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Is the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ the same thing?

enimus: Is the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ the same thing?
I dont understand I know what the S&P is and the NYSE.

Can someone also break down the letters of the N A S D A Q for me. Greatly appreciated.

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Answer by Blissgirl
NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American electronic stock exchange. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), who divested it in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001. It is owned and operated by The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) which was listed on its own stock exchange in 2002. NASDAQ is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. With approximately 3,300 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. The current chief executive is Robert Greifeld
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), based in the United States, is a publishing and financial information firm.

The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. Like The New York Times and the Washington Post, the company is publicly traded but privately controlled. The company is led by the Bancroft family, and is not the subsidiary of a multinational corporation

Answer by Justin N
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

Answer by youngman86
The Dow represents the 30 largest companies bassed on market cap, The NASDAQ is a seperate exchange. I think NASDAQ is National Association of Securities Dealers ? ?

Answer by sunnykinyo
No

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

Answer by ig
NASDAQ is National association of Securities Dealers Auotmated Quotations…
It is of course different from Dow Jones which is determined by NYSE…
S & P is yet another index…

Answer by spanner
No, they are not the same thing.

I hope the following is helpful:

NASDAQ – The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation

Some Basic Vocabulary:

Index – An unmanaged selection of securities whose collective performance is used as a standard to measure investment results e.g. Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Standard and Poor’s 500, Wilshire 5000.font

Nasdaq Composite Index – MARKET-value weighted index, where each company’s securities affects Index in proportion to its market value; (market value is last sale price multiplied by total shares outstanding, calculated throughout the day)

NOTE: Nasdaq Composite index includes over 5,000 companies; therefore broad-based and widely used

Dow Jones Industrial Average Index – a PRICE-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue chip (high value) stocks, primarily industrials, but also American Express and AT &T Company.
It is the oldest and most widely quoted index; calculated by adding closing prices of component stocks and using special DIVISOR that is adjusted for splits and stock dividends equal to 10% or more of market value of an issue (as well as substitutions and mergers); quoted in points, not dollars

Based on Dow Theory (Dow theory maintains that no real market trends exist unless correlation occurs in industrial, transportation and utility averages)

Therefore, the main differences between Nasdaq and Dow Jones Indexes are: number of companies used for calculations, whether market value-weighted or price-weighted, time and frequency of calculation, and use in Dow Jones Index of divisor in calculations

Other terms:

TSE – Toronto Stock Exchange (Canada’s largest stock exchange)
TSE300 – Toronto Stock Exchange 100 Index (Canadian form of S&P500)

Bull – Investor whoo expects stock prices to rise
Bear – Investor who believes stock prices about to decline

Options – Give holder right to buy (call) or sell (put) a specified amount of an underlying security at a specific price within a specified time frame

I can add that if you go to https://www.fantasystocks.com/glossary/, you can get a lot of good definitions/explanations re. Nasdaq, Dow Jones and other stock market related terms.

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