3. Today’s Learning Intention:
Explore market forces and the secondary
sharemarket.
Success Criteria: Able to explain –
• demand and supply
• the purpose of the secondary market
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5. Market Forces
• Demand – how many people want to buy
something and how much they are prepared
to play.
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6. Market Forces
• Supply – how many people want to buy
something and how much they are willing to
pay for it.
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7. Activity – Buying Jeans
• You are going to buy jeans. What things are
you going to consider?
• Write down 4 things you will consider when
buying jeans.
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9. Activity – Supplying Jeans
• What things is the supplier of the jeans going
to consider?
• Write down 6 things you think the supplier
will consider when making and supplying the
jeans.
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11. Secondary Market
• As soon as a company issues shares as part of
its float, those shares can be traded on the
Secondary Market at the ASX.
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12. How The Sharemarket Works
• Buyers and sellers in the sharemarket
exchange shares for a particular price. When
both buyer and seller agree on a price per
share a trade takes place.
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14. How The Sharemarket Works
• The price of shares on the secondary
sharemarket is determined by demand and
supply just like other markets. When the
demand for a stock is greater than the number
of shares available at a particular price, the
price of the stock increases. When there is no
demand for a stock at a particular price, the
price falls.
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16. Demand and Supply Game
• Play the Demand and Supply Game at
http://www.shmoop.com/supply-
demand/game.html
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17. Handout 1 – Market Forces
• Complete the Market Forces Handout
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18. Review:
1. Explain the purpose
of the secondary
market.
2. What two major
factors influence the
price of a share.
3. Describe a learning
strategy you used
today.
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Editor's Notes
You can see from the Table 1 in this lesson that there are three buyers and three sellers of shares in XYZ Company. Buyer A is prepared to buy XYZ shares at $1.00 per share. Buyer B and C prefer to pay less so Buyer A has placed the highest “bid”. For a trade to take place there needs to be a seller wishing to sell the shares at $1 per share and that is Seller E.