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Announcements
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ETFs
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Yellen Update
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Minimum Wage Executive Order
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Earnings preview
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We meet every Sunday at 7:15PM – 8:15PM at
W151 in PBB
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Membership Dues: $20/semester
 Food/Drinks every meeting
 Investment information and education
 Great trading tips and strategies
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Investment Competition: $15/semester
 Best way to gain experience and learn
 Past prizes include iPads, Apple TVs, gift cards
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Fun Discussion atmosphere, member involvement
$15 to enter competition
All money goes to prizes so more people = better
prizes
 Must attend 50% of meetings in order to be
eligible for prizes
 Top 8 get prizes (tentatively)
 Won’t allow high frequency trading or anything
that is unrealistic
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 Starts tomorrow!
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Specialize in Small-Cap Growth
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Oberweis Octagon
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Has been featured on CNBC and Bloomberg
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Writes growth stock column for Forbes
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President
Vice-President
Director of Technology
Director of Volunteering
Director of Marketing
Director of Group Simulations
Director of Finance
Director of Outside Events
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Can run together or alone
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Will do partial presentation sometime in
semester
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Voting will be done late in the semester
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Unless we experience economic disaster,
expect more of the same
Lawmakers takeaway – “unexciting”
Once jobless rate hits 6.5%, other indicators
will be looked at
 Indicates interest rates will still be low even after
goal is met
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Style: matter-of-fact and somewhat
monotonic
Longest report in recent memory
Grilled with loaded questions
“Let me emphasize that I expect a great deal of
continuity in the [Fed’s] approach to monetary
policy.”
 "I don't think it would be helpful, either in terms
of achieving the objectives that Congress has
assigned to us or in terms of Congress' deficit
reduction efforts, for us to purposely raise
interest rates in order to weaken the economy,"
she responded. "The likely impact of that weaker
economy would be larger deficits."
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Wed 12 Feb 14 | 03:02 PM ET
Closing Bell Exchange: Yellen's stock
market gift (1:34 start)
Wed 12 Feb 14 | 02:13 PM ET
Street Fight: Earnings vs. Fed
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ETF – Exchange Traded Fund
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Gives investors simplicity but diversification
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“Basket of Stocks”
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Low expenses
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Stock-like features
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Various types of ETF’s
 Track indexes
 Track international markets
 Sector strategy
 Bonds
 Leveraged
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http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/und
erstanding-etfs/
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SPY, DIA, QQQ, IWM
 S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq, Russell 2000
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VXX, TVIX, XIV
 VIX volatility index, 2x VIX, inverse VIX
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GLD, SLV
 Gold, Silver
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TNA, TZA,
 3x bull small cap, 3x bear small cap
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http://etfdb.com/compare/volume/
Fri 14 Feb 14 | 4:14 PM ET
Under Armour under fire for speed
skating suits
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Raise of minimum wage to $10.10/hour
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Starts January 1st, 2015
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"The executive order the president will sign
today will benefit hundreds of thousands of
people" the White House
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Does this help or hurt the economy?
Mon 10 Feb 14 | 11:57 AM ET
Tesla’s Model S: Worth more used
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Used Tesla worth more than new Model S
 2013: $93,000
 2014: $99,734
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Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf down roughly 1419% vs new price
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Wait for Model S is approximately 6-7 weeks
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Tesla to announce Q4 earnings on
Wednesday after market close
EPS estimates 0.19 cents per share
Estimated Revenue of 663.32M
Tesla already guided revenues higher by 20%
and deliveries at 6,900, which is 15% higher
than guidance
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Guidance Sales and delivery data from Asia,
especially from China
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Delivery Guidance for 2014: Expected delivery
of 40,000 for Model S
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2014 Model X production data
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Stock price increased 435% in a year
Stock is trading all/near all time high
What’s your opinion?
Long/Short?
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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FOMC – Continuation of
taper?
3rd instillation: $55 Billion
THURSDAY
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Market will be closed Monday (Presidents
day)
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“Don’t Fight the Fed”
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FOMC
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Earnings