How Markets Work

This lesson explains why a healthy stock market signals a healthy economy, why capital concentration matters, and why the Dow Jones is called the world's economic thermometer.

This lesson teaches the four factors - global, regional, sector, and company - that cause the market to rise or fall, with concrete examples of each.

This lesson explains stop-high and stop-low daily limits - how they protect individual stocks from extreme swings and the trade-offs they create for investors.

This lesson explains the US circuit breaker: its three trigger levels, how it was born from the 1987 crash, and how it was used four times in March 2020.

This lesson explains what short selling is, how it works, and its genuine advantages and disadvantages for the market and individual investors.

A quick timed recap of everything covered in Course 1 - exchanges, market importance, the four factors, stop limits, circuit breakers, and short selling.