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Title: Basic Stock Market Notes
Description: The basic information you need to know about stock markets such as the risks, the benefits, types of stocks, stock splits, trading stocks, futures options.
Description: The basic information you need to know about stock markets such as the risks, the benefits, types of stocks, stock splits, trading stocks, futures options.
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Topic: Stock Market
Main Ideas
Buying Stocks
Date:
Details
● Stock is issued in portions known as
shares
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Benefits of
buying stocks
● The difference between the higher selling
price and the lower purchase price is
called a capital gain
● An investor who sells a stock at a price,
lower than purchase price, however,
suffers a capital loss
...
● Growth stock
○ This stock pays a few or no
dividends
...
● Preferred stock
○ Investors who buy preferred stock are
non-voting owners of the company
...
Risks of Buying
Stocks
● Purchasing stocks is risky because the
firm selling the stock may earn lower
profits
...
How Stocks are
Traded
...
○ A stockbroker usually work with
individual investors, advising them to
buy or sell particular stocks
...
Stock Exchanges
● Stock is bought and sold on stock
exchanges, or markets for buying and
selling stocks
...
● Similarly, options are contracts that give
investors the choice to buy or sell stock
and other financial assets
...
● The option to sell shares of stock at a
specified time in the future is called a put
option
Title: Basic Stock Market Notes
Description: The basic information you need to know about stock markets such as the risks, the benefits, types of stocks, stock splits, trading stocks, futures options.
Description: The basic information you need to know about stock markets such as the risks, the benefits, types of stocks, stock splits, trading stocks, futures options.