The seminar entitled Stock Market 101 was initiated by PSE Training Institute, the

Market Education Department (MED) in partnership with Regina Capital Development

Corporation and was held at PSE center Ortigas, Pasig City.

The PSE Training Institute, MEDs mandate extends to that of educating market
participants other than investors. Such are the listed companies, trading participants, analysts,
finance teachers, underwriters, and others. Accordingly, MED employs education as its primary
strategy for promotions and though initially conceived as a veritable marketing organization, its
principal activities compel MED to take upon itself the broader and estimable purpose of investor
education.

The seminar had enlightened me on the importance of knowing the basics of stocks and
how the stock market is working, especially when we are interested in investing our money for
our future.

During the seminar, it was pointed that stocks or stock market is the other way of
investing the hard-earned money of the people and have these hard-earned monies to further
grow faster than just depositing them in the banks.

For the audience of seminar, the seminar was grounded of principle that the stock market
is an active market where your money is secured, have a better return when we are planning to
invest for our futures and have the chance to grow our money for a long run.

The seminar run for 2 hours from 10:00AM to 12:00NN with two parts and two speakers.
The seminar is lined up with a credible speaker, Ms xxx a representative of PSE Training Institure,
MED and Ms.xxx an experienced stock broker from Regina Capital Development Corporation.

The first part of the seminar was about the Why, What, When, and How of the
stocks and stock market The speaker is very good for she delivered the seminar well, she
explained the basics in the simplest manner so that the diverse audience can relate. Of course,
Us, the audience is interested about the seminar for we signed up for it, but the speaker made it
more interesting for she prepared a good visual presentation. The visual presentation is catchy,
detailed, and informative. She made the presentation in a manner that her audience can cope up
on what she was discussing.

As an accountancy student, the terms about the stock that was used in the seminar is not
new to us because we had already encountered such terms in our subjects like the Financial
Accounting and Reporting and Financial Management thus as the seminar goes on we were
recollecting and correlating what we have learned in the classroom but the seminar gave me
more a depth insight about the stocks and how the theory we learned from the classroom
actually work in the real market. For instance, The ETF or Exchange Traded Fund, we know that
it is an Investment basket that is composed of different kind of stock thus, in this seminar the
speaker mentioned that this stock is the stocks of the blue chips company and it is highly
diversified stock and stable and this ETF investment is good for the beginners in the stock market.

I learned many things in the first seminar specially those practical ways that is not taught
in the classroom. For instance, on how can we buy stocks, the speaker mentioned that the stock
market is like the conventional market weve know, the wet and dry, but this market is the market
of stocks thus, we have the freedom to buy any stocks of over 250 publicly listed companies.
There are two ways to buy a stock, the traditional and the online. If we wanted to be guided and
to have advice from a broker in choosing a stock we can go to the traditional one, and If we have
an adequate knowledge on the stock market and we feel that we dont need such service we can
choose the online one

. The movement of prices in the stock market is based on speculation and so it is

fluctuating. The movement of the prices is also dependent on the overall economy of a country,
thus, dependent on the economy of the Philippines. For instance, if there is an inflation, as all we
know and have learned in the microeconomics that inflation is the overall movement of prices
thus it affects the operation of a certain company, their cash flow, therefore, there will be a
change in the price of stock of that company.

The second part of the seminar was about the usual trends in stock market, the cues when
the prices will rise and drop, and when to decide in buying and selling a stocks.
 The speaker is a good speaker, she delivered the discussion in not cohesive way, she
jumps from one topic from another a go back to the previous one. It makes us confused on what
she was discussing but from her talk we learned and absorbed something new. The presentation
is also detailed and informative though it is not updated compared to what she was discussing
about. I noticed that the second speaker topic is like an advance topic about stock, for she is
discussing something that is very confusing for the audience that is familiar about the stock and
stock market even us accountancy student made us confused on someway.

If you will invest then use the money in a short period of time better to save the
money in the bank

She mentioned those words with an explanation, she explained that the stock market is
for a long term investment where you will grow your money and save it in the long run. The stock
market is for people who has a strong will to take the risk, she mentioned The higher the risk,
the higher the return and the Stock market is fluctuating and it eliminates the investor who has
low tolerance about the risk, thus it is a test for those weak investors. I learned from this second
part that Stock market is like a gambling and a game of patience, if you know how to decide
properly and wait you will have a gain. That is why she is talking about the trend and the cues on
price fluctuations.

The whole seminar with two parts is very satisfying. I learned many things and add
something new to my knowledge specially from the first part of the seminar. Overall, it gave me
an in depth knowledge on how the stock really works in real market and how to deal with it in
case I will invest in the future. The seminar is also effective in inviting the audience to invest in
stock market if we want to have a long term investment that has a high return compared when
we save in the banks. I was enticed to invest but for now I dont have that resources to invest but
maybe in the near future.