When we walked into the room yesterday all the lights were turned off and a couple projectors were playing vidoes of an actual stock exchange. The thing most people noticed was the candy all over the floor and tables. Each type of candy represented a different stock, and different colors of Laffy Taffy represented actual money. For example, banana was $5, cherry was $10 and so on. We then started our exchange, we had a few minutes to pick up as much candy as we could and gather it in our group. In the end I wished we would have gotten more at the beginning, my group was a little shy about grabbing the candy at first but it would have helped to have more to begin with. Then Mr. Kapptie wrote the prices of each type of candy on the white board. We aslo had gold and silver hersheys that represented actual gold and silver. Our class started trading pretty good right away and it became very hectic. Mostly because the prices changed every two minutes and we never knew if it would be positive or negative. This made us think about our actions more.
At first my group started trying to get as much gold as possible. We realized that some of the other candy had a lot of potential to grow a lot though too. Mr. Kapptie told us that Mr. Goodbars owner was in a scandal so we sold most of ours and bought it back when it was cheap because we thought it would go back up again. It also helped taht we had several Krackle bars when their company split. In the long run though, our gold was our biggest profit. In the end we had a little over $3000.
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