A stock represents a share of ownership in a company. When you buy a share of Apple stock, you literally own a tiny piec

The stock market is the engine that connects people who want to invest money with companies that need money to grow. It

When someone says 'the market is up today,' they're almost always talking about one of three indexes: the S&P 500, the N

A price chart is a visual story of what a stock has been doing — where it's been, where it is now, and (if you learn to

An ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) is like a basket of stocks bundled into a single ticker you can buy and sell. Instead of p

A bull market is when stocks are rising and the overall mood is optimistic — think of a bull charging forward with its h

A brokerage account is your gateway to the stock market — it's the account where you buy and sell stocks, ETFs, options,

When you go to buy or sell a stock, you don't just click 'buy' and hope for the best — you choose what type of order to

A dividend is a cash payment that a company sends to its shareholders — it's literally getting paid for owning a stock.

Market capitalization — market cap for short — is the total value of all a company's outstanding shares. The formula is