PART 1.
How to buy and sell stocks

Intro
1 If you do it on Home, it's HTS, if you do it on Mobile, it's MTS
Check! I just need to open a stock account, but "consignment"? "comprehensive"? What are they all?
Understanding the 2nd house
3 Various information currently displayed in the window
4 Terminology in the Stock Order Screen
5 Different Stock Ordering Methods
6 How to determine the number of shares
7 Check your stock balance
Check! I don't go to church, but I have a deposit.

Check! I know the simultaneous and the hoga, but what is the simultaneous hoga?

PART 2.
Essential Concepts for Stock Investing

Intro
1. Conceptual Differences Between Securities and Stocks
A dividend that is good if given in two weeks, but cannot be avoided
3. What gives preferred stock priority over common stock?
4. Capital and capital stock of the company
5 Capital increase and capital decrease
Comprehensive stock price index that collects the prices of 6 stocks
7 Various Market Stabilization Measures
The first step to buying and selling stocks is an initial public offering (IPO).
9 Everything You Need to Know About Investing in IPOs
10 Short Selling: You Can Sell Even If You Don't Own the Stock
Check! Korea Exchange (KRX)

PART 3.
A Picture of the Stock Market: Charts

Intro
1 Types of charts
Meaning of 2 candles
3. Moving average line, a line that indicates the trend
4. If you only look at the price, it's low, but if you look at the trading volume, it's high.
Check! Among the numerous candlestick patterns on the chart, here are some helpful patterns to know.

PART 4.
Indicators of strong stocks

Intro
1 Where to find corporate information and disclosures: DART
2. Household ledger used by companies: Financial statements
3 Report Cards for Companies: Operating Profit Margin
4 How much did you earn compared to what you have? : ROA, ROE
5 When you want to know if a stock is cheap or expensive: PER
6 When you want to know if a stock is cheap or expensive: PBR
Check! The Relationship Between PER, PBR, and ROE
Check! A reference site where you can easily check financial ratios.

PART 5: Practical Investment Methods

Intro
1 Finding Undervalued Stocks
2 Applying PER that reflects profitability
3 Applying PBR that reflects asset value
4. Growth Stock Investment: Riding the Running Horse
5 Dividend Stocks for Bankers and People You Love
Check! Trends exist in the stock market, too: Theme stocks

PART 6: Investing in US Stocks Made Easy

Intro
1 Why should I buy US stocks that I don't own?
Check! Information Asymmetry
2 How to Buy US Stocks
3 Differences between the Korean and US markets
4. Taxes and Fees (Korea vs. US)
5 Fundamentals of Global Investment: Exchange Rates
6 A Closer Look at US Stocks
Check! Recommended sites for finding US stocks

From HTS and MTS to how to invest in US stocks,
Stock knowledge for readers who want to start from the basics of stock investment.

〈Part 1.
How to Buy and Sell Stocks

In the first part, we explained how to buy and sell stocks.
Taking driving as an example, it is the stage of learning the functions of a car before getting a license, that is, learning to start the engine, drive straight, turn left and right, and even park.
While driving is done by car, stocks are traded using a simple system called MTS. The explanation explains how MTS allows you to check stock prices, buy and sell, and monitor your balance to determine your profit or loss.
Beginners who can't drive are intimidated by the abundance of information on the dashboard, steering wheel, gears, and various control buttons.
This book is a stock market common sense book for beginners.
So, let's start slowly through the first part and gently step on the accelerator.

〈Part 2.
Essential Concepts for Stock Investing

I explained stock concepts that most people have heard of at least once but are not fully aware of.

Aren't securities stocks? If you buy stocks, you're guaranteed to receive dividends, right? Beginners to investing can easily think like this.
By reading this part slowly, not only beginners but also those who have some interest in stocks and have been trading for a long time will be able to gain a deeper understanding of concepts they were previously unaware of.
You can learn about the concepts and differences between stocks and securities, and the concepts of dividend stocks and preferred stocks.
To understand the concept of stocks, the concept of a joint stock company, from which stocks are issued, is also explained.
Let's understand the management activities of a corporation, which is formed by issuing stocks to become capital, and increasing and decreasing capital while operating.
This time, let's become a manager and issue stocks as a major shareholder.
Let's look at stocks with the mindset of a manager, considering whether to increase or decrease capital to increase the value of our company.

〈Part 3.
A Picture of the Stock Market: Charts〉

There is so much information to consider when buying and selling stocks.
You need to look at the current price and trading volume, the price trend over time, the price information of other comparable stocks, and the current market situation.
There is information called a chart that is drawn as a picture so that you can see all this number and text information easily and quickly.
Just as there are notes in music, there are candles in a chart.
The length, shape, and color of the candle indicate its meaning, and candle notes are drawn on a musical score called a chart.
When many candles are gathered together, it indicates the trend of the price movement over the period, and various charts contain various information.
Among them, there is an easy explanation of charts that would be good for beginners in stock investing to know.

〈Part 4.
〉Indicators of strong stocks

If you know how to buy and sell stocks, you also need to know which types of stocks to choose.
Picking good stocks is like picking good companies.
To select a good company, how can we know how much it has in assets and liabilities, how much operating profit it generates, what its shareholder composition is, and what other information is crucial for investors to make an investment decision? Companies keep a ledger called financial statements.
The numbers in this ledger provide information on various financial ratios that indicate the company's current status and future prospects.
We also provide guidance on how to view DART, a collection of financial statements, and a reference site where you can check financial ratios.

〈Part 5.
Practical Investment Methods

Even if they buy the same stock, some people will hold it for a long time, while others will sell it as soon as they see a small profit and realize their profit.
Some say that the best stocks are stocks of companies that have developed innovative products, while others say that good stocks are stocks that do not have high growth rates but consistently pay dividends through stable management activities.
Stocks cannot be ranked in order of performance from first to last.
Stocks do not have a maturity date like time deposits, and there is no guarantee of returns equal to the promised interest rate.
So, in practice, there are various stock investment methods.
I hope you'll read this section and think about what investment methods are available and which ones are best suited to your personality.

〈Part 6.
Investing in US stocks is easy.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about how difficult it is to make profits in the domestic stock market.
The stock prices of major stocks with a significant impact on the market are falling, preventing the KOSPI index from rising significantly and showing a box-like trend.
So, stock investors are increasingly turning their attention to the U.S. market.
Investing in US stocks is not as difficult as it used to be, and there is ample access to information for making investment decisions. Furthermore, US companies are already deeply entrenched in our daily lives and are as familiar as domestic companies.
The reason I explain US stocks in the last part is that even beginners can invest in US stocks with just this much basic knowledge about stocks from this book.
Let's understand why you should buy US stocks, how to buy and sell them, differences from the Korean market, and other questions about taxes and exchange rates.
Let's become flexible investors who can invest in the Korean market when the Korean market is doing well and in the US market when the US market is doing well.