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1. What did you learn about the topic that most surprised you?

I learned that the stock market isn't just a tool used to monitor the prices of traded goods. It can drastically alter our daily lives if it ever was the crash again.

2. Provide a real-life example of how this topic is relevant or interesting for you.

By researching this topic I learned how I can too get involved in the stock market and use outlets such as 212 Trading to purchase and monitor my own investments.

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Technically, the stock market doesn't actually have a "where", it can be monitored from anywhere. This picture is of the New York Stock Exchange in of course, New York. It is a building with many floors all displaying the prices of stocks worldwide. From here the workers monitor the prices and buy and sell stocks for their clients.

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We've looked how to monitor your stocks, but what do we do if another market crash happened? The best thing to do is take precautions before hand to cushion the blow of the crash when it does happen. Tips such as not investing everything in one stock exchange and buying early help.

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Well, I was early, but I'll bet I wasn't wrong.

When I started buying global stocks last week I wasn't trying to be clever, call the bottom of the market, or "catch a falling knife."

(And, given yesterday's tumble, it's a lucky thing too.)

And I wasn't rebutting my previous article, in which I had warned that a 12,000 figure on the Dow Jones Industrial Average - or even, remotely,.5,000 - wasn't completely unthinkable.

Instead I was just following three of the simplest, most robust, and most easily accessible investment lessons from financial history.

In a nutshell: Buy early. Buy often. And buy cheap.

Buying early means not sitting on your hands and waiting for the market to bottom out before investing.

No, you won't catch the lows. But you don't have to. (Ben Inker, the top investment strategist at Boston firm GMO, commented to me dryly last year that those who went into the 2007-09 crash sitting entirely in cash were typically still sitting entirely in cash long after it was over)

Over time the trend of global equity returns has been positive - and significantly so.

OK, so I've been cautious on markets - too cautious, really - for some time. And I remain distinctly edgy. A massive bear market remains a possibility.

But I don't know. And no one with an investment time horizon of more than about five years can afford to sit out of stocks completely. There's a serious question of whether they should have less than 60% of their portfolio in equities.

After all, you can make far more money in the stock market than you can lose, and those who hang on long enough generally do.

Buying often means not going all-in at once but taking it in stages - ideally in equal amounts every month.

Yeah, I know "dollar cost averaging" is the boring mantra repeated by every financial adviser in America.

But there's a good reason for that.

Even those who begin investing in stocks at the absolute worst moments have generally come out all right so long as they averaged their way in.

That was true even in the massive crashes of 2007 to 2009 and 2000 to 2003. It was even true, remarkably, in the infamous Crash of '29.

September 1929 was the absolute worst moment in history to invest in the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average would fall almost 90% over the next three years - and would not get back to its 1929 level for two decades.

But someone who began investing at that moment would have been in profit as early as the start of 1934 - so long as they kept their nerve throughout the crisis, and kept investing monthly.

Someone who began investing at the peak in March 2000 and kept going monthly was back in profit by the fall of 2003. Someone who did the same starting in October 2007, just before things began to fall apart, was back to evens in just two years.

Their losses at the bottom were smaller, their payback times were much earlier, and their profits were much greater, than those who froze up.

The third lesson is to buy cheap.

That means being willing to invest where prices are lowest, and valuations are best - which usually means where markets have fallen furthest and seem the scariest.

Sure, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is about 12% off its peak.

But European "value" stocks, as measured by the MSCI Europe Value index , are already in a full-blown bear market: They're down more than 20% in U.S. dollar terms from the highs seen early last year. (Value stocks are those that are cheapest in relation to their current net assets, profits and earnings. They're typically in boring companies such as utilities or consumer-goods companies. They have, historically, been a better investment than their more expensive, and glamorous, "growth" rivals)

And emerging-market "value" stocks, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Value index, are down a thumping 40% from their 2011 peaks. How low are they going to go?

According to FactSet, stock markets in regions such as Latin America and non-Japan Asia are nearing their lowest levels of the millennium when measured on such valuation metrics as price to sales and price to earnings. Even Europe, while nowhere near as cheap as the fire-sale levels of the 2012 euro crisis, still looks pretty reasonable.

Logically this is where bargain hunters will look first.

Those who prefer an easier and calmer life should at least make sure they are getting exposure to more than just the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index . That means buying international value and emerging markets value funds as well as - if not instead of - the standard U.S. funds.

Buy early. Buy often. And buy cheap.

Or you can always follow your crystal ball instead.
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How to survive a market crash: the lessons from history

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By Well, I was early, but I'll bet I wasn't wrong. When I started buying global stocks last week I wasn't trying to be clever, call the bottom of the market, or "catch a falling knife." (And, given yesterday's tumble, it's a lucky thing too.)

