Download The Stock Market

The Stock Market
Buying, Selling, and Trading parts of
businesses you own for cash.
UEQ and LEQ
• UEQ: How can JA Finance Park teaching you to
use financial institutions to your benefit?
• LEQ: How can investing money into the stock
market be beneficial to your financial future
but at the same time risky?
Vocabulary
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Stock
Bond
Mutual Fund
Wall Street
Dow Jones
S&P 500
NasDaq
Rate of return
Taxable/Tax-Deferred Investment
Stock Market: Nuts and Bolts
• Watch this short clip, while watching write
down some important facts that you hear.
• The Stock Market
• Watch another very short clip, answer this,
“why invest your money into buying stock?”
• New York Stock Exchange
Stock Market
• Summarize the Stock Market
– Go To Google, type in “The Stock Market,” click on
the site titled The Stock Market (should say
library.thinkquest as the site)
– Working with a partner read over:
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The Beginning
How It Works
Rules
Crashes
• Summarize each section using markers on the
poster paper I have given you, write down the
most important facts, dates, people, ideas.
The Stock Market
• Center of the U.S. and World economies.
• Location where businesses have stock bought
and sold daily.
– Estimated Value of World Markets: $36.6 trillion
• Allow for all individuals to own parts of
different companies, but money is required to
purchase and own stock.
Stock Exchange (Stock Market)
New York Stock Exchange
Stock
• Bought and sold daily.
• Parts of companies that people buy for
money.
– Fast way for businesses to make money
– Fast way for people to make money
Two Ways to Look At It:
If Business is
Stock will be
If Business is
Stock will be
Your Money is
Your Money is
Stock
Stock Market/Stock Cartoon
What is the Message here?
A Delicate Balance or Disaster
Graphing Stock
• The easiest way to track stock besides,
watching its dollar value increase or decrease
is to graph the stock.
– Student Workbook Page 33
• Read over the directions and using the figures in the
chart provided, graph each of the three stocks.
• Hint: to see which stock is which draw the graph line for
each stock differently and in a different color.
– Discussion of chart
Graphing Stock
How To Read Stock/Stock Facts
• Look Over: “How To Read Stock Listings”
– Discussion of Listings
• Complete: “How Do I Read Stock Quotations?”
– Discussion of Answers
Stock Value Assignment
• You are now going to pick 9 stocks and using
the laptops determine 9 companies you wish
to buy stock in, how much the stock is worth
currently, and how much money you would
have invested in that stock.
– Turn to page 36 in your workbooks
– Using the stapled packet I have given you pick
nine companies, go to Google and type in
“company name” followed by “ticker symbol”
– Use the information provided and the calculator
to figure out the rest.
Exit Ticket
• After looking at stocks, the stock market, how
to read stock, and how to determine stock
value, using your own opinion, how difficult
do you think it is to buy/sell stock and keep
track of stock that you own?
• Also, explain whether or not you play the
stock market when you get older, and provide
and advantage and disadvantage of doing so.