A stock is a security that represents the ownership of a fraction of a corporation.
When you invest in stocks, it means that you’ll own stocks, then you’re entitled to a proportion of the corporation's assets and profits equal to how much stock you own. Units of stock are called "shares."
You can begin with stock trading predominantly on stock exchanges, in spite of the presence of private sales. These stocks will allow you to build your portfolio as an investor.
Wealthface offers the best trading platform to allow you to start buying and selling stocks with only $1, so that you participate in any company’s success when its stock price increases and with dividends.
You can trade like a pro, buying and selling more than 6000 stocks at the lowest costs without hidden fees, once you download the Wealthface stock trading app.
What is a stock market?
Every company needs a marketplace where its shares can be sold. This marketplace is provided by the stock market.
The stock market is where exchanges and regular activities of buying, selling, and issuance of shares of publicly-held companies take place.
Although the stock market is primarily known for trading stocks and equities, there are other financial securities that are traded in the stock markets, like exchange traded funds (ETF), corporate bonds and derivatives based on stocks, commodities, currencies, and bonds.
Stock markets provide a secure and regulated environment where market participants can transact in shares and other eligible financial instruments with confidence with zero to low-operational risk.
What are stock exchanges?
A stock exchange acts like a link between stock buyers and stock sellers without owning shares. Stocks can be traded on several exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or the Nasdaq.
Stock exchanges are a centralized location that brings corporations and governments so that investors can buy and sell equities.
What is a stock market crash?
Black days are those when the stock market crash occurs in the world of finance and investments.
A stock market crash is accompanied by rapid and often unanticipated drop in stock prices causing huge losses of money.
Stock market crashes can be a result of major catastrophic events, economic crisis, or economic depression. The most famous market crash was that of Wall Street in 1929, which was called the Great Depression because it affected global finance and trade.
We can also recall the market crash in 2008, or what was called the Great Recession, when the world banks crashed causing a global economic catastrophe.
We in Wealthface are beyond these crashes. We take pride in our autopilot solutions. Our algorithm, based on the Nobel Prize-winning formula by Harry Markowitz, has been back-tested for over 10 years and proven viable even during the last financial crisis of 2008.
