Hi once again to all of my classmates. For this exercise, I made a = practice stock portfolio using the E*trade web site. I invested in the = stocks listed below and actually "made" $1,224 from November 6 through = November 14. Cha-Ching!! GM General Motors Corporation F Ford Motor Company BA Boeing Company GD General Dynamics Corporation INTC Intel Corporation FCS Fairchild Semiconductor Incorporated A ALTFX Alliance Technology A TOY Toys R Us Incorporated WEN Wendy's International Incorporated K Kellogg Company The listing of my portfolio is shown in this table: Symbol Sold Qty Paid + / - Market Value GM 46.03 230.2556 43.43 $599 $10,599=20 F 16.34 610.5006 16.38 $-24 $9,976=20 BA 34.10 281.5315 35.52 $-400 $9,600=20 GD 79.50 118.5115 84.38 $-578 $9,422=20 INTC 31.32 353.9823 28.25 $1,087 $11,087=20 FCS 22.60 433.0879 23.09 $-212 $9,788=20 ALTFX 66.33 156.9366 63.72 $410 $10,410=20 TOY 22.74 452.4887 22.10 $290 $10,290=20 WEN 29.24 355.7453 28.11 $402 $10,402=20 K 30.60 315.4574 31.70 $-347 $9,653=20 $101,224=20 E*trade http://www.etrade.com Note: I also investigated Yahoo! and The League of American Investors, = but found E*trade more a little more straightforward and easier to use. I = did have to register with them in order to get a user ID and password = before setting up my practice portfolio. John D. Rossi Lansing Board of Water & Light Information Technology Resource Center desk: 517-702-6364 fax: 517-702-6675