Glossary
 
 

There are so many stock terms out there and we couldn't list all of them here.
We are just listing a few you may have heard and some basic ones to get you started.

American Stock Exchange
A place where stocks and bonds are bought and sold. An association of stockbrokers.

Bear Market 
A  time when prices in the market are generally declining.  A lot of stocks are sold in this kind of market.

Bond-
A bond is like an IOU. A corporation or the government let's you buy it's bonds and they sign a contract that at the end of the year or any given time they will give you back the money you invested plus interest on that money.

Brokerage
The business of a broker. A broker's fee.
Broker
Brokers buy and sell stocks for their customers.

Bullish
Generally a period of time in which prices for stocks are on the  rise.  A lot of stocks are bought in this kind of market.

Compounded Interested
How your investments multiply over a period of time.

Dividends
The money or profits the company gives the stock holder.

Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow is composed of thirty major stocks divided by the price of each stock to give you an average of how the market is doing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average includes 30 stocks.

Earnings
The money that a company earns (profits) at the end of the year

Finance
The science of managing money.

High Yield
When a stock or bond can give you a high percentage back on your investment.
Investor
A person who owns stock in a company is called an investor.
Market
The word used to describe the buying or selling in the stock market.

Nasdaq
The Nasdaq is the stock exchange that sells a lot of smaller company's stock and a lot of the technology company's stocks.
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is a marketplace in which it has 3,100 stocks. It is where stock brokers buy and sell stocks. It is located in New York City.

Principal
The initial money you invest in a stock.
Split
When a company wants to get more people to invest in their stocks, they offer more stocks to be sold. They offer two for one to current stock holders.

Stock
A way for business to collect money from investors to expand their company. Investors get shares of stock (Fancy Paper) that tells you, you own part of the company.

StockBroker
A person who has a license to sell stocks.

Stock Holder
Someone who owns at least one share or (stock) of a company is a stock holder.

Trade
When brokers are selling or buying stocks.
Trend
A trend in the market means that the stock is getting popular or it is losing it's popularity. 
 

Yield 
What a stock will pay to its investors. Yield is the stock price divided by the dividends per share.