I am doing a school project and I have to buy stock in three corporations. By the end of the project, I could have made three trades total. I was going to invest in Google, IKON and Jackson Hewitt. The ones I thought I might trade for are Wachovia, Microsoft, American Eagle, Johnson and Johnson, and Aeropostale. However, because Microsoft decided not to buy Yahoo, it is predicted their stock will go up. I was thinking of using Microsoft instead of Google, and I want to trade before the market opens tomorrow. I have 10,000 to invest (not for real..we just have to track what we would have if we did actually invest in this). Which of the above stocks do you think I should do? In response to raysor: I know it is a school project. Did you ever think maybe I want to learn about the stock market and how it works? Did you ever think the reason I chose to do this project was because I am interested in the stock market? Did you ever think that I might have asked this question in this category because I thought these people would know best? Hmmm..I think not. Maybe next time I ask a question, rather than wasting my time giving me an answer that basically insults me, just don't answer, okay? Thank you and have a nice day.