Frequently Asked Questions

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Trading stocks on Wall Street Survivor is easy. To make a trade, you have to know the ticker symbol of the stock you want to trade and the number of shares you want to buy. If you don't know the ticker symbol, click on the "Quotes/Research" link on the top horizontal navigation bar of the Wall Street Survivor site and then on "Symbol Lookup&rdquo" and enter the company name. The ticker symbol is the company's one- to five-character abbreviation. Click on the ticker symbol of the company in which you're interested and you will view the latest price. You can then decide how many shares you want to buy. For example, if you're interested in a $20 stock and want to invest $10,000, you would have to buy 500 shares.

Once you have the both ticker symbol and number of shares, click on the "Make A Trade" link. On the Stock Order Screen, indicate whether you're buying or selling, input the ticker symbol and number of shares click on the "Preview Trade" button. When the Trade Preview screen appears, you'll be prompted to either "confirm" or "cancel" that trade.

Wall Street Survivor is a fully functional website that contains the information you need to successfully monitor your portfolio. You can click on "My Portfolio&rdquo and view a quick snapshot of your balances. You can then click on any of the figures that make up your balances for further details or on "My Open Positions&rdquo from the secondary, horizontal navigation bar to retrieve each one of your stock's full profit and loss. You can also monitor your account's overall ranking from the main login page.

Prizes will be awarded within 60 days from the end of the trading period. If you're one of our top performers, we will contact you shortly after the end of the trading period . As a result, you have to make sure your Wall Street Survivor profile is both complete and accurate.

A stock or equity is an investment that represents a share of ownership in a corporation. A "equity" holding in a publicly traded corporation entitles you to part of the company's earnings and assets without any liability risk. The two main types of shares are common and preferred stocks. Common stock gives the owner the right to vote at shareholders meetings and receive dividends if any are declared. While preferred shares typicall don't confer voting rights, they have priority over common shares for earnings and assets. This means when a company declares dividends, preferred shareholders are paid before common ones and have a higher claim to assets if the company goes bankrupt and is liquidated.

An investment portfolio is a collection of investment assets, such as stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, derivatives, real estate and commodities. Investment portfolios should be constructed after carefully assessing the investor's goals, objectives and portfolio, such as age, growth and income requirements, risk tolerance and liquidity needs

A market order is an order to buy or sell a specified number of shares (or bonds, etc. ) at the best available price when the order is submitted. All orders that don't bear a specific price are considered market orders.

A limit order is an order in which a specific price is set to buy or sell a security. If the price point is hit and there is sufficient volume at that price point or better, your order will be filled.  

A stop order is an order to buy or sell a stock when the stock price reaches a specified price, which is known as a stop price. When the specified price is reached, the stop order becomes a market order.
(a)  A Sell Stop Order is used by investors and traders long a stock to protect an existing profit or avoid further losses if the stock price drops. A stop order to sell must be placed below the current market price.
(b)  A Buy Stop Order is used by investors and traders short a stock to protect a profit or limit a loss if the stock price increases.
A stop order to buy must be entered at a price above the current market price.
 

An open order, which remains current until it is executed, is an order to buy or sell a security at a specified price. Open orders are usually submitted within a specified time frame (e.g. , 30 days).

A wise investor will always conduct some type of analysis before making an investment. Acting on hot tips or no-brainers or blindly following the crowd rarely pay off. There must be a justifiable reason to buy or sell a stock so prudent investors will conduct a fundamental analysis and/or technical analysis.

A fundamental analysis determines a stock's value through the analysis of the quality of management, financial data, the industry in which the company operates, their competition and other factors that are 'fundamental' to the company's operations. Such an analysis excludes the equity market's overall condition, market psychology and behavioral variables or the market's technical analysis

There are many approaches to a fundamental analysis. Some investors take a "value" approach, which means they focus on analyzing and determining items such as book value, intrinsic value, free cash flow, price/earnings ratio and dividend yield. Other investors are more "growth" oriented, delving instead into issues such as future earnings and revenue growth rates. In addition, differing methodologies and yardsticks are generally used depending on the industry in which the company operates.

A technical analysis is the forecasting of financial investments' future price movements based on an examination of past price movements. The technical analyst ignores factors that are 'fundamental' to both the company's operations or investment vehicle being analyzed. Instead, a technical analysis leverages a wide variety of techniques and charts that show price over time. Some well-known techniques include trendline analysis, support and resistance, chart pattern analysis, moving averages, Dow Theory, Elliott Wave Theory, Fibonacci analysis and Japanese candlestick charting.

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