Stock trading is buying and selling these investments with the intent to make a profit, according to Fidelity investments. When the value of the business rises and falls, so does the stock. “A stock represents a share in the ownership of a company,” according to the Charles Schwab website, a financial services company. Khatib said that the financial industry is often inaccessible to the public due to its “complicated jargon.” He finds it discourages people from understanding what goes on within companies - and confuses retail investors. “If anything, they try to put you into a box and force you to conform,” Khatib said. To Khatib, the prerequisite courses from Questrom “don’t offer much” when it comes to helping students become independent thinkers. He shares Abrams’ philosophy that Questrom does not prepare students to successfully trade stocks. Abrams, a board member of the stock trading club, said that Questrom doesn’t teach you how to apply what you learn in the “real world.” ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHERĪbram’s “mentor” in stock trading, Sami Khatib, a Questrom junior studying investment management, is on the board for the BU stock trading club, where he met Abrams. “Because I’m in the real world, experiencing real losses, which should be more emphasized, especially in schools.” Samson Abrams.

“I learn more than I could in an entire semester of just sitting in a class learning the theory,” Abrams said. In his two years of learning, Questrom School of Business sophomore Samson Abrams - the creator of the Instagram account - found a disconnect between what the real world demanded and school taught. On April 5, a Boston University student walked into a particularly chaotic office to pitch himself to The Daily Free Press editors as a story.

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