Stock Market Basics
Bull vs. Bear
Stock Symbols
Trading Strategies
Banking On It
100
What does "IPO" stand for?
Initial Public Offering
100
A rising stock market is called this kind of market.
A bull market
100
What is the stock ticker symbol for Apple?
AAPL
100
What is "buying low and selling high" an example of?
Basic investment strategy
100
This financial institution stores money, offers loans, and provides checking accounts.
What is a bank?
200
What is the term for a company that shares its profits with shareholders?
Dividend
200
A long-term economic downturn has caused stock prices to fall for months.
What is Bear?
200
What company does the ticker symbol "TSLA" belong to?
Tesla
200
What does "short selling" mean?
Betting that a stock will go down in price
200
This U.S. central bank controls interest rates and monetary policy.
What is the US Federal Reserve
300
If you own a stock and it increases in price, what type of gain is this?
Capital Gain
300
Stocks are plummeting, and panic selling is spreading across Wall Street.
What is Bear?
300
What is the stock ticker for Berkshire Hathaway’s Class A shares?
What is BRK.A
300
What type of trader makes multiple trades within a single day?
A day trader
300
This banking term refers to the process of lending out funds to borrowers while charging them interest.
What is commercial lending?
400
What is the primary index used to measure the performance of the top 30 U.S. companies?
Dow Jones Industrial Average
400
What is a bull market?
400
This investment fund, designed to mirror the performance of the NASDAQ-100 index.
What is the Invesco QQQ Trust
400
What strategy involves regularly investing a fixed amount of money regardless of stock price?
Dollar-cost averaging
400
The rate at which banks lend money to each other overnight is called this.
What is the federal funds rate?
500
What does it mean if a stock is "blue-chip"?
It’s a well-established, financially stable company
500
What is a bearish market?
500
This exchange-traded fund (ETF) trades under the symbol SPY.
What is SPDR S&P 500 ETF?
500
What is the difference between a market order and a limit order?
Market order buys/sells immediately, limit order waits for a set price
500
What are the "Big Four" banks?
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America