Stock Market Basics
This represents ownership in a company.
What is a stock?
A market where stock prices are rising.
What is a bull market?
This famous crash happened in 1929 and led to the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This company, known for the iPhone, is part of the Mag 7.
What is Apple?
This sector includes companies focused on software, hardware, and innovation.
What is the technology sector?
The place where buyers and sellers trade stocks.
What is a stock exchange?
A market where stock prices are falling.
What is a bear market?
This U.S. stock exchange is located on Wall Street.
What is the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange)?
This company created Windows and is led by Satya Nadella.
What is Microsoft?
This popular app-based brokerage made stock trading accessible to beginners.
What is Robinhood?
This term refers to a company selling shares to the public for the first time.
What is an IPO (Initial Public Offering)?
This measures how much a stock pays shareholders regularly.
What is a dividend?
This index tracks 30 large U.S. companies and is one of the oldest benchmarks.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This company is known for electric vehicles and is led by Elon Musk.
What is Tesla?
This trend refers to individual investors coordinating trades online, like GameStop in 2021.
What is meme stock trading?
If you own many different stocks to reduce risk, you are doing this.
What is diversification?
This term describes how easily a stock can be bought or sold.
What is liquidity?
This financial crisis occurred in 2008 due largely to housing market issues.
What is the 2008 Financial Crisis?
This company is best known for its search engine called Google.
What is Alphabet Inc.?
This technology is currently driving massive investment in companies like NVIDIA.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
If you make money, this is the difference between what you paid for a stock and what you sold it for.
👉 What is a capital gain or profit?
This ratio compares a company’s stock price to its earnings.
What is the P/E ratio?
This electronic exchange, known for tech stocks, was founded in 1971.
What is NASDAQ?
This company leads in AI chips and GPUs, powering much of today’s AI boom.
What is NVIDIA?
This “Magnificent 7” company is famous for selling products through its online store and fast delivery.
What is Amazon?