eek low in price would gain momentum. Furthermore I made sure that I was choosing companies that were in diverse industries. I also included some international companies as well as some relatively smaller firms to add to my portfolio. My strategy on buying bonds was to buy four bonds that had different maturity dates, and came from different issuers such as corporate and government bonds. After I used the Wall Street Journal to find stocks that were near their 52-week low I monitored my stocks by viewing some time series charts that I found on the stocktrak homepage. I will now go into detail on each of my 29 buy decisions, all of them occurring on September 10th and each being held for 70 days. I organized my investments in order from the highest annualized holding period returns to the lowest, starting with stocks and finishing with bonds. Rainbow Technologies Inc. Ticker Symbol: RNBO Shares Bought: 725 Beginning Stock Price: $13.2500 Ending Stock Price: $20.5000 Holding Period Return: 1.5472 Annualized Holding Period Return: 8.7343 While looking at Rainbow Technologies I noticed that it was a volatile stock. It was priced over $26 per share in early January. It then decreased to below $10 per share in July during its 52 week low. It continued to rise quite nicely after I bought it. Ameritrade Holding Corporation Ticker Symbol: AMTD Shares Bought: 400 Beginning Stock Price: $18.9375 Ending Stock Price: $28.1250 Holding Period Return: 1.4851 Annualized Holding Period Return: 6.8642 Ameritrade is also a very volatile stock, which had just begun to get recognized by a lot of traders last year. Its price zoomed up from below $5 per share in April of 1998 to over $60 per share in January of this year. The stock has since decreased steadily until right before I bought it. The stock is still rising and at last look is over $30 per share. Sony Corporation Ticker Symbol: SNE Shares Bought: 75 Beginning Stock Price: $130.8125 Ending Stock Price...
