1. Stocks: The Basics

2. What is a Stock Certificate of Ownership in a corporation
Issued in portions known as shares

3. Benefits of Buying Stocks
Dividends: corporations pay out part of their profits to share holders
Capital gains: investors can sell stock for more then the initial investment

4. How Are Stocks Traded?

5. Stockbroker
Person who links buyers and sellers of stock

6. Brokerage Firms
Businesses that specialize in trading stock

7. Day Trading- This is what MR. Krahulik did
Buying and selling stock many times through out the day.
By the second, minute, hour, etc.
Very risky OR

8. Stock Exchanges
Market for buying and selling of stock

9. New York Stock Exchange
Largest and most powerful
Handles most powerful companies in the world
Largest Companies with highest prices
Blue Chip

10. How Stocks are Measured

11. Bull Market
Bear Market
Steady Rise in Stock
Steady Drop in Stock

12. Dow Jones Industrial Average
Shows the stock performance of the top 30 blue chip companies

13. S & P 500
Shows the price changes of the 500 most popular stocks

14. Reading a stock report

16. New Age Investing