by Rachel Fox of FoxOnStocks.com

When I started learning about the stock market around four years ago, I kept hearing people talk about the Dow – they’d say, “the Dow is up by 130 points today” or “how will the oil spill in the gulf affect the Dow” — and on and on. I kept hearing about the Dow. I knew that before I could start trading or investing in the stock market, that I had to understand all about the Dow.

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One of the things I learned when I researched all about the Dow (same as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, DJIA) is that the Dow is kind of like a batter’s average that lets you see from day to day, whether stock market prices are going up, down, or staying around the same.

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