The stock market is one of the most misunderstood aspects of finance. Many people do not entirely know the way it works and will occasionally need the help of a financial expert in order for them to profit in this venture. For you to venture into this market it is advisable that you do your research to have a basic understanding of how it all works. It is important to understand from the very start that every investment that you make with your money carries a degree of risk.However, there are those that do not have such high risks. It is also important to be aware that it is almost always that the investment that has the lowest risk also has the least potential to make profit. There are many factors that affect the way the movement of the stock prices. Information plays an important role, in that if it is available to the public it can make a difference on whether the prices will move up or down.The public reaction to information will always affect the stork market. One way for you to gain from the varying stock prices is to buy when prices are low and then hope that the price goes up. This is when you sell and the difference between what you sold it for and what you bought it for is your capital gain. For you to be able to get the most of stock prices you have to be able to master the art of demand and supply.As with any other business, the stock market also works on the same principle. Simply put, if there are many people willing to buy a particular stock than there are willing to sell, the stock price will go up. If there are more people willing to sell than buy, then it will go down. Learn how to watch the market and soon you will be making unimaginable profits.

In its most popular sense, a finance stock market is an outfit that specializes in the sale and trading of securities such as stocks and bonds. In this sense you have the New York Stock Exchange and the other stock exchange organizations around the world. The stock classifications included in a finance market will be as varied as the types of corporations that apply to be listed with them. Thus you have, under one marketing umbrella, stocks representing part ownership in companies that cater to every type of commodity and/or service you can think of. Given the thousands of corporations showcased in financial markets, it will be difficult for a first-timer to get a listing of participating companies based on some criteria.Running parallel with and facilitating the operation of financial markets, index lists or “indexes” for short provide a way for people to easily look for companies they are interested in. An index may be global in which case the companies listed in it will be huge corporations from all over the world. A good example of a global index is the S&P global 100 index which includes such corporations as Toyota, McDonalds, Kimberley-Clarke and Nissan. To view the corporations selling under this list, you simply have to “Google” the phrase. On the other hand, you have the national indexes which list down corporations within a specific country.It is interesting to note that the convenience that indexes provide for classifying stock investments has led to another form of financial market. Index funds have arisen around certain indexes. An index fund is similar to a mutual fund. The thrust of this organization is to function as an investor cum stock broker for people interested in putting their money on indexed stocks. Contributions are accepted from buyers and the funds are pooled together to buy selected stocks from index lists. The annual profit is evenly distributed among the contributors pro rata.The nature of index fund investments is unlike traditional stock trading. Money is invested in stocks which are known to yield a regular income. There is not much speculation done and this type of investment may be broadly considered as an income stock investment. As such they are called passively managed stocks as opposed to the actively managed stock trading. The profits are proportionate to the money invested and will often be limited to 10% of the buyer’s participation in the fund.Lately, it has been observed that the returns from index funds are becoming more popular because of the relatively small amount of risk involved. Playing the financial market has averaged a return of 1.8% less than index funds that put their money on certain popular indexes.As you can very well see, investing in the financial markets need not be a difficult thing for you to pull through and make a visible profit from your investment which may not be enough to buy luxuries but will certain go a long way towards augmenting your funds when needed. Besides you always have the option of re-selling your stocks.

