Stock Market 101

Boiler Rooms Pump and Dump Short and Distort Poop and Scoop Wrong Number Ponzi Scheme Introduction From the outside, the stock market seems to be a chaotic stew of mysterious numbers and larger-than-life personalities, a place where billions of dollars trade hands every day. Unlike other market catastrophes, this one wasn’t brought on by a specific definable event. Facebook (FB) Tech stocks typically trade for more than the corporations are worth on paper, with a lot of value placed on their expected future innovations and success. KKR kicked Johnson out of his post at the company, but Johnson still won in the end.