Everyone’s dream is to have a life full of riches and what better way to have those riches by using the stock market. Stock market can get you rich faster than anything else.

You can amke money in stock market eitherby buying a stake in a good company and then trying to make that company profitable and then sell that at a later stage or you can buy stock of that company and sell that at a later stage ata good profit.

No risk and no gain is the mantra. Stock market is not for the faint hearted. You should strive to make good money out of the stock markets by investing in a particular stock. Your shareholding will be less but then you do not worry about the stock holding but about when you will make good money by selling your stake.

Before you take your cheque book out and start looking at companies to buy for $1000 , you should know the stock market basics and then start investing to make more money. It is absolutely very important to understand all the stock market terms and technical lingo which gets thrown around quite a bit to make some serious money in the market.

The understanding of the stock market is very simple. It is like that if you have ABC company and you want to raise money you simpley part with some fraction of the company. To part with some fraction you create something called shares for each company and those shares will represent each fraction and then you sell those shares at price.

Let us say you create 100 shares of the company , that means the total share capital of the company is $1000. Now ideally to maintain a majority shareholding XYZ company can sell 49 shares and still be a mahority shareholder.

Now let us assume that you are the person who bought 49 shares of the company XYZ at a price of say $10 only, the company is making decent amount of profits, then you would like to sell those 49 shares to someone who is willing to pay more than $10 to you. The place where you could Ideally go to buy or sell something is a market and that is what a stock exchange is all about, a place to market your shares or let us say either buy or sell the shares of the company XYZ.

This is in simple terms what is a stock and what is a stock exchange.