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This is the stock exchange of Royal Bank of Canada. You can see the Five Day Performance chart graphing the price variations of the past week. Other information such as net profit, net income, and price of stock at the end of the day. With this information investors are able to track their investments.

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Detailed price information for Royal Bank of Canada (RY-T) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

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The Snowball Affect of the Stock Market Crash

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The Snowball Affect of the Stock Market Crash

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The stock market crash of 1929 lead to companies not being able to pay their workers, leaving everybody jobless. Many others who invested their entire life into the stock market lost everything they owned. This was the start of the Great Depression, it last 10 years then ended with the start of World War 2. I bring this up to stress the importance of our stock market and why it is seen as such a big deal. It determines every countries economic growth and in turn, their GDP.

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Understanding What a Stock Market Crash is

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Understanding What a Stock Market Crash is

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A crash in price is usually due to inflation of stock price; meaning when the price of a stock is higher than its actual value. This is also called a bubble, and like bubbles do, they at some point pop. The pop is the result of the price of those shares decreasing drastically back to their worth or even far below.

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Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml The United Kingdom recently arrested a man for allegedly causing the stock markets to crash in 2010. We wanted to know, what does it take to crash a stock market? Learn More: 'Flash Crash' Charges Filed http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-man-arrested-on-charges-tied-to-may-2010-flash-crash-1429636758 "A trader who operated out of his West London home was arrested by British authorities Tuesday on U.S.

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Facts on Why the Stock Market Crashed in 1929

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Facts on Why the Stock Market Crashed in 1929

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This brief but informative video stats the facts on why the stock market crashed in the 1920's.

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Causes and Effects

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Understanding the Inconsistency of Stock Prices

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Understanding the Inconsistency of Stock Prices

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This is the MTEX stock from the Nasdaq market, this is an example of the drastic changes that happen to the price of stocks. The graph indicates the prices per share throughout the day and the number of shares. The previous padlet, "What Causes the Stock Market to Fluctuate" talks about the reasons why the graph increases and decreases like this.

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Canada's History with Stock Market Crash

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Canada's History with Stock Market Crash

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The stock market crash of 1929 drastically changed the lives of everyone in North America and lead to the Great Depression. The market doesn't only affect companies and people who buy and sell stocks, it affect everyone. Stock prices determine the price of the food we buy, the price of the materials used in our clothes and everyday items, how much our jewelry is worth, etc. This Article discusses the events that occurred during the stock market crash.

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In late October of 1929, terror seized the stock exchanges of North America. Capitalism's speculative party, with its galloping share prices and its celebrity millionaires, came to an abrupt stop. The Great Crash, it was called, and it was followed by the Great Depression.

It began to take shape on 24 October 1929, Black Thursday. "Stock Speculators Shaken in Wild Day of Panic," shouted the front page of the next day's Toronto . The New York Stock Exchange, the accompanying stories reported, had experienced massive declines in wild trading, with a record 12.8 million shares sold. Thousands of accounts were wiped out before leading bankers and industrialists intervened to halt the slump. The dread extended to the Toronto markets, the Globe declared, and "rocked" share prices there. In Montréal, forced selling ran rampant, and practically every stock finished the day down.

"The biggest crash ever recorded," lamented the famed British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose own investments were entirely gone by the end of the year ( see Keynesian Economics).

Tuesday, 29 October - or Black Tuesday - was worse still. On Wall Street, 16.4 million shares were sold, almost 4 million more than Black Thursday's unprecedented totals. The New York Times industrial average plummeted, eliminating a strong year's gains, and the investment giant Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation was reduced to 58 per cent of its worth the night before.

In Toronto and Montréal, liquidation records were set. Horrified investors clogged the financial districts, while employees in the exchanges and the brokerage houses worked themselves to near-collapse in an attempt to corral the paperwork. The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs reckoned that "never before the 1929 crash had amounts that ran into billions of dollars been lost on the Canadian Stock Exchanges in so brief a period of time." In Montréal, some 500,000 shares were sold (5 times the usual amount); in Toronto, 330,000 were sold (13 times the usual).

"The singular feature of the great crash of 1929 was that the worst continued to worsen," wrote Canadian-born economist John Kenneth Galbraith in his seminal book The Great Crash 1929 (1954). The markets jumped back to life, but briefly. The setbacks returned and they persisted.

