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TL,DR: Choose suitable investments based on your goals and risk tolerance. “Pete Townshend was conflicted because he feared The Who had sold out, and seeing The Sex Pistols, who were icons of rebellion, exacerbated him even more. Pete left that bar and passed out in a random doorway in Soho (a part of London). A policeman recognized him ("A policeman knew my name") and being kind, woke him and told him, "You can go sleep at home tonight (instead of a jail cell), if you can get up and walk awa...
☀️ ESG
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Helping future investors understand finance and crypto using digestible analogies. I hope you brought your appetite. Not a financial advisor
🍃 Treasury Bill
TL,DR: Like lettuce, lacking substance Treasury Bills / Lettucelacking substanceshort lifespansafe and mildly nutritiousEatamology “T-Bills” or “Bills” for short refer to the hard copy form of these bonds, which looks very much like a dollar bill, and which was created by President Hoover at the start of the Great Depression to raise money for the government when tax income dropped dramatically. The Department of the Treasury, a division of the Executive Branch (which is controlled by POTUS),...
🚶Who are you?
TL,DR: Choose suitable investments based on your goals and risk tolerance. “Pete Townshend was conflicted because he feared The Who had sold out, and seeing The Sex Pistols, who were icons of rebellion, exacerbated him even more. Pete left that bar and passed out in a random doorway in Soho (a part of London). A policeman recognized him ("A policeman knew my name") and being kind, woke him and told him, "You can go sleep at home tonight (instead of a jail cell), if you can get up and walk awa...
☀️ ESG
TL,DR: ESG designations are labels meant to indicate ethical products ESG | Organic, Non-GMO, Ethically SourcedLike organic, non-gmo, and ethically sourced marketing labels, ESG labels are applied when a company allegedly meets regulatory standardsCan be related to the product itself, or associated impacts from the productEatamology “ESG” stands for environmental, social, and governance. It’s a broad and sometimes subjective label that attracts investors concerned about outcomes and ethics in...
Helping future investors understand finance and crypto using digestible analogies. I hope you brought your appetite. Not a financial advisor

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TL,DR: Not all transactions are the same
Market Order / Accepting the Price
Like checking out at the grocery store and paying the cashier the amount displayed on the register, market orders are transactions at the current price and do not involve negotiation.
Limit Order / Negotiating the Price
Like haggling on price, limit orders involve consumers setting a maximum or minimum amount for a transaction, and will only be processed if both parties accept the proposed price. Imagine you are at a farmer’s market and cannot afford the listed price of $3/lb on a bushel of corn. You might feel ostentatious enough to demand $2/lb or walk away from the deal, at which point the farmer can accept or tell you to take a hike. Limit orders happen the same way, via a simple price modification within online brokerage platforms.
Eatamology
“Market” refers to how orders are typically executed at the current price available on the financial marketplace.
“Limit” refers to the limitations on a buyer or seller’s willingness to pay.
Financials
When buying or selling a product, a brokerage will give you the option to place a market order or a limit order. With a market order, you are accepting the next available price for a product. Behind the scenes, the broker is looking for a counter-party to buy what you are selling, or sell what you are buying. they have estimated a price for you, similar to the price you may see on a product in the grocery store aisle shelf, which-is never guaranteed until checkout. At checkout, brokerage platforms will notify you if the price has changed substantially from its listed value, and if it has gotten worse - they may cancel the trade. Typically they will also cancel any trades not executed before the end of day - which is 4pm in the stock market. To avoid the risk of price movement or guarantee a price, investors set limit orders, which say “I will pay no more than XX for this product.”
TL,DR: Not all transactions are the same
Market Order / Accepting the Price
Like checking out at the grocery store and paying the cashier the amount displayed on the register, market orders are transactions at the current price and do not involve negotiation.
Limit Order / Negotiating the Price
Like haggling on price, limit orders involve consumers setting a maximum or minimum amount for a transaction, and will only be processed if both parties accept the proposed price. Imagine you are at a farmer’s market and cannot afford the listed price of $3/lb on a bushel of corn. You might feel ostentatious enough to demand $2/lb or walk away from the deal, at which point the farmer can accept or tell you to take a hike. Limit orders happen the same way, via a simple price modification within online brokerage platforms.
Eatamology
“Market” refers to how orders are typically executed at the current price available on the financial marketplace.
“Limit” refers to the limitations on a buyer or seller’s willingness to pay.
Financials
When buying or selling a product, a brokerage will give you the option to place a market order or a limit order. With a market order, you are accepting the next available price for a product. Behind the scenes, the broker is looking for a counter-party to buy what you are selling, or sell what you are buying. they have estimated a price for you, similar to the price you may see on a product in the grocery store aisle shelf, which-is never guaranteed until checkout. At checkout, brokerage platforms will notify you if the price has changed substantially from its listed value, and if it has gotten worse - they may cancel the trade. Typically they will also cancel any trades not executed before the end of day - which is 4pm in the stock market. To avoid the risk of price movement or guarantee a price, investors set limit orders, which say “I will pay no more than XX for this product.”
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