How does the stock market work, Whats the difference between NasDaq and the other thing?

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Anything about the stock market?

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Answer by ik13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500

Answer by Che
Essentially all the companies listed are publicly traded forms of a joint stock company. Whereby the company is run with the shareholder’s interests in mind. The companies issue shares at a certain price to raise capital and people either buy it and drive up the price or they don’t. There’s different kinds of shares, but they all basically confer partial ownership of the company which is why you can sell your shares to other people in speculative efforts. Anyway, could write 10 pages about it so look on wikipedia for further clarification. I’ll just say there are other regulations like Mutual funds can only own a certain percentage of companies which prevents billion dollar funds from engaging in takeovers.

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Answer by OPM
The Nasdaq, the NYSE and affiliated exchanges and the AMEX and affiliated exchanges are the various US markets for stock.

The exchanges are double auctions. The highest bidding buyer competes other buyers and the lowest bidding seller bids against other sellers. Each trade is the result of an auction process quite similar to the “English” style auction you see at estate sales. There are two broad types of orders that can be placed there. A limit order instructs a floor broker to go to the “specialist,” the auctioneer, to bid to buy or sell a stock for you up to a limited price. A market order tells the broker to stand there and bid on your behalf until you are the high bidder if buying or low bidder if selling, regardless of the price you must pay.

The NASDAQ, or National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system, is not an exchange. It is more like a series of stores that sell stocks. Each dealer holds an inventory of stock and cash. The NASDAQ is the computer system that compares the prices of the stock you are interested in across stores and shows you how much inventory they have available and at what price. Like the exchanges there is a limit order and a market order. Unlike the exchanges, they work differently because there isn’t a direct auction. When you place a limit order you send a request to purchase out on the computer system to the various stock dealers and say you will buy a given amount of stock for a price up to a limit you set, or conversely sell. A market order is an instruction to pay the price the dealer demands for their inventory. It is accepting the sticker price, to use a car equivalent. If the dealer only owns 100 shares and you want 200 shares and place a market order, you will get 100 shares at the stated price and another 100 shares at whatever price the dealer has to pay to convince someone to sell their shares.

Answer by stampy
How does the stock market work (This link will answer half of your question):

Or search around www.themapleinvestor.com

I think you want to know the difference between the Nasdaq – S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average(DJIA).

All three are made up of a basket of stocks. They are called indexes
DJIA has 30 stocks
S&P 500 has 500 stocks
Nasdaq has 3081 stocks

Nasdaq: Known for a vairetly of technology stocks.

DJIA and the S&P 500 are known for representing how well the U.S economy is doing. The stocks inside those two indexes represent the health of the economy.

The difference between the Nasdaq and the other two are the different stocks that are put in them to make up the basket.