Tham khảo tài liệu 'elaine scott - stocks and bonds profits and losses - a quick look at financial markets 1985_2', tài chính - ngân hàng, đầu tư chứng khoán phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | N . Ắ w early every person reading this book has probably at one time or another played the game of Monopoly. At the beginning of the game each player is given 1 500 to invest in real estate railroads and utility companies and the player who turns his 1 500 into the most money wins. Throughout the game players try to increase the money they make their profits a profit is the money a business has left after its expenses are paid by charging other players rent when they land on their property or collecting payment for the ride should they land on their railroads or charging them a varying fee if they land on the electric company or the water company and thus use those utilities. In addition to money they get from their properties players can win or lose extra money from other sources depending on the cards they draw from stacks called Chance and Community Chest. There is one card among many others in the Chance stack that says Bank pays you dividend of another from Community Chest that says From sale of stock you get . 3 Throughout the years probably millions of games of Monopoly have been played by hundreds of thousands of people. Boys and girls men and women have collected 50 from the dividend card and 45 from the stock sale card over and over again. However many young people who collect that money may not know what a dividend or a share of stock is. They may realize that dividends and stock sales can generate income money in the game of Monopoly and therefore are good things to have but they may not realize that stocks and bonds and dividends all generate income in the game of real-life investing too. Monopoly is a game with certain rules for playing it. Investing in the real world is different. Even though people often refer to playing the market and it is true that investing can be fun it is not a game. Still there are certain guidelines that investors can follow that will increase their chances of making money in the markets. Since statistics say .
