Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Proposal
Today I paused working on my proposal (I am working on the month by month plan on excel) to go back over my Webliography and made changes that were suggested from our peer editors. After I have completely finished my Webliography and my proposal, I plan on moving toward trying to talk to someone who is an expert in either the stock market or investment banking or something, and who is qualified in making recommendations on how to go about handling the current fluctuating economy.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Key Terms
Market Capitalization - Way of estimating company's value: a method of assessing the value of a company by multiplying the number of shares by the stock market price
Short Selling - Sale of securities before payment: the sale of a borrowed security in anticipation that the security price will fall and can be paid back from the profits earned after repurchasing it at the lower price
Annual Report - A publication, including financial statements and a report on operations, issued by a company to its shareholders at the company's fiscal year-end.
Bear Market - A market in which stock prices are falling.
Bull Market - A market in which stock prices are rising.
Commission - The fee charged by an investment advisor or broker for buying or selling securities as an agent on behalf of a client.
Equities - Common and preferred stocks, which represent a share in the ownership of a company.
Freeze - An interruption in trading on a stock, triggered when an order violates parameters set by Market Regulation Services for that particular stock.
Index - A statistical measure of the state of the stock market, based on the performance of stocks. Examples are the S&P/TSX Composite Index and the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index.
Insider - All directors and senior officers of a company, and those who are presumed to have access to inside information concerning the company. An insider is also anyone owning more than 10% of the voting shares of a company.
Continuous Disclosure - A company's ongoing obligation to inform the public of significant corporate events, both favourable and unfavorable.
Penny StockLow-priced speculative issues of stock selling at less than $1.00 a share.
Yield - This is the measure of the return on an investment and is shown as a percentage. A stock yield is calculated by dividing the annual dividend by the stock's current market price. For example, a stock selling at $50 and with an annual dividend of $5 per share yields 10%. A bond yield is a more complicated calculation, involving annual interest payments, plus amortizing the difference between its current market price and par value over the life of the bond.
Money MarketPart - of the capital market established to buy and sell short-term financial obligations. These include federal government treasury bills, short-term Government of Canada bonds, commercial paper, bankers' acceptances and guaranteed investment certificates. Longer-term securities are also traded in the money market when their term shortens to three years.
Liquidity - This refers to how easily securities can be bought or sold in the market. A security is liquid when there are enough units outstanding for large transactions to occur without a substantial change in price. Liquidity is one of the most important characteristics of a good market. Liquidity also refers to how easily investors can convert their securities into cash and to a corporation's cash position, which is how much the value of the corporation's current assets exceeds current liabilities.
Short Selling - Sale of securities before payment: the sale of a borrowed security in anticipation that the security price will fall and can be paid back from the profits earned after repurchasing it at the lower price
Annual Report - A publication, including financial statements and a report on operations, issued by a company to its shareholders at the company's fiscal year-end.
Bear Market - A market in which stock prices are falling.
Bull Market - A market in which stock prices are rising.
Commission - The fee charged by an investment advisor or broker for buying or selling securities as an agent on behalf of a client.
Equities - Common and preferred stocks, which represent a share in the ownership of a company.
Freeze - An interruption in trading on a stock, triggered when an order violates parameters set by Market Regulation Services for that particular stock.
Index - A statistical measure of the state of the stock market, based on the performance of stocks. Examples are the S&P/TSX Composite Index and the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index.
Insider - All directors and senior officers of a company, and those who are presumed to have access to inside information concerning the company. An insider is also anyone owning more than 10% of the voting shares of a company.
Continuous Disclosure - A company's ongoing obligation to inform the public of significant corporate events, both favourable and unfavorable.
Penny StockLow-priced speculative issues of stock selling at less than $1.00 a share.
Yield - This is the measure of the return on an investment and is shown as a percentage. A stock yield is calculated by dividing the annual dividend by the stock's current market price. For example, a stock selling at $50 and with an annual dividend of $5 per share yields 10%. A bond yield is a more complicated calculation, involving annual interest payments, plus amortizing the difference between its current market price and par value over the life of the bond.
Money MarketPart - of the capital market established to buy and sell short-term financial obligations. These include federal government treasury bills, short-term Government of Canada bonds, commercial paper, bankers' acceptances and guaranteed investment certificates. Longer-term securities are also traded in the money market when their term shortens to three years.
Liquidity - This refers to how easily securities can be bought or sold in the market. A security is liquid when there are enough units outstanding for large transactions to occur without a substantial change in price. Liquidity is one of the most important characteristics of a good market. Liquidity also refers to how easily investors can convert their securities into cash and to a corporation's cash position, which is how much the value of the corporation's current assets exceeds current liabilities.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Did you know...
Did you know about the stock market...
· The first stock ticker was invented in 1867.
· The first stock exchange in the U.S. was in Philadelphia in 1970
· The New York stock exchange has less listings then the Bombay stock exchange
· Google has the highest price per stock on the Nasdaq
· In 1979 on the pacific stock exchange a seat was bought for 25 cents
· From 1910 to 1976 there was a stock exchange in Hawaii
· Lion Country Safari has the ticker symbol GRRR
· “$42,110,000 for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (Rail Road) Co. Bond, 100-yr, 4.5%, registered gold, dated 1913, due 2013, 'Series A,' , refunding & improvement issue.” Is the most a railroad stock bond has paid
· The original name for the American stock exchange is ‘The Curb’
· The day when the least amount of stocks was traded was March 16, 1830 with only 16 shares were traded
· The day when the most amount of stocks were traded was January 4, 2001, when 2,129,445,637 shares were traded.
· The first stock ticker was invented in 1867.
· The first stock exchange in the U.S. was in Philadelphia in 1970
· The New York stock exchange has less listings then the Bombay stock exchange
· Google has the highest price per stock on the Nasdaq
· In 1979 on the pacific stock exchange a seat was bought for 25 cents
· From 1910 to 1976 there was a stock exchange in Hawaii
· Lion Country Safari has the ticker symbol GRRR
· “$42,110,000 for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (Rail Road) Co. Bond, 100-yr, 4.5%, registered gold, dated 1913, due 2013, 'Series A,' , refunding & improvement issue.” Is the most a railroad stock bond has paid
· The original name for the American stock exchange is ‘The Curb’
· The day when the least amount of stocks was traded was March 16, 1830 with only 16 shares were traded
· The day when the most amount of stocks were traded was January 4, 2001, when 2,129,445,637 shares were traded.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Resources
I've been Researching investing in the stock market and i believe I have come up with an essential question which is, How can the average person safely invest in the stock market? I also have a some foundation questions:
Is it possible to safely invest?
How safe is safe?
What is the average person?
What are different forms of investments?
Is it possible to safely invest?
How safe is safe?
What is the average person?
What are different forms of investments?
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Stock Exchange
I think i have a direction for my project, that direction being something to do with the stock market. I am not the first person with this idea but i think i can put an original spin on the idea, making it a two part project. The first part could be researching exactly how the stock market works, looking specifically at the average investors risk vs. reward. The second part could be an article that would help people looking to invest figure out exactly what their walking into and try to answer as many peoples questions as possible. This is the idea i came up with today, I have been mainly brainstorming topics and this is the idea i came up with.
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