Stock Market Crossword Puzzle

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Answer key: Stock Market Crossword

1PR2OFITOW3B4BEARNEITE5BULLDFRRLOO6IL7TKN8DIVIDENDOCREKXE9SHARE

Across 1 PROFIT · 4 BEAR · 5 BULL · 8 DIVIDEND · 9 SHARE

Down 1 PORTFOLIO · 2 OWNER · 3 BELL · 4 BID · 5 BROKER · 6 INDEX · 7 TICKER

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Shares and Companies 25

  • Annual ___ report: a company's account of its activities over the preceding year
  • Bankrupt Unable to pay its debts; ordinary stockholders are then last in line
  • Board ___ of directors: governing body that supervises a business
  • Buyback A company's purchase of its own stock
  • Certificate Legal paper for a stockholding, now being supplanted by electronic registration
  • Common ___ stock: the kind that comes with a say at meetings
  • Dividend Payout a company sends its stockholders
  • Equity Another word for stock: an ownership interest
  • Fiscal ___ year: twelve months of accounts that need not start in January
  • Founder The one who began the business
  • IPO Three letters for a company's first offering of stock to all comers
  • Listed Word for a company whose stock is admitted for trading on an exchange
  • Merger Deal in which two companies are combined into one
  • Owner What a stockholder is, in part, of the company
  • Preferred ___ stock: usually no say at meetings, but first in line for payouts
  • Private Word for a company whose stock is held and transferred out of the open market
  • Prospectus Disclosure booklet with financial statements and biographies of officers
  • Proxy Person named to cast a ballot for an absent member
  • Quarterly Word for a financial report that covers three months
  • Share One unit of a company's stock
  • Split Stock ___: after a 2-for-1, each investor holds double the number
  • Stake A holder's part of a company
  • Takeover Purchase of one company, the target, by another
  • Underwriter Investment bank that arranges a company's first stock sale
  • Vote A stockholder's say at company meetings

Buying and Selling 28

  • Ask Price a seller wants
  • Bell It marks the start and the end of each trading day
  • Bid Price a buyer offers
  • Broker Go-between who places your trades for a fee
  • Clearing All the activity between agreeing to a deal and completing it
  • Commission What a discount firm charges less of than a full-service one
  • Dealer Firm that buys and sells for its own account
  • Floor Trading ___: room where prices were once shouted
  • Fraud What pump and dump is a form of
  • Futures Contracts to buy or sell at a predetermined price for later delivery
  • Hedge Position meant to offset losses in another position
  • Insider ___ trading: dealing on material facts that have not been made known
  • Limit Kind of instruction that names a price: buy at no more, sell at no less
  • Liquidity Being able to sell an asset quickly without a drastic change in its price
  • Lot Round ___: normal trading unit, usually 100 in the US
  • Maker Market ___: firm that stands ready both to buy and to sell
  • Margin Deposit a holder must leave with a counterparty as collateral
  • Option Contract that gives the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell
  • Order Instruction to buy or sell
  • Outcry Open ___: trading by shouting and hand signals
  • Pit Part of an exchange where traders shouted and used hand signals
  • Quote Market data on one stock: its latest buy, sell or last-sale price
  • Session The trading day, from the first ring at 9:30 am Eastern in New York
  • Settlement Last step of a trade, when stock and cash actually change hands
  • Speculator One who buys hoping an asset will be worth more in a brief time
  • Spread Gap between the buyer's price and the seller's
  • Volume How many units of a stock changed hands during a day
  • Weekday Kind of day when an exchange is usually open

