Meeting Concepts
What time does the US stock market open for us (Shanghai CST)?
What is 10:30 PM to 5:00 AM?
Investors seek these stocks with high growth potential, even if they may come with higher risk.
What are Growth Stocks?
When you buy or sell a security at the current market price, you are using this type of order. What is it?
What is a Market Order?
This website hosts our investment simulation competition.
What is "MarketWatch"?
Christmas Special: What traditional Christmas dessert is typically made with ginger, molasses, and often shaped like a person?
What are gingerbread cookies or gingerbread men?
This process involves reinvesting earnings, including interest or dividends, to generate even greater earnings over time.
What is Compounding?
These stocks are typically undervalued and considered a bargain, appealing to value investors.
What are Value Stocks?
This order is only valid for the current trading day and automatically expires if not executed by the market close. What is it?
What is a Day Order?
Christmas Special What's Santa's favorite social media platform for sharing his holiday selfies?
Hint: Think Instagram
What is "Elfstagram"?
The ticker symbol "V"
Think credit card services
What is Visa Inc.
Christmas Special: What jolly, bearded man in a red suit is known for delivering presents to children around the world on Christmas Eve?
Who is Santa Claus?
Investors looking for safer and fixed returns often turn to these financial instruments. Require the borrower to repay the principal thus the investor knows they will be repaid their initial investment, thus making it safer.
What are Bonds/Fixed-Income Securities?
What term is used for when you sell or borrow securities with the anticipation of buying them back at a lower price, profiting from a price decline?
What is shorting?
This famous trader, who lived from 1877 to 1940, earned his risky fortune by shorting the market during critical periods.
Who is Jesse Livermore?
What does the runner-up team of the Hadrian Capital MarketWatch competition earn?
What is 3000 RMB?
This financial concept accounts for the idea that money today is worth more than the same amount in the future.
Hint: TVM is the acronym
What is the Time Value of Money?
Christmas Special: In the song "Frosty the Snowman," what made Frosty come to life?
What is a magic hat?
Christmas Special: What do you get if you cross a snowman and a vampire?
What is "Frostbite"?
The total number of shares of a security traded during a given time period is commonly referred to as what?
What is Volume?
What do you use to buy things and pay for stuff?
What is "money"?
This market is where newly issued securities are first offered to the public (IPO's).
What is the Primary Market?
These stocks represent well-established, financially stable companies with a history of strong performance.
Hint: Name starts with a primary colour
What are Blue Chip Stocks?
When you place an order to buy a security you previously shorted, closing out your short position, what is this action called?
What is Buy to Cover?
Name of the movie we watched last meeting in the glass room?
What is "A Beautiful Mind"
When your stockbroker gives you advice while wearing a clown nose, you might want to consider finding a more ___________ professional.
What is a "Serious"?
Regular cash payments that companies make to their shareholders, typically from a portion of their profits. A company board of directors normally determines these and is the distribution of a company’s earnings to shareholders.
What are Dividends?
These stocks are characterized by their low share prices, often trading for less than $5 per share, and are associated with higher risk.
Hint: Name starts with a type of coin
What are Penny Stocks?
If you want your stock order to remain active until you manually cancel it or it gets executed, you would use this type of order. What is it?
Hint: Acronym is GTC
What is a Good Till Cancelled order?
This term represents the highest and lowest prices at which a security has traded during the past year. What is it?
Hint: A year is 52 weeks
What is the 52-Week Range?
This term refers to the difference between a stock's lowest and highest prices during a single trading session.
Hint: ___ range
What is "day range"?