Stocks
Real Life Examples
Finance Terms
100

What is referred to as a 'basket' of multiple stocks?

ETF's

100

What was it called in 2024 where the stock market was trending downwards?

Recession/Bear Market

100

The place in New York where stocks are traded in person

NYSE/Wall Street

200

What would be a better investment for long term? Shorting a stock, or investing in an Index Fund?

Index Fund

200

What is the symbol for Apple on the stock market?

AAPL

200

This tells the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding shares of stock.

Market Cap

300

What is the Fitch rating used for?

It is used to determine the trustworthiness of the stock and whether it is good to invest or not.

300

Name one example of an Online Brokerage Website

Eg. ETrade, Robinhood

300

This is a trading strategy where an individual buys and sells (or sells and buys) the same security in a margin account on the same day in an attempt to profit from small movements in the price of the security.

Day Trading

400

What is a basket of stocks that you purchase a share of- typically based on sectors?

ETF (Exchange Trade Fund)

400

What was one example of a company that was doing significantly (3%+) well in the last month?

Hint: There were two of these companies in Lamarr's Presentation.

Eg. Meta, Alphabet

400

This is when a company's board of directors issues more shares of stock to its current shareholders without diluting the value of their stakes.

Stock Split

500

Stable companies can pay a percentage of their profits back to the shareholders. What are these called?

Dividends

500

What was one example of a company that was doing significantly (3%+) badly in the last month?

Hint: There were two of these companies in Lamarr's Presentation.

Eg. Boeing

500

This is the measure of all the transactions that occur between a buyer and seller of a financial asset during a given period of time

Market Volume