Successful traders in real life develop a set of knowledge-based skills that help them deal with changing economic conditions that can affect all of their investing decisions. Further, to participate in stock market trading activities, an investor must become proficient in the mechanics of how the markets actually work, while also mastering the concurrent skills of research, analysis, and effective decision making.
Japan today appears to be slowly climbing out of a decade of recession.
Mirroring these and many other classic symptoms, the stock market by early 1999 had sunk to the lowest levels in over fifteen years. It would be impossible to discuss the myriad reasons for the economy's downturn in a few short pages. However, as an overview to the topic of educating teachers about participating in the stock market, the lessons of the Japanese markets are instructional. Only toward the end of the expansion and throughout the 1990s has the term obtained universal comprehension among the ordinary citizenry. In Japan, share-ownership is controlled mostly by business corporations and institutions.