If you’ve ever wanted to jump into the stock market there’s a lot you should know first. Most people think that if they read a few wikipedia articles about how there’s cost and price and capitalization and their set. But what about the history of the stock market? What about what the stock market actually is?

Well this little site all about the stock market can help you get started and learn the history about not only the New York Stock Exchange but also other stock exchanges around the world. The NYSE isn’t the oldest in the world so knowing what other markets have done might be able to help you better understand and “beat” the market wherever you are.

The article that I would start out with is the article titled how does the stock market work?. If you don’t know already, the stock market exists so companies can get more money to grow with. Of course the stock market makes a lot of company owners rich. But really, that’s just a by product. Go find out what the market really means to a companies bottom line.

The next article I would read, actually, if you have one to read read this one, is the article on the stock market crash of 1929. It’s probably the most important crash in history. More important than the ‘87 crash or the recent Bubbly Burst. It sent the nation into a depression. To help the world avoid repeating history you have to know what happened in history. If everyone knew about this market crash and why it really started maybe we could avoid later crashes. But then again we’d have to eliminate greed too.