Understanding the Stock Market (HowtheMarketWorks.com)

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Visit our contest at HowTheMarketWorks.com and click on Assignments, Understanding the Stock Market.   Read the articles and watch the related videos in full and answer the questions that may follow each.  The information covers a variety of topics:

1. What is a stock?
2. Why invest in stocks?
3. What is a ticker symbol?
4. Getting (and understanding) stock quotes.
5. What is an ETF?
6. What is a mutual fund?
7. Getting trading ideas.
8. Percentages, Fractions, and Ratios and the Stock Market 
9. Building a diversified portfolio
10. How to use Excel to track your portfolio.
11. Watch Order Types video.

After you read each article and/or watch each video, answer each of the questions in the Pop Quiz below the article.  Be sure to submit the quiz to record your answers/score.  Full credit will be granted to students who get 80% or more on the quiz.  If you score below 80%, please retake the quiz before the deadline in order to receive credit.