Stock Market Basics in Sinhala (සිංහල)

Explore stock market basics, including tickers, orders (buy, sell, limit), and the order book, while examining market capitalization, outstanding and floating shares, and the stock market index.

Explore the stock market basics with a focus on paper trading, how to submit buy and sell orders, and practice end-to-end trading in a simulated account.

Set clear expectations for recording this course, detailing equipment needs like a high quality camera and microphone, Zoom workflows, and course upload to e-learning platforms.

The lecture introduces the speaker's stock market background and explains how webinars, personal and group training cover stocks and options for the Sri Lankan community in Singapore.

Identify the course's target audience—early career professionals, especially software engineers in fintech—and present a practical introduction to stock market basics, investor concepts, and key order types.

Explain why investing in the stock market can help grow wealth amid inflation, using compounding returns and value investing, with comparisons to savings, bonds, real estate, and gold.

Explore how investments can help you beat inflation, with examples from the stock market and bonds, and how diverse options yield annual returns.

Explore the power of compounding in investing, showing how initial capital grows with annual returns over long-term holds and retirement planning, with an example and a compounding calculator.

Learn how the stock market works by buying and selling shares that represent company ownership, and earn money through dividends or by selling shares at a higher price.

Define what a stock exchange is, how it facilitates ownership transfer, and explain trading hours, including pre-market and after-market, across major exchanges.

Explain pre-market, regular trading, and aftermarket sessions with times from 4 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Explore the differences between public and private companies, including ownership, stock market trading, disclosure rules, and how public information drives investor decisions.

Learn how a private company becomes public through an initial public offering (IPO) to raise capital, determine valuation, set share price, and list on the stock market.

Explore why companies go public and how investors buy during the ipo process, including company valuation, share price, and raising funds via the Colombo stock exchange.

Learn how a stock brokerage acts as the middleman to facilitate stock transactions, connecting buyers and sellers to exchanges with licensed brokers and trading tools.

Learn how to choose a brokerage and compare top brokers worldwide, including Sri Lankan brokerages, while evaluating tools, regulation, security, and insurance for accounts.

Understand trade volume as the total shares exchanged in a transaction over a specific period, such as one month, with examples from Tesla, Google, and Amazon.

Explore how brokerages charge commissions, comparing fixed and tiered structures, including minimum per order, per-share rates, trade volume effects, and regulatory and clearing fees.

Explore the differences between individual and joint brokerage accounts, including ownership, suitability for investors, and how family or partner accounts affect access and decision making.

Understand the settlement date as the moment ownership transfers and payment finalizes after a stock trade. Learn how t plus two timelines shape settlement in brokerage accounts.

Understand unsettled funds in cash and margin accounts, t+2 settlement timing, and how brokers lend against unsettled proceeds, with margin interest accruing on loans.

Learn how to choose the right base currency for your brokerage account, comparing US dollar and Singapore dollar options, multi-currency support, and how currency choice affects pricing and reporting.

Understand net liquidity as the total value of your investment account if all positions were closed and settled at current market prices, reflecting cash balance and current market values.

Explain how dollar-cost averaging works by buying more shares at lower prices to lower the average cost, enabling recovery if the stock rebounds, as shown with a Tesla example.

Learn how to deposit funds into your brokerage account using the deposit option, linking your bank details and entering account numbers and IDs for US dollar deposits.

Discover how to deposit funds into your IBKR brokerage account, choose a base currency, and convert between US dollars and Singapore dollars to fund US and international trades.

Learn how buy orders and sell orders work in the stock market, with clear definitions and examples of using orders to realize profits from rising stock prices.

Explore realized versus unrealized profit and loss, clarified by completing transactions and comparing current holdings to initial purchase prices before selling.

Learn how the order book lists all buy and sell orders for a stock, showing bid and ask sides, quantities, prices, and the ticker symbol.

Explains the order book, defines bid and ask prices, and shows how buy side and sell side orders determine real-time stock prices and market data.

See how the trading system matches buy and sell orders for the same stock by price priority and first-come, first-served rules, then executes to transfer ownership and settle trades.

Understand limit, market, stop, and stop-limit orders, and learn how time-in-force options like GTC, IOC, and day affect execution and price guarantees.

Learn stock market basics, including US market hours (open Monday to Friday; weekends closed), order types (limit, market, stop), and how execution and liquidity work on a trading platform. Practice with a paper trading account and submitting orders during regular and outside regular trading hours.

Learn to place stock orders using a paper trading account, exploring order types such as market, limit, and stop-limit, and how to submit and monitor orders on a trading platform.

Explore liquidity concepts, show how high liquidity stabilizes prices and enables quick execution, and explain trading outside regular hours—pre-market and after-market sessions—with examples like Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla.

Master a live trading account in a paper-trading setup, place buy and sell orders, and monitor portfolio value, cost basis, and daily and unrealized P&L during regular trading hours.

Learn to place limit and market orders during regular trading hours, understanding order types, price settings, stops, and order execution with real examples like Apple and Tesla.

Explore how short selling works with a live real-time demo using Tesla shares, including margin and cash accounts, and the associated risks and price dynamics.

Understand what constitutes a company's outstanding shares, including insiders and public holders, and how IPOs, stock splits, and secondary offerings can change the total.

Explore how market capitalization is calculated by multiplying a company's current share price by its total outstanding shares, with examples from ABC at $50 and Tesla and Microsoft.

Define floating shares as the portion of total outstanding shares available for public trading in the stock market, reduced by insiders and investors, with a 1 million total shares example.

Select stocks by aligning with your investment goal, perform fundamental analysis of finances, management, and growth, assess dividends, competitive position, market share, and diversification across industries to manage risk.

Learn from five years of trading: adopt a long-term compounding mindset, avoid overnight wealth myths, diversify, manage risk, and rely on trusted sources rather than penny stocks or random videos.