Born in the Austrian Empire (now Croatia) in 1856, Nikola Tesla was one of the foremost inventors of the twentieth century with an amazingly long list of devices coming out of his fertile mind, including a viable free energy apparatus. Tesla traveled to the United States and in 1891 and became an American citizen. He died penniless in 1943 in New York City.Tesla was most famous for his work with electricity, most often in the areas of electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering. Tesla was hired by Thomas Edison shortly after Tesla came to America in 1888 but after a time, his relationship soured with Edison and Tesla decided to form his own company called Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing.A celebrity then but almost unknown these days, Tesla’s inventions and knowledge are at the root of much of present day and perhaps even future advances. This is even more astonishing when you consider that all of this happened roughly 100 years ago! Tesla was a committed promoter of alternating current as opposed to direct current as was championed by Edison for the transmission of electrical current. The catch with direct (DC) current is that it can’t be sent more than a few city blocks before losing voltage. AC current can be sent for very long distances at very high voltages and then stepped down by voltage transformers at or near its final destination.All of Edison’s devices were centered on DC current and he was unwilling to dismiss of the notion of having DC current grow to be the standard for the transmission of electricity. Edison defended his position on DC current by stating that electrical motors could not operate on alternating (AC) current. Tesla answered that drawback by inventing the induction electric motor, still utilized today, that operates on AC power. Edison’s commitment to DC power was slow to diminish and so a kind of war started between Edison and Tesla after Tesla went into alliance with George Westinghouse for the purpose of developing AC as the standard for electrical power transmission. Tesla and Westinghouse eventually were victorious in the “current war” and alternating current became the standard and remains so today.Tesla’s devices included wireless communications, although Gugliemo Marconi, an Italian inventor, beat Tesla to the punch by sending the first transatlantic radio signal. Tesla also did pioneering work with X-rays, lasers, cellular technology, neon and high voltage devices. Tesla also made early contributions in the sciences of ballistics, theoretical physics, nuclear physics, radar, robotics, remote control and computer science. Many of Tesla’s inventions were powered by another creation of his that was known as the “Tesla coil.”He also developed a way of sending electricity through the air, utilizing the conductivity of the earth to run vehicles distantly. One of his dreams was to have automobiles powered remotely by a free energy transmitting station. The electricity would be transmitted through the air with the earth making up the other half of the circuit. This was never developed on a practical level.Other Tesla endeavors included the creation of the initial hydroelectric power plant (in association with George Westinghouse) located at Niagara Falls and the AC electric lighting of the 1893 World’s Fair. Helped by investment from J.P Morgan, Tesla built an experimental electricity transmission tower called the Wardenclyffe Tower in 1901. When J.P. Morgan discovered that one of the uses of Tesla’s tower would be the generation of free electricity, he pulled back his financing because he realized that the very lucrative business of commercial power generation would become obsolete and he refused to let that take place.The loss of funding for Wardenclyffe Tower came as terrible news to Tesla. After Tesla’s death, all of his paperwork and designs were locked up by an agency of the Federal Government on the orders of J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the F.B.I. Most of Tesla’s inventions were far ahead of his time and represented a real financial threat to those who stood to profit from the existing technology of the day. Because of this, Tesla was deliberately “erased” from history and his name is only now becoming known again.In the present, as the humanity search for low-cost sources of non-polluting electrical power, Tesla’s re-emergence into public awareness may be timed perfectly. Tesla truly did learn the secrets of free energy and his plans for an un-complicated, cheap free energy device are now available to the public once more.No doubt, great progress has been and is being made in the areas of solar and wind electric power generation but, for the most part, electricity still comes from fossil fuels. Home solar systems are still unaffordable for most homeowners as are home windmills. Tesla’s free energy apparatus, is constructed from widely available electrical parts, has no moving parts and claims to use cosmic rays as a source of power.It’s amazing that one individual come up with so many ingenious and practical concepts and inventions in a single life span. That, strangely, may have something to do with a mental condition that Tesla suffered from for most of his life. Tesla stated that he was prone to seeing blinding flashes of light and that he saw visions of new ideas and answers to problems at the same time. He said that these flashes were almost universally triggered by a single word he read or heard that remained in his consciousness.Towards the end of his life, Tesla also struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder that featured an obsessive fear of germs and the need to have the important numbers in his life (such as his hotel room number 3327) be divisible by 3. In spite of his mental afflictions, Tesla appeared to make positive use of them as did another obsessive-compulsive giant of the twentieth century, Howard Hughes.