Stock Basics
This term refers to owning a piece of a company.
What is a share (or stock)?
The ticker for Apple Inc.
What is AAPL?
This company’s mascot is a green gecko.
What is GEICO?
This day in October 1987 saw the biggest one-day stock
market crash in history.
What is Black Monday?
A long-term investor is often called this farm animal.
What is a bull?
A place where stocks are bought and sold.
What is a stock exchange?
This online retailer trades under AMZN.
What is Amazon?
This social media platform was acquired by Elon Musk.
What is Twitter (now X)?
The dot-com bubble burst in this year.
What is 2000?
A trader who sells borrowed shares hoping to buy back cheaper.
What is a short seller?
The Dow Jones tracks this many companies.
What is 30?
TSLA is the ticker for this electric vehicle company.
What is Tesla?
This company makes the iPhone.
What is Apple?
The year of the Great Depression’s stock market crash.
What is 1929?
This opposite animal represents falling markets.
What is a bear?
This order type executes a trade at a specific price or better.
What is a limit order?
NVDA is the ticker symbol for this chipmaker.
What is NVIDIA?
This company was once the world’s largest cell phone maker, but is
now mostly in telecom infrastructure.
What is Nokia?
This index hit 1,000 for the first time in 1972.
What is the Dow Jones
Industrial Average?
This term refers to buying the dip in a risky way.
What is YOLO investing?
The first sale of stock by a private company to the public.
What is an IPO (Initial Public Offering)?
BRK.A and BRK.B belong to this Warren Buffett-run company.
What is Berkshire Hathaway?
This Seattle-based company owns Whole Foods.
What is Amazon?
The S&P 500 is composed of this many companies.
What is 500?
Slang for a stock that rapidly increases in price.
What is a rocket (or
moonshot)?