1. Securities Market Metrics

2. Exchanges vs. Indices Exchanges are where the transaction takes place Index is a measurement of performance Sometimes an Index measures performance of stocks on a specific Exchange Don’t get confused about this…

3. Popular Exchanges NYSE Amex Nasdaq Philly Pacific London Tokyo Hong Kong Other worldwide exchanges After-hours / Electronic exchanges

4. Indices DJA S&P NYSE AMEX NASDAQ Wilshire Russell

5. Dow Jones Industrial (Reliability? Some say yes, some say no….) Transportation Utility Composite (three above)

6. Standard and Poor’s Industrial (400) Transportation (20) Utility (40) Financial (40) Composite (500) Midcap (400) Smallcap (600) Composite 1500 Comparison with Dow (Index vs. Average, Breadth, Accuracy…some argue Dow close enough)

7. Exchange-Related Indices NYSE Indices Amex Nasdaq

8. Wilshire Indices Attempt to reflect the total market value (captures approx. 99% of total market value) A point is worth $1Billion Wilshire reading of 10,000 = $10 Trillion in total value

9. Russell 2000 Measure of small stocks’ performance

10. Individual Stock Data Wall Street Journal Barrons Investor’s Business Daily Multiple On-line Sources Hi/Lo, Close, Last, Bid/Ask, P/E, Div, Yield, Volume, Shares Outstanding

11. Annual Shareholder Reports Reports include key business fundamentals and financial data Operating detail Financial discussion

12. SEC Filings Financial Statements Other documents Key source of information for publicly traded corporations Edgar Database

13. Analyst Reports Upgrades / downgrades Buy / Strong Buy / Hold When does buy mean sell? Earnings Expectations (Meet/Beat/Die)

14. Information On Individual Stocks On-line sources Value-line-valueline \ education \howto Morningstar—Stock selector S&P Barron’s WSJ (Zack’s) Bloomberg

15. How much is a stock worth? When is a stock overvalued? When is the MARKET overvalued? Earnings multiples… Bulls vs. Bears When should you care?