From the peak of the bull market in 1929 to mid-1930, the 50 most active Canadian stocks diminished on average to well under half their market value. Shareholders in International Nickel and Imperial Oil lost more than $500 million each, those in Canadian Pacific Railway over $60 million.

Standard Oil of New Jersey's John D. Rockefeller, the Bill Gates of his day, was caught up in the turmoil. On 13 November 1929, yet another disastrous day for the markets, he put his family's money behind a guarantee that his enterprise's shares would not fall below 50. In early 1932, the price was 20.

Historians and economists debate the importance of the Great Crash. Some claim that it brought on the Great Depression that blighted the 1930s across the industrialized world; others scarcely mention it in their narratives of the decade-long economic ordeal, an international phenomenon with many origins and explanations.

The economic downturn seemed moderate enough when Conservative leader R.B. Bennett hit the election trail in 1930. But Bennett was able to use it to good effect to defeat William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals, who'd been in power for nearly a decade and were reluctant to acknowledge the crisis brewing in Canada.

Six months after the election, Prime Minister Bennett realized that the country was in a severe economic depression. The low point came in 1933, when national output and exports - crucial then as now to the Canadian economy ( see Economic Indicators) - were down a third from late 1920s levels. Farms of the West were in crisis ( see Drought). Nearly a third of the workforce was unemployed.

The rich and well-stuffed Bennett was the butt of cruel jokes and the symbol of everything Canadians loathed. Though he tried to turn the tide, establishing the Bank of Canada and presenting his New Deal for social service reform in 1935, it was too little too late. In the next election, Canadians ousted Bennett.

The economy struggled back, yet very slowly, and a late 1930s recession interrupted the upward trend ( see Business Cycles). In 1939, there were still hundreds of thousands of Canadians on what passed for financial relief, with monthly rates for a family of five varying from $60 in Calgary to $19 in Halifax. This was before the rise of the welfare state in the ensuing decades.

Year upon year of economic woe set peoples against one another in a global depression that left few markets unscathed. In response, governments heaped on the tariffs, wanting to protect themselves and punish others ( see Protectionism). Democracies turned in on themselves, selfish and frightened. Capitalism had apparently failed, and its opponents were in fashion. Territory-hungry dictatorships flourished ( see Fascism). In this respect, the Second World War was a child of the Great Depression. Then, in a twist of fate, the economic prosperity of war ended Canada's Depression.

( See also Economic History.)

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What Causes the Stock Market to Fluctuate?

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What Causes the Stock Market to Fluctuate?

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In this article the reasons why the prices of stocks rise and fall are discussed. It talks about the affect of supply and demand has on stocks, and its unpredictability. This article is helpful because offers examples so the concept can be easily understood.

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In this section, we discuss the practical matter of going about buying and selling shares of stock. Individuals typically buy and sell shares by using a licensed brokerage firm or broker who makes the actual trade. Historically, stockbrokers were hired only by wealthy individuals and families, but today a wide range of stock brokerages exist for all price ranges. So-called "full-service" brokers offer a suite of research, opinion, and expert advice and can offer a personal relationship between the broker and the client. For more budget conscious clients, discount brokerages exist that offer a much more bare-bones service offering, in some cases simply executing purchases and sales. Over the past two decades, electronic trading has grown significantly, with many online brokerages offering both research and opinion as well as trades at low prices, some asking as little as $5 or less per trade in commission. (See also: How To Choose Your First Stock Broker.)

Regardless of the type of brokerage used, the mechanics of buying or selling shares is fairly uniform. First, a stock quote is obtained. In the early days of stock exchanges, price information was transmitted via tickertape​ - a long ribbon of paper that printed basic data via telegraph wire. That is why today we still refer to stock quotes as the ticker.

A stock quote carries a lot of information including the current bid and offer (sometimes called the ask) prices as well as the last price that traded. The bid is the highest price that somebody in the market is willing to pay at a given time, while the offer is the lowest price that somebody is willing to sell. If you are interested in buying shares, you will make a bid, and if you want to sell an offer. When the price of a bid and offer coincide, a trade is effected.

In addition to this price information, data on trading volume (number of shares traded) is often included. Stock quotes obtained online are often real-time quotes that confer second-by-second details, and online quotes also often include charts and interactive tools. Stocks are quoted by their ticker symbol, represented by between one and four capital letters, which are often loosely representative of the company name. For example the ticker symbol for Microsoft Corp. is MSFT​, Caterpillar Inc. is CAT, and Apple Inc. is AAPL ​.

