1. Get out your business plan from yesterday…
Write out a list of the reasons why you believe your business will be immensely successful In order to get your business off the ground, you need some starting out money. You will need to convince the person sitting in front/behind you to invest in your company using the list you just made to persuade them.

2. Stock Market Basics

3. Shares/Stock Pieces of ownership in a company
What type of business are we talking about?
Corporations!
Why would a company sell off ownership to other people?
Raise money! (Starting out $, expansion $, etc)
Why would people want to buy shares?
Want part ownership of a company (voting rights)
Hope to make money (as an investment)
Demonstration…..

4. Party Time

5. Making Money Dividends Selling shares
Parts of a company’s profits given to shareholders
Selling shares
Sell your parts of ownership to another investor for a price higher than what you paid

6. Stock Prices High demand for shares = prices go up
Means there is a lot of people wanting to buy that stock
Low demand for shares = prices go down
Means there is a lot of people wanting to sell that stock
LOTS of things impact the demand for shares
Company earnings
Expectations of future performance
Changes in the company

7. Strategies
Video…..

8. Strategies Buy low, sell high Invest in what you know
Use the 52 week (year) range and charts to get an idea of what’s low and what’s high for a stock price
Yahoo! Finance is a great site to use
Invest in what you know
Stick with companies you are familiar with or have done your research on
Don’t let your emotions make your decisions
Stock values fluctuate ALL THE TIME! Don’t make snap decisions based on one day’s changes

10. Quick Review What are you really buying when you purchase shares?
Parts of ownership in the company
Why do companies sell shares of their company?
To raise money
What is a big factor in determining the value of stocks?
Demand for the stocks