Stocks: Stocks are shares of companies that they sell. Then when they are purchased a person can use them to make money. When the stock value goes up you can sell the stock and make back what you spent and also what you made when the stock value increased. however stocks also work the other way. They do not always go up. At times stocks also decrease in value you and you can end up loosing money.

Dividends: I am not exactly sure what a dividend is but I think that it is something among the lines of being the money that a company makes and then has to pay to the share holders or they can reinvest the money they made back into the company.

Trades: Trades are when a person buys a stock but only for a short amount of time. The stock cheap knowing that it is soon going to drastically increase in value and then once it does they sell the stock. Trades are used to make quick cash. They generally do not make as large of a value as some one who has invested in stock, but they can still make quite a bit.

Catalyst: Catalysts are anything that can affect the stock market. They cause a reaction that can either increase or decrease the value of a stock. For instance on Halloween kit kat stocks will mostly likely go up because they will sell al larger amount of candy for the holiday, but if Halloween was on a Thursday instead of a Saturday they might not sell as much cause the stock not to rise. Halloween and the day it falls on would be a catalyst because it causes a change in the stock value.