Learn about how the stock market works, how prices are determined, and how to start buying and selling stocks. Pricing is a very important part of the market. Put very simply, the price of a share is decided by its supply and demand. The amount of shares available for sale and the amount of shares buyers want determines how a stock is priced by the market. If a lot of people want to buy stock in one company (high demand) the price may go up. If there are too many people wanting to sell stock (high supply) in one company the price may go down.

Learn how the U.S. stock market has rebounded from different crises and the performance of specific bear and bull market periods. The impact to the market from COVID-19 is unprecedented but not entirely new, How bull and bear markets performed in the past, What you should do in times of high market volatility

Learn about some strategies (both financial and mental) to help you cope with a “bear” financial market. Bear markets can certainly be scary times for investors, and nobody enjoys watching the value of their portfolios go down. On the other hand, these can be opportunities to put money to work for the long run while stocks are trading at a discount. Bear market examples: Bear markets are quite common. Since 1900, there have been 33 of them, so they occur every 3.6 years on average. Just to name the three most recent notable examples: 2000-2002 dot-com crash: 2008-2009 financial crisis: 2020 COVID-19 crash: