Stock Exchange & Investment

Course review:

This training is designed for anyone who is interested in the stock exchange and investment. It intends to make people understand the technicalities with simple examples.
This course will explain how the stock exchange works in relation to the London Stock Exchange.
It guides you through the history of LSE and other Stock Exchanges. The participant will get familiar with financial site of LSE, how the share prices are calculated and what derivatives are and how the stock exchange is regulated by the government.

This course does NOT advise you what to invest in!
Exchange Markets

• Types of Exchange Markets and their implementations
• Short history of stock exchange
• Stock Exchange and alternative markets

Stock Exchange Technicalities

Types of financial instruments

• Shares, bonds
• Derivatives

Shares

• How share price is calculated
• Types of shares
• Demand and supply
• Factors which may effect demand and supply
• Market and net value

Source of income from shares

• Dividends
• Profit from sale

Gilts and Bonds

Derivatives

• What are derivatives?
• Risk hedge and speculation
• Futures
• Forward contracts
• Options
• Covered warrants

Indexes

• How a value of indices is calculated
• LSE indices

Stock Exchange and Regulation

• How Stock Exchanges are regulated by government in the UK and the US

London Stock Exchange

• Finding a stockbroker
• Trading over the Internet