Education Articles
More people than ever are taking control of their finances and exploring the world of investing. But, the stock market can be a tricky and daunting thing to navigate if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Thankfully – we’ve got you covered. Our education section provides in-depth guides and articles across a range of topics to help you become a pro in no time.
Financial Glossary
List of Education Articles
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What is Direct Market Access?
Direct market access is the ability to deal directly in the market by placing orders onto the exchange or by dealing directly with a telephone broker.
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What is Forex?
Forex is short for Foreign Currency and Exchange. It refers to currency trading, where traders speculate on potential price changes in currency pairs.
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What is Spread Betting?
Spread betting is a derivative product which is used to speculate on financial markets, including forex, indices, commodities or shares.
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What is Stock Market Inflation?
It’s important to factor inflation into stock market investing. In fact, as you’ll see, failure to take rising prices into account can add serious...
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What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
The SEC is an independent government agency designed to regulate the US capital markets and protect investors.
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What is a FAANG company?
FAANG is an acronym used to describe five prominent and well-performing companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google—now Alphabet.
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What is a Dividend?
Dividends are bonus payments made to loyal shareholders and distributed as cash or shares. Dividends are great for building exponential wealth.
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What is a Bear Market?
A Bear market is when stock prices fall sharply over a long period of time. In this type of market, pessimistic investors sell large numbers of...
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What is a Bull Market?
A Bull market is a sustained period of rising prices, lasting months or years. Although the term is usually used to describe the stock market as a...
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What is Equity Crowdfunding?
Equity crowdfunding is a new and increasingly popular way of investing, harnessing the power of crowds to turn business ideas into a reality.
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What is a SPAC?
SPAC is short for Special Purpose Acquisition Company – though it’s also sometimes known as a ‘blank cheque company’ - but what exactly is it?
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What is an IPO?
Initial Public Offering, or IPO, is a way of taking a private company public. In doing so, that company is then able to list on a stock exchange.
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What is an ETF?
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) can bought and sold (traded) on a stock exchange and contains a selection of different equities (stocks).
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What is an Alternative Investment?
An alternative investment is an investment that falls outside the conventional categories of cash, stocks and bonds.
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What is Starbase $STAR crypto?
Starbase, a relatively unknown Crypto token $STAR soared and crashed this week after Elon Musk tweeted. Illustrating risks in trading altcoin meme...
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What is Hedera Hashgraph? ($HBAR)
Hedera Hashgraph ($HBAR) is a cryptocurrency that has Fortune 500 companies involved and could rival the blockchain tech used by Bitcoin and Ethereum.