] There are several possibilities but I don't have names off the top of my head.

{I'd say Chrysler but they're privately owned.}

Winn-Dixie Stores. grocery chain just out of bankruptcy but long enough that the real situation is becoming apparent. They are being squeezed between privately owned Publix and Wal-Mart. Publix has over 50% market share in many of the WD markets and caters to the "won't shop anywhere else" senior market, plus the convenience ["it's closest"] market.

Any of these might make a great short.

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For a gas, you could submit a sealed envelope with Monday's date on the outside saying that your real objective was to sell these companies short, and ask the teacher to not open it until the semester is over. Then if you're dead last in the class, you can claim to have won in reality.

Finding three stocks that going to fail can be just as valuable as finding stocks that are going to advance. Stock advisers are always looking for stocks that will go up. Seldom do they advise investors when to sell a stock. Yet that kind of advice can be more important. Finding stocks that will decline is more important than finding those that will advance, because historically the market is advancing. It is easier to find stocks that will go up. You have picked a harder assignment, but you will learn a lot from it. Do your best and you may get the best grade. You can always remind the teacher that you looked for stocks to sell short, and by buying them you simply proved by your losses that you were successful. You could have sold the stocks short, and if you are right you would have a profit.

Look up the Value Line Investment Survey in your local library and you should be able to find stocks that they think will do badly in the future. They analyze and rate almost every stock on the NYSE and other exchanges.

I don't understand your reasoning at all. You have the opportunity to learn about investing which will help you in the future. I think you should forget about your feelings and just complete the project to the best of your ability. Three stocks to look into that are expected in advance are, EMC, RIG, SIRI.

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