Stock Market Today

（i wuold like to what the lines and bars mean and the numbers somebody explain） Answer ： Hi, Superman, Basic chart information does show the price trend of a security. The most important thing to remember, though – is not to make a chart more important than it really is. They can’t foretell the future. [...]

(Sounds naive, I know, but I don’t really understand it ) Answer : You divide a business into 1,000 pieces of ownership. Then you sell them as 1,000 shares. Each shareholder is part owner of the business even tho she doesn’t not show up for work or give orders. If the value of the business [...]

Answer : Given your question, I would not advise you to jump into investing without researching how the markets work and how to evaluate companies. Your comment sounds more like gambling than investing. There are a lot of great resources on the internet that will help you begin investing. One of the best resources I [...]

(We’ve been going over the crash of 1929 and the great depression in A.P. US history the last week or so and i’ve been wondering how the stock market actually works. I know that it’s investors buying/selling shares of companies but I don’t really comprehend how these prices change and how the stock market can [...]

(This is from a website about the stock market crash of 1929: “For every dollar invested, a margin user would borrow 9 dollars worth of stock. Because of this leverage, if a stock went up 1%, the investor would make 10%! ” I don’t understand how the 10% profit was made. Please help!） Answer： What’s [...]