you might want to split up the “permanent” portion of your porfolio into high dividend producing holdings…

I would recommend that you check out the .com sites
CEFA
ETFconnent
Powershares
statestreet
tulipsandbears
amex

screen for high dividend and high growth
remember to diversify globally

you might want to check out
IAF, IFN, RNE, GIM, PEO, EWO, EWJ

For high risk, high reward
some penny stocks
look up “master limited partnerships”……a LOT of oil/oil services with nav upside and a steady dividend

Good hunting

You might look at for a list of ETFs that represent indexes. You can buy sectors such as natural resouces, energy, financial, most all others.

Holiday season are coming up, look for stocks that might be driven up in anticipation of a good shopping season. You might want to look at;
ebay
bby
wmt
tgt
erts

Hedge yourself against stock crash with DXD or DOG or SH as your speculative investment portion(short ETF funds trading as stocks)…..then blue chip golds like GG, NEM at 10%, followed by alternative fuel bluechips like ADM 10%,…the rest your choice.

I’m not sure if you can add Penny Stocks to your portfolio. Here is a great site to view Picks and submit your own!

Great question and great class. Your teacher is testing your research skills. Take stocks from each sector in companies you know about and that are doing well why, I’ll tell you why this is not your money that counts it is a lesson for you to take with you for later in life. You do not invest in stocks for short runs of times, you will lose 9 out of 10 times.

The sectors you will need to focus on short run potential are Energy, Financial, Consumer Staples and Industrials. Consumer Discritionary, Telecom and Information Technology need some economic help before taking off again.

for the 400K I would recommend:

Microsoft
Pepsi
Disney
Mazda
Shell
Capital One
McDonalds
Sears
Nike
& Amcan

for the 100K metal/gold mining

Is this an Investment and Portfolio class?

Listen, invest in alternative energy fuels. Also monitor the health field.

Try a new company called Orasure. They make the only government approved self-administered HIV test. (OSUR)

If any troubles–email me–I make my living trading stocks

Try AMX and SBUX
AMX is amercamobile, the company that make the third richest person.
SBUX is starbucks

Energy, Budwieser. and Honda