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What Is a Stock?
Understand what you actually own when you buy a share of a company.
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Learning Path
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Investing Basics
The core ideas every investor needs before putting money to work.
What Is a Stock?
Understand what you actually own when you buy a share of a company.
Risk vs. Reward
Why bigger potential gains almost always come with bigger potential losses.
Stocks vs. Bonds
The core difference between owning a company and lending it money.
Portfolio Basics
LockedHow to combine investments into a portfolio built for your goals.
What Is Diversification?
Learn why spreading your money across different assets reduces risk without killing returns.
ETFs Explained
How buying a single fund can give you ownership across hundreds of companies at once.
Building Your First Portfolio
A simple framework for turning individual investments into a coherent portfolio.
Understanding Companies
LockedThe numbers and metrics investors use to size up a business.
Market Capitalization
What 'market cap' means and why it's the fastest way to size up a company.
The P/E Ratio
A quick way to tell if a stock looks expensive or cheap relative to its earnings.
Revenue vs. Profit
Why a company can bring in billions and still lose money.
Understanding Markets
LockedHow prices move and what drives the market up and down.
Understanding Volatility
Why prices swing, and how much swing is actually normal.
Bull Markets vs. Bear Markets
The two moods of the market and what they mean for investors.
Investor Psychology
LockedThe mental habits and biases that make investing harder than the math suggests.
What Is FOMO?
How the fear of missing out leads investors to buy at the worst possible time.
Emotional Investing & Loss Aversion
Why losses hurt more than equivalent gains feel good — and how that warps decisions.
Glossary
Key terms explained simply
Stock
A share of ownership in a company. Owning a stock makes you a part-owner of that business.
Share
A single unit of stock. If a company has issued 1,000 shares, each one represents 0.1% ownership.
Diversification
Spreading your money across different investments so one bad performer can't sink your whole portfolio.
Risk Tolerance
How much loss or price swing an investor can handle emotionally and financially before it becomes a problem.
ETF
Exchange-Traded Fund — a basket of many stocks or bonds bundled into one investment that trades like a single stock.
Index Fund
A fund designed to track a market index, like the S&P 500, rather than trying to beat it.
Portfolio
The full collection of investments — stocks, bonds, funds, cash — that a person owns.
Market Capitalization
The total value of a company's outstanding shares, calculated as share price multiplied by number of shares.
P/E Ratio
Price-to-Earnings ratio — a stock's price divided by its earnings per share, used to gauge if a stock looks expensive or cheap.
Earnings Per Share
A company's profit divided by its number of outstanding shares.
Revenue
The total money a company brings in from sales, before any costs are subtracted.
Profit
What's left of revenue after subtracting all expenses. Also called net income.
Volatility
How much and how quickly a price moves up or down over time. Higher volatility means bigger, faster price swings.
Bull Market
A sustained period of rising prices and investor optimism.
Bear Market
A sustained period of falling prices, typically a drop of 20% or more from recent highs.
FOMO
Fear Of Missing Out — the anxious urge to buy an investment just because its price is rising fast, often leading to poor timing.
Loss Aversion
The psychological tendency to feel the pain of a loss more strongly than the pleasure of an equivalent gain.
Dividend
A portion of a company's profit paid out directly to shareholders, usually on a regular schedule.
Bond
A loan you make to a company or government in exchange for regular interest payments and the return of your principal.