STOCK MARKET

What is it?
Stock markets is the buying and selling of stock. Stock is investing in a part of a business, hold it for a while and sell it for more when the price is up.

Buy low and sell high.
To buy low and sell high means to buy stock when it is at its low end and sell that stock when it has more value. That is how you can make money off of stock.

BASIC RULES OF STOCK

• Monitor your stocks rigorously
• Dont go for the most popular stock
• Dont try to time the the stock
• Keep your emotions under controll
• Only use ypur surplus money to buy stocks

MAJOR US STOCK EXCHANGES

• The New York stock exchange
• The NASDAQ stock exchange
• The AMEX stock exchange
• Large businesses call theese their homes

How investors buy and sell?
Investors buy and sell stock through a stock fund, a discount or full-service broker and a direct stock plan

WHY DO STOCK PRICES CHANGE?

• Price goes up by supply
• The price will go up by demand
• The more people want it the prive will go up
• The more people sell the price goes down

What is the DJIA?
The Dow jones industrial average is the average weight of 30 significant stocks to see if the stock is "up or down" for the day

BEAR VS BULL MARKET

• Bear market is when the market is bad
• Bull market is when the market is good
• Bear people are losing jobs and stock is falling
• Bull is good economy and stock prices are rising