Investing in Stocks and Bonds

Hours: 24 / Access Length: 180 Days / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $139.95

Course Overview:

This course will provide the beginning investor with the skills and knowledge necessary to begin investing in stocks and bonds.  As a new investor, it is important to understand how the stock market works, types of investments and where and how to begin.  The strategy and approach you employ, after market research and due diligence covered in-depth throughout this course, will help you successfully and easily make your first trade.  This comprehensive course will use learning activities, practice exams, and assignments to help students learn the foundational components to becoming a successful investor.

Students will:

• Describe the history of the stock market
• Define and describe stock and bond investments 
• Recall how the stock market works
• Define the major types of stock and bond exchanges
• Explain the types of products bought and sold on the market
• Define the best approach to entering the stock market
• Identify the easiest investments for beginners
• Recall the types and purposes of investing
• Recall the 10 tips you should always follow
• Describe the 5 things beginners should always avoid

About This Course:

We are committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. This course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments.

When a student learns, they are not alone.   Each student will be supported by our student services department – which ranges from course mentors, registrar, and technical support assistance.   Every month students have a progress report run on them every month by our student services department to ensure they are making satisfactory progress.   If a student falls behind, we reach out to them personally by phone call every month to see if there is anything we can do to continue to assist them with moving forward in their course.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: History of the Stock Market 

This lesson will provide an historic overview of the stock market, beginning way back in the 1300’s with the Venetian lending trade to the current markets.  It is important to fully understand the beginnings of the market, operations drivers and initial needs of lending and trading to be able to understand the current market.

Lesson 2: How the Stock Market Works

This lesson will provide the key fundamentals of the current stock market, how it works, the parts that make it work and how investing actually occurs.  Before you can begin investing, you need a true understanding of the overall process so you don’t make costly first time mistakes.

Lesson 3: Major Stock Exchanges

This lesson will provide an in depth look at each of the four primary markets – NYSE New York Stock Exchange, TSE Tokyo Stock Exchange, LSE London Stock Exchange and Euronext European Stock Exchange - as well as a few other popular and major exchanges.

Lesson 4: Types of Products Bought and Sold on the Market

This lesson will provide a comprehensive overview of the four popular items on the current stock market; these are items that you can buy and sell including: bonds, stocks, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds.

Lesson 5: Where and How to Begin Investing

This lesson will provide the basics on the easiest way to enter the stock market and set up your brokerage account.  By setting up your account with a top broker firm, you can effortlessly enter and exit a trade with relative ease.

Lesson 6: Easiest Investments for Beginners

This lesson will introduce you to the easiest type of investment for the beginning investor – buy-ins.  Along with the recommended buy-in investment type review, the fundamental and technical analysis will be covered to help you determine the correct strategy to utilize when entering the market for the first time. 

Lesson 7: Types and Purposes of Investing

This lesson will provide you with the major types and purposes of investing.  Since investing is all about making money, the types of your initial investments will be very important in determining your growth and investment longevity.

Lesson 8: 10 Tips You Should Follow

This lesson will review the ultimate top 10 list you should follow as a new investor.  The risk is very high for new investors due to lack of knowledge, lack of due diligence or simply not being diversified.  These top 10 recommendations should help prepare you for a successful first trade in the market.

Lesson 9: 5 Things to Avoid

This lesson covers the key 5 stock tips every new investor should avoid.  It is easy to jump in head first into this new and exciting world of investing, but by following these top 5 recommendations you can easily avoid the common first time pitfalls.

Lesson 10:  Common Beginner FAQ’s

This lesson provides an overview of the beginning investor’s common, frequently asked questions such as “How much money do I need to start investing?” to “Should I hire a financial advisor?”  These ultimate FAQ’s can help provide the last pieces of the puzzle to help you successfully enter the stock market as an active trader.

All necessary course materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.