π Market jargon buster: 10 common (and confusing) investing terms
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Kate Campbell, welcome to this very special Shares Month episode where we're going to bust some jargon.
Yes, episode two of Shares Month.
Yes, it is indeed. This is a good episode for anyone who is new to the stock market, anyone who is new to ETF investing, basically any type of investing. We are surprised it's taken us more than three years to do this episode.
Yeah, we have not busted much jargon in the past unless it was within an episode, but there's a lot of terms that we just use every day. You'll hear investors on the podcast use all the time that actually sometimes there's a little bit to know behind the surface. So in this episode, we're going to break it down, make it as simple to understand as possible, because some of this can get a little bit confusing. This was actually a great idea suggested by our friends at EquityMates, who we did the Get Started Investing course with. They are all about breaking down the jargon, so they've done some great episodes called Pardon the Jargon. We've actually got a lesson on these common confusing terms and what they mean in the Get Started Investing course, which is free on Rask Education.
There's a link in the show notes. In this episode, we're going to break down 10 different terms that can be a little bit confusing when it comes to investing.
Yeah, cool. So we're going to talk about things like blue chips, bullish and bearish, what that means, difference between ETFs and shares. Just to reiterate that you can enroll in the Get Started Investing course on risk education. It is completely free. Thanks to our friends at Equity Mates. Kate, let's start with the first one. Shares slash stocks slash equities. Are they all the same thing?
Yes, all the same thing. People use different words. More commonly, you'll hear the word shares used in Australia when we're talking about things listed on the ASX. But when it comes to the US, you're going to hear stocks a lot more. So if you're looking at YouTube or different news articles, if you see stocks are crashing, it's probably a US article. But if it's shares, it's probably Australian article.
Yep. So you can use them interchangeably. Shares are just like a slice of a pizza. Shares, you get a share of something. Stocks are the same thing. Equities is what professional investors tend to refer to them as. So if they say that we're an equity investor, it typically means that they're investing in shares. The reason they do that sounds more fancy, but it also represents equity, just like equity in a home. If you have a mortgage, that's obviously debt. And then whatever's left over in your house value or your home value, that's equity.
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