I'm 15 and could somebody please explain what stocks are and how you make money investing off them ?

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a common stock is a share and shares are traded at a market called a stockmarket, when a lot of people want to have the share the prise or the course so it is called on the stockmarket can go up. Or when there is some bad news or when a company did not tell on time the financial sistuation of the company the course can go down, you read it can go but not certain what happens.

thus when a company pays a dividend you get dividend in cash or in stock depend on the amount of shares the person have and the height of the dividend and the stockmarket or the country where the company is situated

on a saving account you get after a year 1%, but wehn the dividend per share is less then you would get when you put the money in a saving account, then it is probably that a person sells the shares and have a gain or a lost, sometimes it is better to have a lost on shares