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Active-Duty Military Members Learn About the Stock Market

AUGUST 10, 2021 – Most military members shouldn’t even consider serious investing until they build up a savings cushion. If you’ve paid off personal debt and built an adequate emergency fund, you are ready to start saving for retirement and even building passive income from investments.

If you’re thinking building your wealth by buying and selling assets, shares, and securities, then you’re going to need to learn about the financial market first. One of the first, and most important steps you’ll need to take, involves figuring out how the stock market works. This market has evolved quite a lot from the early depictions of wall street and eager financial teams running backwards and forwards between monitors. Rather than referring to a single space, the term actually refers to the full collection of exchanges where people can engage in the buying, selling, and management of publicly held companies.

How Does the Stock Market Work?

The stock market works by essentially organizing the movement of all publicly traded companies. Most of the institutions involved with the market are regulated groups, which follow a specific series of rules to ensure that the trading environment is fair. However, there are some less regulated markets available too, and this is often where you’ll find the cheapest penny stocks. While you can purchase just about anything online in the modern world, there’s a designated environment for every commodity. These markets are platforms where buyers and sellers can meet, interact, and transact. The stock market is a similar designated environment for trading securities in a safe and well-tracked environment.

As a primary market, this landscape allows companies to issue and sell shares to the public through something called initial public offerings. These IPOs allow companies to raise money for development opportunities. At the same time, individual buyers benefit from the ability to purchase shares, and sell them back into the market when the value of the company increases. While the primary market of the stock landscape is all about selling and issuing stocks from the first time when a company goes public, the secondary market is often the one that gains the most attention, as this is where people can buy and sell their assets. Notably, a company can enter the market more than once, using additional listings with extra shares to raise more finance.

Is the Stock Market Always Available?

The stock market is everywhere these days. It brings together hundreds and thousands of people looking to buy and sell shares on a regular basis. While earlier markets used to deal in paper-based environments, the modern-day landscape tends to operate electronically. Typically, the market in the US remains open between 9:30am and 4pm, though there are some early and late trading opportunities available for certain investors and traders, depending on the broker they’re working with.

Despite much of the environment now operating online, there are still stock market holidays where people won’t be able to buy and sell assets. Many experts advise being aware of the holidays each year, so you can avoid making dangerous decisions before the market closes. For instance, the market will often involve holidays like Independence Day, New Year’s Day, and Christmas Day, among others. Keep in mind that bond market and bank holidays can differ to the stock holidays.

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