Jaspreet Singh

And what causes the price of a stock to go up and down is not how much money the company is making.

It's supply and demand.

And what I mean by that is the price of any asset, real estate, stocks, crypto, it ultimately depends on how many buyers and sellers there are of that asset.

So if more people want to buy the McDonald's stock than there are sellers of the McDonald's stock, that stock price will go up.

If people are selling the stock more than there are buyers, the price of that stock goes down, which then goes to the next question.

What causes it to go up or down?

Why do people buy versus why do people sell?

And there are a whole list of reasons, but you can look at the obvious.

If McDonald's starts to produce bad hamburgers, the owners might say, I don't know about this.

Well, maybe not the hamburgers because McDonald's is actually in the real estate business.

But if McDonald's starts to have some problems, the owners might say, maybe I should sell.

If McDonald's starts to have smaller profits, now the investors might get concerned.

If they start to have bigger profits than expected, more people might want to buy, which could push the stock price up.

So you have to understand the psychology of the buyers and sellers.

Because there's two parts to successful investing.

One is the financial side, but it's also the emotional side.

And in today's market, our markets are more emotional than ever before.

Business Insider actually did a study on this recently where they, I mean, it's not really that hard to find, but they said that our stock market is more volatile than previous decades.

Which for the average person is not good because they say, oh my God, I'm scared the markets are going to go down, I'm going to lose money.

But for the financially savvy, that creates more opportunity than ever.