1. the stock exchange
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2. Agenda Review saving vs. investing Identify types of stocks
Learn to read a stock table & ticker tape
Take the TSE Stock Search
Trick or Treat

3. Saving:
Why we Save?

4. What can you do with your money?
Saving
Money put aside for future use
Easy to open, fixed rate of return, protected
Investing
Money used to earn more money or extra income
Higher rate of return, greater or equal to inflation
Yields not guaranteed, risk

5. Common Saving Plan VS
Compound Saving Plan

6. Only Invest what you can afford to lose!
Investing:
High risk = High Return
Only Invest what you can afford to lose!

7. What are the forms of investment?
Bonds
Lending money
Guaranteed, liquid
Stocks
Invest in stock become part owner or shareholder of that company
Risks & rewards

8. Types of stock Common Stock Preferred Stock Ownership in company
Claim on a portion of profits (dividends)
Higher returns
More risk
Preferred Stock
Guaranteed fixed dividend forever

9. Types of common stock Blue Chip Growth Penny Stable growth patterns
Dividend payment history
Less risky
Growth
Potential for profitability & rapid growth
Reinvest profits into operations
Higher risk than blue chip
Penny
Sell for less than a $1
Highly speculative, newly formed companies
High risk investments, potential for high return

10. The stock exchange
Places where buyers & sellers meet and decide on a price in order to exchange stocks.

11. What is the ticker tape?
Stock market information scroll (i.e. TV screen)
Example
MSFT
(ticket symbol, shares traded, price traded, change direction, change amount)

12. The TSX Stock Search