How The Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)

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1. tfw you watch a video titled “for dummies” and you still don’t get it

   1. @G0lden Another interesting thing, VW bought an absolute ton of Audi stocks back in 2008(?), and since VW was trying to buy way way more stocks than were actually available to buy, the price of the stock went insanely high since demand was much much much higher than supply. Like 10000% increase in a matter of hours. The intricacies of the stock market are somewhat random and confusing.

   2. @Mr. Lengo So what you’re saying is that if someone or some company owns half or most of the stocks it can become in charge of the company? At this point what’s the difference between CEO, chairman and founder? And which of these is the one with most stocks? Who has higher power? If one of those is the person with most stocks then can a parent company like AT&T be a chairman or a founder of warner media depending one which one of these is the name of the person or company with most stocks? Sorry if I’m taking too much of your time I’m just interested in this stuff.

   3. @G0lden In most companies the CEO is the highest in command and the President is second highest. I think what I said before is incorrect, how if you buy the majority of stocks you would be the CEO. Now, a majority shareholder is still a thing, it’s when someone owns over 50% of the stocks. Owning this much of a company gives you some power over what the company does. So if someone owns 55% of shares in a company they have quite a large amount of voting power for decisions. If a company asked a question “should we build a new factory?” Then the shareholders can vote for that decision, with the higher % of shares owned giving more voting power.
      I’m not sure if someone who owns only 0.0001% of shares could vote at all in a company. There might be some lower limit for the percentage of shares needed to own to be able to vote.

      The decisions the shareholders and majority shareholders end up voting on depends on the company and situation so I can’t say exactly how much power the shareholders have compared to the CEO and President.

      So if a company owns 100% of another company, they have 100% of the voting power.

      Sorry if my previous comment was confusing about how you could become a CEO by buying stocks, as I think that was actually incorrect. CEOs, Presidents, or any position, don’t have any connection to shares.

      Another example is with Engineering. If a company wants to build a new structure (bridge or building or something), the engineers have to keep in contact with the major shareholders and company executives to be able to build exactly what everyone wants.

   4. Oof..

   5. @Archvaldor’s Warcraft Hacks this comment is golden. I’m trying to invest but I feel lost and stupid. These videos use words without explanation

2. economy is weirder than quantum physics

   1. Nah, economy is here to explain how dumb we are really and how perceptions can become real

   2. When the economy gets bigger, you don’t get richer

   3. No not really

   4. yup

3. The feeling when its supposed to be for dummies but you still dont get it

   1. @Katakuri I FUCKING UNDERSTAND NOW!

   2. Lol there are so many bots in these replies

   3. This video can be summed up as “blah blah blah companies sell stock to get money”. Horrible.

   4. I’m getting it

4. For the first time, I feel like I understand what’s going on in a Kurzegesagt video

   But I’d also say
   a) Day trading is difficult, and while some stockholders do feel the need to buy and sell quickly when a stock price rises or falls, the general advice for normals like you and me is to buy… and to hold that share for a longer period of time.
   b) Stocks can also “lose” value per stock if you have a stock split, in which, say, 1 stock is divided into 2. This doesn’t affect current shareholders, as now, instead of having 1 stock worth $10, they now have 2 stocks worth $5 each, which is still equal to $10, but it opens up opportunities to buy and sell.

   1. agreed exept if ur a big trader or something
      u should just chill and wait even if the stocks goes down a bit it always does that and it will go up eventully
      i have wated 4years for a specific stocks in my country
      its price trippled
      u just have to wait

   2. @Random potato I am dumber that everyone I guess like I know nothing about it Seriously

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6. I can’t believe there’s a kurgesagt video on this

   1. There’s a kurzegesagt video on everything

   2. @White wolf but there is a science to that as well, right? Political economy is a part of political science on understanding how it all flows together.

   3. @White wolf But finances can’t be apart of social science? As economics and finances go hand and hand, correct?

   4. @White wolf of course they can what? be counted as the same or go into the same category?

   5. Stock exchange is happy to be so recognized

7. I really love this channel, they make complicated or boring things interesting to learn about

8. wonderful lessons for new trader like myself. Great details and modeling.

   1. @Liam Hewith Most times you don’t just start trading on your own, sorry for your loss I’ll advice you get a professional in this

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   3. I’m interested too but I dont want to experience losses just yet because I’m only a beginner lol. So how do I know a professional

9. I love how this was 7 years ago but feels no worse than the videos today. Amazing longevity

   1. the stock exchange doesn’t just change every couple years. Information from 2000s are still relevant. the only things different are the companies

   2. @Kieffus He meant the feel of the video, not the information in it

10. I’d really love a more in depth version of this

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