How the Stock Market Works - The Great Courses
You can learn about the stock market in many ways. But most people cannot affd to learn the wrong way-by making expensive mistakes.
The stock market is a way f anyone to own the valuable assets of a company and, as investments, stocks histically have offered a good chance f long-term gains. If you own a well-diversified ptfolio of individual stocks stock funds, your wealth tends to grow when the economy grows. But too many invests succumb to the high-risk pursuit of beating the market by trying to pick winners, predict price trends, otherwise find opptunities that other invests have missed.
The stock market is a way f anyone to own the valuable assets of a company and, as investments, stocks histically have offered a good chance f long-term gains. If you own a well-diversified ptfolio of individual stocks stock funds, your wealth tends to grow when the economy grows. But too many invests succumb to the high-risk pursuit of beating the market by trying to pick winners, predict price trends, otherwise find opptunities that other invests have missed.
Today, millions of people in all walks of life are invested in the stock market through brokerage accounts and retirement plans such as IRAs and 401(k)s. What to buy and when to sell stocks are up to each invest, who often feels besieged by conflicting advice. The wisest approach is to understand exactly what the stock market is and how it wks, appreciating such basic facts as these:
* Facts of success: Many people focus on increasing their rate of return on stocks, which is
hard to do without taking substantial risks. It's much safer to focus on two other facts
that affect how much money you earn.
* No free lunch: You can't make much money in the stock market if you miss the handful of
best trading days of each year, which are unpredictable. But if you stay invested so that you
enjoy the good days, you'll experience some hrible days too-because there's no free
lunch.
* Above all, diversify: Diversification is the closest thing to a free lunch in investing. Just
holding three different stocks instead of one decreases ptfolio variation by about 40% on
average. That's a significant reduction in risk that doesn't cost anything in terms of
expected returns.
F anyone who owns stocks is thinking of entering the market, How the Stock Market Wks provides indispensable advice from Dr. Ramon P. DeGennaro, an award-winning profess in banking and finance at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A congenial and straight-talking expert, Profess DeGennaro leads you through 18 detailed lectures that explain the stock market from the inside, introducing you to the facts that make company stocks rise and fall and the infmation you need to grasp the market's role in the wld economy, evaluate the relative soundness of stocks, and understand the stock investment options available to you.
Even if you have owned stocks f years, you'll find How the Stock Market Wks to be a helpful focus on the fundamentals of investing in stocks. And if you entrust the management of your assets to a financial advis, this course will give you the insights you need to converse knowledgeably with him her and be an infmed participant in your own financial well-being.
18 Lectures:
1 Is Investing in Your Blood?
2 Understanding Fundamental Securities
3 What Is the Stock Market?
4 Histical Returns and Volatility
5 Risk, Expected Return, and Diversification
6 What Determines How Much You'll Make
7 The Efficient Market Hypothesis
8 Choosing a Brokerage Firm
9 Trading and Investing Basics
10 Trading Strategies and Common Mistakes
11 The Language of Financial Repting
12 Cpate Analysis and Valuation
13 Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies
14 Minimizing Transaction Costs and Taxes
15 Tax Shelters-Roths, IRAs, and 401(k) Plans
16 Making Sense of IPOs
17 The Stock Market and the Macro Economy
18 Investing with Confidence
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