Investing Basics
Buying this gives you a small ownership share in a company.
What is a stock?
This company makes the iPhone.
What is Apple?
True or false: You can lose money when investing.
What is true?
Buy for $10 and sell for $15. This is your profit, ignoring fees.
What is $5?
This animal describes a market with generally rising prices.
What is a bull?
This is money earned for lending or depositing money.
What is interest?
This company makes Air Jordan shoes.
What is Nike?
Spreading money across different investments is called this.
What is diversification?
Buy 4 shares at $25 each. This is your total cost.
What is $100?
This animal describes a market with generally falling prices.
What is a bear?
This investment is a loan to a company or government.
What is a bond?
This company created Facebook and owns Instagram.
What is Meta?
True or false: A guaranteed huge return with no risk is a warning sign.
What is true?
A $100 investment grows by 10%. This is its new value.
What is $110?
A short code like AAPL identifies a stock. It is called this.
What is a ticker symbol?
This happens when your earnings start earning their own earnings.
What is compounding?
This company is known for electric cars and the Model Y.
What is Tesla?
Investing the same dollar amount at regular intervals is called this.
What is dollar-cost averaging?
Buy for $50 and sell for $40. This is your percentage loss.
What is 20%?
This is the collection of investments you own.
What is a portfolio?
This type of fund aims to track a market index, such as the S&P 500.
What is an index fund?
This company started as an online bookstore and created AWS.
What is Amazon?
Money saved for unexpected expenses is called this.
What is an emergency fund?
$100 grows 10% to $110, then another 10%. This is the final value.
What is $121?
This is a payment a company may make to shareholders from its profits.
What is a dividend?