Investing Strategies
A technique that reduces risk by allocating investments across various financial instruments, industries, and other categories.
What is diversification?
On April 8, 2026, stock markets surged and oil prices plummeted after the U.S. and this country agreed to a surprise two-week ceasefire.
What is Iran?
This term describes the general increase in prices and the fall in the purchasing value of money.
What is inflation?
This is the name of the biggest stock exchange in the world, located in America.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
This legendary investor is known as the "Oracle of Omaha" and serves as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Who is Warren Buffet?
Investors using this strategy focus on young, fast-moving companies that are expected to increase their sales and profits at an above-average rate.
What is growth investing?
In November 2025, this chip company's blockbuster earnings helped calm AI fears and pull markets out of a slump.
What is Nvidia?
When the Federal Reserve wants to help the economy grow, it does this to interest rates.
What is lower (or cut) them?
A distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by the board of directors, paid to a class of its shareholders.
What is a dividend?
This is any one of four factors that drive the real estate market.
What are demographics, interest rates, the economy, and government politics/subsidies.
This strategy, famously used by Warren Buffett, involves looking for "bargain" companies whose stock price is lower than what the company is actually worth.
What is value investing?
When oil prices rise sharply due to conflict in the Middle East, stocks in this sector tend to benefit the most.
This term describes when a market, sector or asset price rises far above its actual value, sometimes ending in a sharp crash.
What is a bubble?
The acronym "P/E" stands for this, the most common way to see if a stock is expensive or cheap.
What is price-to-earnings ratio?
The finance industry’s unofficial ‘tier’ system is separated into target, non-target and this.
What is semi-target?
An advanced strategy where you sell a stock you don't own, hoping the price drops so you can buy it back cheaper later.
What is short selling (shorting)?
This market fell heavily during the Strait of Hormuz, its biggest single day crash on record.
What is the Korean stock market?
The Federal Reserve’s stated long-term goal for the annual inflation rate is this percentage.
What is 2%?
This is the term for a contract that gives you the RIGHT but not the obligation to buy or sell a stock at a set price (gone over recently).
What is an option?
This is considered the first market bubble in history, occurring in the 1960s.
What is Tulip Mania?
A strategy where you invest a set amount of money (like $50) every single month, regardless of whether the market is up or down.
What is dollar-cost averaging?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This market indicator, often called the "fear gauge," spiked the last few days and when investors are panicking and selling stocks rapidly. It represents the market's expectation of 30-day forward-looking volatility for the S&P 500 Index.
What is the VIX (Volatility Index)?
He is the head of the Federal Reserve.
Who is Jerome Powell?
This indicator measures a stock's volatility.
What is the beta?
Abigail Johnson, a prominent businesswomen in the finance industry, is the CEO of this company.
What is Fidelity Investments?