Stock Market Game Vocabulary 2

Which of the following is the best definition of PROFIT?

• The total amount of income a business makes from selling products or services
• The amount of money a business has left over after paying for their costs.
• The total amount of money a business spends.

Which of the following is the best definition of COSTS?

• The total amount of income a business makes from selling products or services
• The amount of money a business has left over after paying for materials.
• The total amount of money a business spends.

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Which of the following is the equation for figuring out PROFIT?

• Profit = Revenue - Cost
• Profit = Cost - Revenue
• Revenue = Profit - Cost
• Costs = Profit - Revenue

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.4

Which of the following is the best definition of REVENUE?

• The total amount of income a business makes from selling products or services
• The amount of money a business has LEFT over after paying for their costs.
• The total amount of money a business spends.
• The amount of money a business loses every month.

Only rich people invest in the stock market.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Buying stocks is a sure way to make money.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is a dividend?

• Typically paid out each quarter, dividends are basically your share of the company’s profits
• A grandchild.
• A symbol that looks like a dot on either side of a dash.
• Something you use to hold books up on a shelf.

What is a bear market?

• An illegal market place where bears are bought and sold. 
• A market where you can buy food if and only if you are a bear.
• A market that is referred to as a "bear" when it gets cranky, hangry and tired.
• The market is referred to as a ‘bear’ when it’s not performing well. Technically, a bear market exists when the stock market drops at least 20% from its most recent high.

What is a Bull Market?

• This is when the stock market is performing extremely well. You may be referred to as a ‘bull’ if you are openly optimistic about the market’s continuing growth potential.
• Not a real market, i.e. it's "bull"
• When you take a huge risk in the stock market. This term derives from the American Idiom, "grab the bull by it's horns"
• When the arrow on the stock market chart sinks, because iot is weighed down, like a heavy animal, or bull.

Preferred Stockholders

• get preference in voting.
• never receive dividends.
• are smarter than other stock owners.
• do not have voting rights.