Table of Contents

  1. Welcome 

  2. GoVenture Stock Market

    1. What is the GoVenture Stock Market Simulation
    2. How GoVenture Stock Market Differs from Other Stock Simulations
    3. What You Need to Play GoVenture Stock Market
    4. More Information 

  3. Purpose of Stock Markets

    1. Stock Markets
    2. Who Invests in Stock
    3. Liquidity

  4. Why Companies Sell Stock

    1. Raising Money
    2. Debt Financing vs Equity Financing

  5. Why People Buy Stock

    1. Financial Gain
      1. Income Generation — Dividends
      2. Growth — Capital Gains
    2. Personal and Emotional Reasons
    3. Risk and Return 

  6. Stock — Types and Issues

    1. Not All Companies Sell Stock
    2. Types of Corporations
      1. Non-Profit and Not-for-Profit Corporations
      2. Private Corporations
      3. Public Corporations
    3. Stock (Shares)
      1. Authorized vs Issued Shares
      2. Share Certificates
      3. Number of Shares per Company
      4. Classes of Stock
    4. Stock Options and Warrants
      1. Stock Options
      2. Warrants
      3. Futures
    5. Stock Portfolio
    6. Company Value
    7. Changes to the Value of Your Stock
      1. Market Price and Demand
      2. Dilution
      3. Stock Split and Reverse Split

  7. How Stock Markets Work

    1. Listed and Over-the-Counter Markets
      1. Listed Exchange
      2. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Market
    2. Trades: Bid, Ask, Spread, Market, and Volume
    3. Stock Prices
    4. Stock Performance
    5. Stock Ticker
    6. How Corporations Become Traded on a Stock Market
      1. Initial Public Offering (IPO)
      2. Reverse Take-Over (RTO)
      3. Shell 

  8. Buying and Selling in the Stock Market

    1. Stockbrokers and Brokerage Houses
    2. Buy and Sell Orders
      1. Market Order
      2. Limit Order
      3. Stop Order
      4. Day Order
      5. Fill-or-Kill Order
      6. All-or-None Order
      7. After-Hours Trading
    3. Being Long or Short in a Stock
    4. The Dollars and Cents of Buying and Selling Stock
      1. Opening a Trading Account
      2. Cash and Margin Accounts
      3. Brokerage Fees

  9. Reporting, Regulations, and Research

    1. Stock Market Index
    2. Government and Securities Regulations
    3. Insider Trading
    4. Stock Research

  10. Next Steps

  11. Glossary