What is the Stock Market?
A Stock Market is a place where you can invest in companies and hopefully make a profit by trading shares with other people.

What are Stocks?
A company can choose to offer a percentage of itself to the general public. This means everyone can invest in this company if they want to. When you want to buy a portion of a company you need to buy a share. A share is the name given to that portion of the company. This doesn't mean you own the company, it just means you have invested in it.

Is there a limit to the number of shares that I can buy?
Yes, there is a daily limit to the number of shares that you can buy. You are only permitted to buy or sell up to 1000 shares a day.

How can I find a specific stock?
You can find a specific stock by clicking the Find Stocks link at the top of any of the pages in the Stock Market. On this page you can either type in the company name, or you can click on the link to see a full list of the companies.

What is a Ticker Symbol?
A ticker symbol is a quick way to look up a company. Each company chooses a combination of 2-4 letters that abbreviates their name. This is unique for each company. For example Lupe Consolidated has the ticker symbol LUPE. Powlex Corporation has the ticker symbol POWL.

How do I choose which stock to buy?
This is completely up to you. Buy stocks of products that you believe in, or think are a good business idea. It is usually good practice to also buy stocks that are quite low in price, this way they usually will go up and not down. Alternatively some people prefer to invest in stable stocks that have always been high.

Another way that you may go about choosing a stock is by clicking the Bargains link at the top of the page or by doing research by reading about the stocks on the News/Research page. These two pages can direct you to good stocks.

Why isn't my stock changing?
Stock prices only change when share are bought or sold. If no one is buying or selling the stock you have bought the price is unlikely to change unless there is a market crash.

Is there a way to find out how competitors of my stock are doing?
If you want to learn more about your company and/or its competitors then you will want to click on the Profile link at the top of and of the Stock Market page. In order to look up a company on this page you will need to know it's ticker symbol. This is the 2 to 4 letter symbol that abbreviates the name of your company. Type it in and click the go button and this will take you to a page that will list current competitors to your company, and it will give you a link to find out more about your company.

How do I view my Stocks?
To view your stocks click on the My Portfolio link at the top of any of the Stock Market pages.

How do I buy Stocks?
To buy new stocks click on the Buy link at the top of any of the Stock Market pages.

How do I sell Stocks?
To sell stocks that you own, click on the Sell link at the top of any of the Stock Market pages.

When should I buy my stocks?
It is generally better to buy stocks when their prices are quite low.

When should I sell my Stocks?
It is generally better to sell stocks when their prices are high, or they have increase since you bought them.

What is volume?
This is the number of shares that have been bought and sold in a single day. The higher this number, the more activity that is going on with that stock!

What is Curr?
This is the current price (in NeoPoints) of a particular stock.

What does Open mean?
This is the opening price of a stock - the price that it had at the start of the day.

What does the Qty mean?
This is the number of shares that you have of a particluar stock.

What is a Bull Market?
The bull market is when the market is up.

What is a Bear Market?
A bear market is when the market is down.