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Stock Market Fundamentals

Understand what stocks are, how markets work, and the basic mechanics of buying and selling shares.

Lessons in this course

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  1. 01What Is a Stock?
  2. 02How Stock Exchanges Work
  3. 03Sectors: How the Stock Market Is Organized
  4. 04Market Cap: Small, Mid, and Large
  5. 05Dilution: When Your Slice of the Company Shrinks
  6. 06What Moves Stock Prices?
  7. 07Dividends: Getting Paid to Own Stocks
  8. 08Bulls, Bears, and Market Cycles
  9. 09Reading a Stock Chart
  10. 10Order Books and Price-Time Priority
  11. 11Market, Limit, and Stop Orders -- and Slippage
  12. 12Short Selling, Locate, and Failure to Deliver
  13. 13Corporate Actions: Splits, Spin-Offs, DRIPs, and Dividends
  14. 14IPO Mechanics and Lockup Expiration
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