Article series: things you might not know about the stock market

If you’ve scrolled through some of the articles on MuslimShareTrader, you may have noticed many articles are ‘how to’-style articles. Some articles are reviews – either of platforms or books and you may have even noticed some really long articles.

To add to the variety of articles, we’re putting out articles that have a common theme: things you might not know about the stock market.

These articles are relatively short where we bring to light little known facts about the stock market.

Enjoy!

A selction of topics in this article series:

1. Things you might not know about the stock market: investors pay stamp duty on shares they buy

2. Things you might not know about the stock market: it’s easy to (legally) avoid paying tax on share purchases

3. Things you might not know about the stock market: the share price you see on Google is not what you pay (‘spread’)

4. Things you might not know about the stock market: buy and selling shares occurs even after the stock market closes

5. Things you might not know about the stock market: income from dividend payments are taxable…but there’s a (legal) way to avoid paying tax on it (ISA)

6. Things you might not know about the stock market: it costs £1 to execute a trade, so how comes you don’t pay £1?

7. Things you might not know about the stock market: ‘market makers’ make the stock market tick on