Market Orders and Limit Orders

Next, the type of trade has to be determined. A market order is simply an order that instructs the broker (or online trading platform) to buy or sell shares at the best available price. If you wanted to buy 100 shares of AAPL , and the quote shows: Bid: $139.80 (100), Offer: $140.00 (50), Last: $139.95 (250). This tells us that the last trade was 250 shares at $139.50 and it indicates 50 shares are offered at $140.00. Suppose another 200 are offered at $140.05. Your market order would buy the 50 shares at $140.00 and then purchase 50 more at the next best price at $140.05.

A market order does not guarantee the price you will get, but it does guarantee that you will get the number of shares that you want, in this case 100. When an order is completed, it is said to be filled. A market order is most often used in cases where the buyer or seller is most concerned with filling the size of the order and not concerned with the price. A limit order specifies the price at which you want to trade. For example, you may specify that you want to buy AAPL for $140.00 but no more, in which case you would buy the 50 shares offered at $140.00 and then wait for some other seller to come down to your price. Until that happens, the new quote would be Bid: $140.00 (50), Offer: $140.05 (200), Last: $140.00 (50).

A limit order can also be designated all-or-none (AON), meaning that you won't agree to buy your shares unless you can get all 100 that you want. If the original limit order in this example were AON, you would not buy the 50 that are offered until another 50 came along. Limit orders are used by those who are primarily concerned with the price they want to receive, but they are not guaranteed that the size of their order will be filled. Price versus getting filled on the size of your order are the primary trade-offs between market and limit orders.

Stop Orders

Stop orders are contingent on a certain price level being attained to activate the trade. With a stop order, your trade will be executed only when the security you want to buy or sell reaches a particular price (the stop price). Once the stock has reached this price, a stop order essentially becomes a market order and is filled. For instance, if you own stock ABC, which currently trades at $20, and you place a stop order to sell it at $15, your order will only be filled once stock ABC drops below $15. Also known as a stop-loss order, this allows you to limit your losses.

This type of order can also be used to guarantee profits. For example, assume that you bought stock XYZ at $10 per share and now the stock is trading at $20 per share. Placing a stop order at $15 will guarantee profits of approximately $5 per share, depending on how quickly the market order can be filled. Stop orders are particularly advantageous to investors who are unable to monitor their stocks for a period of time, and brokerages may even set these stop orders for no charge.

One disadvantage of the stop order is that the order is not guaranteed to be filled at the preferred price the investor states. Once the stop order has been triggered, it turns into a market order, which is filled at the best possible price. This price may be lower than the price specified by the stop order. Moreover, investors must be conscientious about where they set a stop order. It may be unfavorable if it is activated by a short-term fluctuation in the stock's price. For example, if stock ABC is relatively volatile and fluctuates by 15% on a weekly basis, a stop-loss set at 10% below the current price may result in the order being triggered at an inopportune or premature time.

Other Kinds of Orders

Orders may also be tagged with instructions regarding how long an order is good for. An immediate-or-cancel (IOC) order is cancelled if the order isn't executed right away. This is typically used in conjunction with a limit order. When an IOC order is combined with an AON order, it is designated fill-or-kill (FOK). A day order is a limit or stop order that is cancelled at the end of the trading day, and will not be active the next morning. A good-til-canceled​ (GTC) order is active until the instruction is given to cancel it, and may remain active for many days at a time or longer.

Margin Trading and Short Selling

In addition to the mechanics described above, many brokerages offer margin trading, allowing their customers to borrow money to buy shares in excess of the amount of cash in their account. Margin also allows for short selling, which is where a market participant borrows shares they do not own in order to sell them with the hope of buying them back in the future at a lower price. A short seller is betting that the price of a stock will go down, rather than up.

In addition to using a brokerage, there are two less common ways to own shares: dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) and direct investment plans (DIPs). DIPs are plans by which individual companies, for a minimal cost, allow shareholders to purchase stock directly from the company. DRIPs are where the dividends paid by shares are automatically used to purchase more of those shares (including fractions of a share).

Stocks Basics: Bulls, Bears & Market Sentiment

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Stocks Basics: What Causes Stock Prices To Change?

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In this section, we discuss the practical matter of going about buying and selling shares of stock. Individuals typically buy and sell shares by using a licensed brokerage firm or broker who makes the actual trade. Historically, stockbrokers were hired only by wealthy individuals and families, but today a wide range of brokerages exist for all price ranges.

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This video gives a brief and easy understanding of what the stock market is. This video is useful because it helps visualize what the stock market is for people who may have trouble understanding. It's a simpler view at what it is and how it works.
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How The Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)

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In this Padlet, a general overview of the stock market collapse will be discussed. You can expect to learn about the past, present, and future of the stock market and how it has affected the worldwide economy.