introduction to stocks basics of investing i spring 2008 economics 98 / 198 decal` jml/decal
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Introduction to StocksBasics of Investing I
Spring 2008Economics 98 / 198 DeCal
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www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jml/decal
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Schedule Today Administrative Issues Lecture content: Basics of Investing
– What is a stock?– How are they traded?– What are brokerages?– Different types of orders– What is the market?– Terminology
Learning how to use the simulation; IBD
Current Events Assignments / Readings
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Administrative Issues
Attendance & Sign-In
Name Tags
Enrollment
Emails
Webpage
Syllabus Review
News Presentation Sign Ups
Investor’s Business Daily Access
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Lecture Content
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What is a stock?
Common stock
Gives you a “share” of ownership of a publicly traded company
Stock ownership
– Voting rights
– Claim to assets (behind debt holders) and earnings
– Potentially entitled to dividends
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What is a stock? Ticker symbols
– Set of letters that represent a security traded on an exchange
– Ex. MSFT, GS, AAPL, MA, BUD, LUV Stock quotes
– List of prices for a stock at a particular point during the trading day
Stock tickers– What do those green and red numbers
mean?
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Basic Stock Quote
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More Stock Quotes
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Different Types of Stock Preferred Stock
– No voting rights to company issues– Issued fixed dividends forever – main form of return
Common Stock– Majority of stock we see and hear about in the news– Ownership of the company– Entitled to portion of the earnings– Earn returns mainly through capital gains
What are capital gains?– Increase in asset value relative to the purchases
price– Not realized until asset is actually sold– Example.
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Stocks vs. Bonds
Stocks are equity– Generally considered riskier– Quite possible to lose a significant
portion, if not all, of your money– Potential for high returns
Bonds are debt– Lower and usually fixed return– Higher claim than stockholders
What does this mean?
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Dividend Debate
Distribution of a portion of a company's earnings to its shareholders (usually cash)
Bad or Good?– Why?
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What Can Cause Stock Prices to Change?
EASY! Supply and Demand!But…what affects supply / demand of a
stock?
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What Can Cause Stock Prices to Change?
Earnings & growth expectations
Positive / negative news
Economy sentiment
Investor sentiments & attitudes
Irrational exuberance / behavior
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Two Markets Primary Market – market in which
investors have first opportunity to buy newly issued shares– Initial Public Offering (IPO)
First time that company offers its shares to public markets (securities bought directly from company)
Where private companies become public
Secondary Market – investors trade already-issued shares of companies with each other– Ie. The stock market– Trading of a company’s stock DOES NOT
DIRECTLY involve the company financially
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How Stocks Are Traded
Major exchanges – Lists stocks (and other securities),
sets policies for how stocks are traded
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) American Stock Exchange (AMEX) National Association of Securities
Dealers Automated Quotation
Only “publicly traded companies” are listed
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Market Indices (Index) Definition
– Aggregate value of combining several stocks together and intended to represent entire or portion of the stock market
S&P 500– 500 stocks chosen by Standard &
Poor to represent US stock market NASDAQ Composite Dow Jones Industrial
Average– 30 most significant stocks traded
S&P 600 Small-Cap Russell 3000
– 3000 of the largest stocks in the US
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Stocks Markets & Animals
Bull Market– When everything in the market is going
great and stocks are generally heading upwards
Bear Market– When everything is NOT GOOD and stocks
are generally headed
NOTE: Nothing lasts forever! Good times and bad times will end at some point
Other animal terms: pigs, chickenshttp://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/stocks7.asp
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Brokerages Need a medium to
trade through – this is where brokerages come in
Cash vs. margin account
Criteria– Full service vs. discount– Fees (commission)– Services / tools– Minimum balance
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Opening an Account Not a hard process- most of it just some
paperwork and mail– Sign-up online and download forms– Mail checks, forms, and copy of ID– Accounts created within a couple of days
Cash accounts usually never turned down– Margin accounts difficult if you have pretty
bad credit history
What you will need: a computer, starting capital, and investing know-how
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Brokerages Some links for brokerage comparisons
– Find something that works for what YOU need
– No one broker that is best for all investors
http://www.investingonline.org/gso/broker_ratings.html
http://www.consumersearch.com/www/internet/online-brokers/
http://www.stockbrokerguide.com/
http://online-stock-trading-review.toptenreviews.com/
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Different types of Orders Market Order
Limit Order
Order executes to buy / sell at specified price of better (lower). Limit orders usually cost more, but useful for getting specified price
Stop Order
Order executes when the price surpasses a particular point, which helps buy or sell at a particular price. Limiting loss or locking profits
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Different Types of Orders Stop Limit Order
Executed at a specified price (or better) after a given stop price has been reached. Order becomes then a limit order to buy (or sell) at the limit price or better
Precision purposes
Good Until Cancelled (GTC)
Good Until End of Day
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Things to Internalize Learn the basics!
– Need to know what basic terms mean– Articles should help you
Advantages of starting young
Useful resources for stock tutorials– www.investorwords.com– http://www.investopedia.com/
university/– www.fool.com
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Current Events
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Investopedia Simulation
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Homework / Reading
Set up simulation account & start trading
Online articles (Course website)– “The Five Biggest Stock Market
Myths”– “Getting Started”