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Understanding The Stock Market: For Beginners
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Understanding The Stock Market: For Beginners

The most comprehensive, yet easy to understand course explaining the stock market.
Created byHarvell Floyd Jr
Last updated 11/2014
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand how the stock market works and how to use that information in everyday life.

Course content

4 sections • 36 lectures • 7h 31m total length

  • Introduction9:21

    Explore stock market basics, including equities and bonds, major exchanges, ticker tape, and key indices like Dow Jones and S&P 500, plus practical investing steps.

  • History of the stock market12:05

    Trace the stock market's history from the 12th century to the 1792 establishment of the New York Stock Exchange. See how major crashes and safeguards shape investing over time.

  • Why it is important to know history?1:52
  • Equities5:25

    Understand equities as ownership through common stock in a corporation, featuring limited liability, a board of directors, and the contrast between equity financing and bonds, with dividends and liquidation outcomes.

  • Common Stock8:46

    Owning common stock gives you ownership and upside potential as a company grows, with buying options from brokerages or direct drip programs, including fractional shares and various account types.

  • Preferred Stock10:02

    Discover how various accounts enable stock ownership, learn the priority of preferred stock in dividends and liquidation, and understand transfer agents, stock certificates, and shareholder rights.

  • Classifications of stocks7:26

    Classify stocks into six classes: blue chip, growth, income, defensive, cyclical, and aggressive, and see examples like Pepsi, Coca-Cola, IBM, and Intel illustrate each category.

  • Classifications of stocks cont.10:07

    Explore classifications of stocks: defensive, cyclical, income (blue-chip), and aggressive to understand volatility and market responses, with examples like Commonwealth Edison, Facebook, and AT&T.

Requirements

  • Download course syllabus
  • Internet Connection
  • You can use a laptop, tablet or ipad/iphone

Description

            This course is about the stock market and how to understand what it is, how it began, how it's structured, what the component parts are, how the whole thing works basically, and how it applies to everyday life, people, and making money. The course is developed and taught by a 30-year veteran investment banker, the course teaches the history of the markets, classifications of stocks, how to read the ticker tape, how to buy and sell stocks, and everything in between.  This is the beginner's course, however, very complex concepts are discussed in detail to give students advanced-level knowledge. This is the first course in a series.

        I have taught this course and many others over my 30-year career and I always hear the same things and see the same progress. People become extremely empowered when they gain knowledge about money, finance, and economics. I have literally seen my students go from unemployed to business owners to investors and beyond. I know that by taking this course you will be enriched. 

        The course is structured in four (4) parts. Each part has a set of videos for you to watch and observe. There are few assignments throughout the videos but strictly voluntary however very effective learning tools. The course has over 7 hours of content that will give the average person a wall street education in about 30 days. By watching a video a day, you will gain powerful insight and information that will help you understand how to make money in the stock market. 

Who this course is for:

  • Individuals who have never owned stocks or have limited experience with stocks should take this course.
  • People who want to start building a portfolio but don't know how to get started.
  • Individuals who may already have investments but want to be more in control.

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