basic terms
This is the name given to the monetary value of a company
What is Market Capitalization (Market Cap)?
Penny stocks typically have a value of $__________ or less
What is $5?
This animal is pessimistic, things are going down!
What is a Bear market?
AAPL is the ticker tape name for stock in this company
What is Apple?
The stock market crash of this year ushered in the Great Depression
What is 1929?
What is a shareholder?
The illegal practice of encouraging investors to buy stock with the intent to inflate prices so one may sell their own stocks while price is high.
What is pump and dump?
Pump up the price, dump the stock
This animal is optimistic, things are looking up!
What is a Bull Market?
A private company that sells shares to the public for first time in order to raise capital
What is an IPO - initial public offering?
The day the stock market crashed was known by this name
What is Black Tuesday?
A portion of a company's earning that is paid to the shareholders. May be paid quarterly or annually
What is a dividend?
Businesses sell part ownership of their companies to generate capital ($) to run the company
What is a share?
This refers to the amount of shares being traded
What is Volume?
NYSE stands for
What is New York Stock Exchange?
the NYSE was founded in this year on Wall Street
What is 1792?
Wealthy investors pool their money together to try to beat average market returns
What is a hedge fund?
The value of a company is figured by multiplying these two things
What is #of shares x stock price?
The description of how quickly prices of stocks are going up or down
What is Volutility?
This man, with the initials WB, is considered one of the most successful investors of all time.
Who is Warren Buffet?
This publication, created by Dow and Jones, was created in 1889
What is the Wall Street Journal?
This describes the selling of shares that have been borrowed, hoping that the price will fall before you buy them back and return them to the owner, making a profit
What is SHORT? or Selling SHORT?
Name 4 companies that are valued at more than $1 Trillion
What is Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google?
Buying and selling of stocks within the same 6.5 hour period of time
What is day-trading?
The NASDAQ is an acronym for this phrase
The NASDAQ was founded in this year as the world's first electronic stock market.
What is 1971?