Vocab
Stock Symbols
Vocab 2
Financial Scams
What do those letters mean
100

The number of shares traded in a day for a stock

Volume

100

AAPL

Apple

100

A group of people pooling their money to purchase a large number of stocks together

Mutual Fund

100

Martha Stewart receives trading advice from the CEO of a company

Insider Trading

100

This is the largest stock exchange in the world

NYSE

200

Money paid out to investors when a company has extra profits

Dividends

200

MSFT

MicroSoft

200

A loan to the government, pays a set interest rate

Bond

200

Passing off someone else's check as your own

Forgery

200

The fully online trading market

NASDAQ
300

The degree of variation in the price of a financial asset over time, indicating the level of risk associated with it.

Volatility

300

FDX

FedEx

300

A company decides to make themself available to purchase on the stock market

IPO

300

Collecting funds from investors and using it to payout previous investors. 

Ponzi Scheme

300

Benchmark for investors to try and beat

S&P 500

400

A type of mutual fund or ETF that aims to replicate the performance of a specific market index

Index Fund

400

PLAY

Dave and Busters

400

The rate at which the value of money is decreasing

Inflation

400

Using bots and AI to push a stock artificially 

Market Manipulation

400

Industrial Average - market indicator

DJIA

500

A measure of a stock's performance compared to the economy.

Beta

500

HOG

Harley Davidson

500

Spreading out your investments so that your overall portfolio is less risky

Diversification

500

Investing in a stock prior to a larger investment being made in that stock

Frontrunning

500

The return that you receive on your investment

ROI