Stock Market Introduction Course
What you'll learn
- Stock Investing and Financial Markets
Requirements
- No prerequisites needed/ Beginner Friendly
Description
In this course you will learn about the fundamentals of the stock market, and gain a solid understanding of how the stock market works. To begin with, we first discuss and teach you some of the basics, such as teaching you what a stock is and teaching you what a stock exchange is. Then we teach you more about what type of stock you may want to buy, and how you can classify different stocks. You then will learn how to analyze a financial statement, which is incredibly important in today's world. We then teach you more about fundamental and technical analysis, two different investing strategies and let you decide whichever one may work for you. To end off the course, we then teach you two investing styles that legendary investors have used and seen success in. We hope you enjoy the course and gain a solid beginning in your investing journey.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners who are Interested in Learning More About The Stock Market
Instructors
My name is Vayun Shyam, an entrepreneur with fascination for various markets around the world and their influence on culture. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the world’s hub of technological development, I have grown a deep passion for building applications and ML/AI models around customer feedback and product reviews. I have been working with object-oriented languages for past 3+ years, including Java, Python, C++, Ruby, and more. I am a current member of DECA, and I have experience competing and placing in the marketing and entrepreneurship clusters. Moreover, I was fortunate to gain some real-life business experience through designing and publishing my own apps and pursuing nonprofit endeavors.
My name is Aditya Prasad Biswal. At the time of publication, I am a high school senior from BASIS Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. Ever since a young age, I’ve been fascinated by technology and my culture - I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the world’s hub of technological development, instilling a deep academic passion for computer science and AI, specifically computational linguistics and computational finance. I am a current member of DECA, and I hope that my courses and content will help spread knowledge.
Hello everyone! My name is Etienne Rousseau and I am a stock market specialist. I am a student that takes part in DECA at American High School. I have gained some real world experience in the stock market, as I have tried some different investing strategies that range from day trading to value investing. I learned the hard way that trading stocks is not as easy as it seems, and can take years to learn. However, through all my successes and failures I have gained some valuable knowledge along the way, and am now ready to share this knowledge with you in the course I have created. I hope this course gives you a good introduction in the stock market, and help you begin investing.
Hello. My name is Rohan Karra and I am a current DECA member at American High School. I have competed and placed in DECA events from multiple clusters at multiple levels. I have also had real-world experience with business myself from dropshipping to investing. These experiences have helped my write this amazing course, and we hope that The Storyboard Initiative can prepare you for DECA and as well, give you a thorough introduction to business as a whole.