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Sunday, 15 February 2009

Stock Market For Beginners

By Anna Kirtsen

We all dream of the day when we can be in our house sitting on a sofa sipping nice tea along with an assortment of cookies and in the meantime you know that every minute there is money rolling into your bank account . Talk of good times and if wishes were horses then everybody would ride them.

Making money via stock market will involve two things and these are either having a comany which is very very profitable and then you as a majority partner enjoy the fruits of labor or you can buy shares at the stock exchange and sell when the share price is high.

No risk and no gain is the mantra. Stock market is not for the faint hearted. You should strive to make good money out of the stock markets by investing in a particular stock. Your shareholding will be less but then you do not worry about the stock holding but about when you will make good money by selling your stake.

Before you take your cheque book out and start looking at companies to buy for $1000 , you should know the stock market basics and then start investing to make more money. It is absolutely very important to understand all the stock market terms and technical lingo which gets thrown around quite a bit to make some serious money in the market.

Let us get the initial understanding of what is a stock? I will take an example of a company called XYZ, newly formed and into the business of selling shirts. This company XYZ will need money to buy machinery, raw material, pay for employees salary etc and the money will come in the form of loans, money from friends and family and also you sell some part of the company to other persons or companies. How do you part with ownership of the company is that you create shares or parts of the company for say $10 each .

Theoretically each share is a fraction of the company that you own. Now if that company is profitable then you each share that you won will have more value. So a share which has $1 value can be sold for $100 if the stock market perceives that the share has that much value.

Assuming you have $1 shares and 51 shares in a company ABC then you can sell those shares at a much better value than $1 value if the stock market thinks that the company is going to make good profits and they eare willing to pay you a higher pricer than the original value.

This is in simple terms what is a stock and what is a stock exchange. - 16931

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