Basics of Technical Analysis - Picking stocks in the market Part 1
Agenda 11-17 1. Warm-Up 2. Discuss Safer Investments and Measures of Stock Performance 3. Read...
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Agenda 11-17
1. Warm-Up 2. Discuss Safer Investments and Measures of
Stock Performance 3. Read Article “Picking Stocks” and answer
discussion questions and hypothetical examples in notebook
Objective: Students will discuss investments strategies and evaluate considerations when buying stock.
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Warm-Up
1. In your life experience do you agree with the investment rule of “high risk high reward, low risk low reward”? Why or why not?
2. In your mind are stocks a safe investment? Why or why not?
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Safer Investments &
Measures of Stock
Performance
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Corporate Bonds vs. Municipal/Government Bonds
Par values of $10000 for corporate common, $1000 for munis
Corp bonds interest is taxable, munis is not taxed, Gov’t interest paid of at end of term
Munis safer b/c gov’t do not go out of business
Higher risk reward with Corp junk bonds
Gov’t bonds purchased at discount from redemption amount, long term investment
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Treasury Notes, Bonds and Bills
Fed Gov’t issues notes/bonds when borrowing for over a year
Gov’t makes periodic interest payments
Regarded as safest of all financial investments
T-bills have 13, 26 or 52 week maturity
Do not pay interest, sold on discount basis (ex $10,000 T-Bill might sell for $9300)
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Measures of Stock Performance
DJIA- How 30 large publicly owned companies have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market
Companies can be added or deleted (Apple newest 3-18-2015) S&P 500- based on the market capitalizations of 500 large
companies stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ Bull is a strong upward moving market, bear is a weak
downward moving market Both refer to markets over several months or years, not days
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Options Market Call options give buyer option to back out of stock purchase for
future if price goes down Put option gives seller right to back out of a sale in future if
price goes up on a stock Most people buy and sell in spot market in which transactions
occur immediately