CALABASAS STUDENTS TOP OF THEIR CLASS IN STOCK TIPS.Byline: Barbara Correa Staff Writer CALABASAS - Individual investors wondering whether it's safe to re-enter re·en·ter also re-en·ter v. re·en·tered, re·en·ter·ing, re·en·ters v.tr. 1. To enter or come in to again. 2. To record again on a list or ledger. v.intr. the stock market might want to ask the seventh- and eighth-graders from Alan Meyer's stock market class at the Viewpoint School  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . Investing tips from the junior pundits-in-training at Viewpoint are being published on Page 5 today in the Readers Forum column of The Wall Street Journal-Sunday. After reading a Journal article in class last week about investing techniques, titled ``Don't get eaten alive on Wall Street,'' the students were invited to e-mail their ideas about investing in to the paper. The next morning, The Wall Street Journal called to say it wanted to share the kids' market intelligence with its readers. In addition to the Daily News, the students' letters appear today in nearly 80 other newspapers carrying The Wall Street Journal-Sunday nationwide, reaching about 11 million homes. The students, now experts on price-to-earnings ratios, historic stock charting and oil's impact on the economy, were nonplussed non·plus tr.v. non·plused also non·plussed, non·plus·ing also non·plus·sing, non·plus·es also non·plus·ses To put at a loss as to what to think, say, or do; bewilder. n. by the attention. On a visit to the class Friday, most of them were more interested in logging on to ``Matrix''-related Web sites than to NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange .com. But they do know their stuff. ``I think real estate is much better than stocks, for a kid,'' said Derek Spunt, 14, who said he put $10,000 from his bar mitzvah Bar Mitzvah (bärmĭts`və) [Aramaic,=son of the Commandment], Jewish ceremony in which the young male is initiated into the religious community, according to tradition at the age of 13 years and a day. into commercial real estate a year ago, and now receives checks every month from the investment. ``My dad said I could spend it if I made my grades,'' he said. ``I bought a paintball paintball Sports medicine A sport in which marble-sized gelatin capsules filled with a nontoxic dye are shot at speeds of 300 kph/200 mph Warning: gun for $800.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Stock market teacher Alan Meyer, center, helps seventh- and eighth-graders in his Viewpoint School stock class. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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