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3.  We meet every Sunday at 7:15PM – 8:15PM at W151 in PBB  Membership Dues: $20/semester  Food/Drinks every meeting  Investment information and education  Great trading tips and strategies  Investment Competition: $15/semester  Best way to gain experience and learn  Past prizes include iPads, Apple TVs, gift cards  Fun Discussion atmosphere, member involvement

4.  $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  Starts tomorrow!

5.  Specialize in Small-Cap Growth  Oberweis Octagon  Has been featured on CNBC and Bloomberg  Writes growth stock column for Forbes

6.  President  Vice-President  Director of Technology  Director of Volunteering  Director of Marketing  Director of Group Simulations  Director of Finance  Director of Outside Events

7.  Can run together or alone  Will do partial presentation sometime in semester  Voting will be done late in the semester

9.  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

10.  Style: matter-of-fact and somewhat monotonic  Longest report in recent memory  Grilled with loaded questions

11.  “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."

12. Closing Bell Exchange: Yellen's stock market gift (1:34 start) Wed 12 Feb 14 | 03:02 PM ET

13. Street Fight: Earnings vs. Fed Wed 12 Feb 14 | 02:13 PM ET

14.  ETF – Exchange Traded Fund  Gives investors simplicity but diversification  “Basket of Stocks”  Low expenses  Stock-like features

15.  Various types of ETF’s  Track indexes  Track international markets  Sector strategy  Bonds  Leveraged

16.  http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/und erstanding-etfs/ http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/und erstanding-etfs/

19.  SPY, DIA, QQQ, IWM  S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq, Russell 2000  VXX, TVIX, XIV  VIX volatility index, 2x VIX, inverse VIX  GLD, SLV  Gold, Silver  TNA, TZA,  3x bull small cap, 3x bear small cap  http://etfdb.com/compare/volume/ http://etfdb.com/compare/volume/

23. Under Armour under fire for speed skating suits Fri 14 Feb 14 | 4:14 PM ET

28.  Raise of minimum wage to $10.10/hour  Starts January 1 st, 2015  "The executive order the president will sign today will benefit hundreds of thousands of people" the White House

29.  Does this help or hurt the economy?

32. Tesla’s Model S: Worth more used Mon 10 Feb 14 | 11:57 AM ET

33.  Used Tesla worth more than new Model S  2013: $93,000  2014: $99,734  Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf down roughly 14- 19% vs new price  Wait for Model S is approximately 6-7 weeks

34.  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

35.  Guidance Sales and delivery data from Asia, especially from China  Delivery Guidance for 2014: Expected delivery of 40,000 for Model S  2014 Model X production data

37.  Stock price increased 435% in a year  Stock is trading all/near all time high  What’s your opinion?  Long/Short?

38. TUESDAYWEDNESDAY  FOMC – Continuation of taper?  3 rd instillation: $55 Billion

39. THURSDAY

40.  Market will be closed Monday (Presidents day)  “Don’t Fight the Fed”  FOMC  Earnings