Ups and Downs 26

  • Bear Animal that names a falling market
  • Boom Stretch when business grows fast
  • Breaker Circuit ___: trading pause meant to prevent a free fall
  • Bubble Period when prices greatly exceed what the assets are worth
  • Bull Animal that names a rising market
  • Correction Drop of more than 10% from recent highs
  • Crash Sudden, steep drop in prices
  • Dip Small, brief fall
  • Halt Stop in all trading
  • Monday Black ___: October 19, 1987, a severe and largely unexpected fall worldwide
  • Optimistic Hopeful: the mood when prices keep rising
  • Panic ___ selling: what drives a sudden, dramatic decline
  • Peak Highest point before a fall
  • Pessimistic Gloomy: the mood when prices keep declining
  • Plunge Fall fast and far
  • Rally Period of sustained increases in prices
  • Rebound Come back after a fall
  • Recession Business cycle contraction: a broad decline in activity
  • Sentiment The general prevailing attitude of investors
  • Slump Long stretch of falling prices
  • Soar Climb fast and high
  • Surge Sudden strong rise
  • Trend Tendency of a market to move in one direction over time
  • Trillion Worldwide losses on October 19, 1987 were put at 1.71 of these, in dollars
  • Twenty Percent move in a broad measure that marks a rising or falling market, by a U.S. glossary
  • Volatility Degree of variation of a trading price over time

Funds and Measures 23

  • Analyst Person who studies companies and estimates their worth
  • Benchmark Yardstick that an investment's results are compared with
  • Bond Tradable IOU: the borrower repays the principal at maturity
  • Cap Market ___: price multiplied by the number of units investors hold
  • Chart Graph of a price over time
  • Chip Blue ___: stock of a company with a national reputation for quality and reliability
  • Diversify Put money into a variety of holdings, not just one
  • Earnings What a company makes in a period; EPS divides it per unit of stock
  • ETF Three letters for a basket of holdings that is bought and sold like one stock
  • Fund Mutual ___: pool of money from many investors
  • Gain Capital ___: what is made by selling for more than was paid
  • Income ___ stock: one held for its steady payouts
  • Index One figure that stands for a whole basket of stocks
  • Outstanding Word for all the units of stock now held by investors
  • Penny ___ stock: one that trades for less than $5
  • Poker Card game whose highest-value token gave top stocks their nickname
  • Portfolio All of one investor's holdings
  • Profit What is left when you sell for more than you paid
  • Ratio P/E ___: price measured against what the company makes
  • Return What an investment gives back over time
  • Risk What an investor takes on: prices can go down
  • Utility Power or water company; an established one is a likely steady payer
  • Yield Yearly cash payout divided by the current price, as a percentage

Wall Street and History 24

  • Amsterdam City whose exchange is often considered the oldest modern market of its kind
  • Bourse Word for an exchange, traced to the Van der Beurze family's inn
  • Bucket ___ shop: place for bets on prices, defined by a 1906 Supreme Court ruling
  • Buttonwood Tree under which, by legend, 24 New York stockbrokers signed their 1792 agreement
  • Coffee A ___ house opened around 1680 was the first home of one great exchange
  • Confidence What people lost in U.S. markets in October 1929
  • Congress It held hearings after October 1929 and passed two new laws
  • Counter Over-the-___: traded directly between two parties
  • Curb ___ trading: dealing first done in the street near the market
  • Depression Great ___: worldwide hard times that the 1929 fall cascaded into
  • Dutch Nationality of the 1602 East India trading company, an early issuer of stock
  • Joint ___-stock company: business form of which an East India firm of 1602 was among the first
  • London City whose stock exchange was founded in 1801
  • Manhattan New York borough whose lower end is the Financial District
  • Pink ___ sheet trading: another name for dealing off the exchanges
  • Regulator Agency that sets and enforces the rules of a market
  • SEC Three letters of the U.S. agency created in 1934
  • Symbol Short code of letters that identifies one company's stock
  • Tape Ribbon that carried prices by wire from around 1870 to 1970
  • Telegraph Wire system that carried stock prices from around 1870
  • Ticker Machine that printed prices on a long strip
  • Truth What a company selling stock must tell about its business, by the 1930s laws
  • Tulip Flower whose bulb prices collapsed in February 1637
  • Wall ___ Street: eight city blocks in New York

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for grades 6 to 12, in five sets. Definitions, dates and figures were checked against Investor.gov, the investor education site of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) in October 2026. Clues define terms and tell history. None is investment advice, and no company, fund or index of today is an answer. Licence: own work

How it works

This stock market crossword puzzle prints on Letter or A4, answer key included. The first puzzle has 12 words, among them Share, Dividend, Broker, Index, Bull, Bear, Portfolio and Ticker. Clues define terms; none is investment advice.

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Five sets after the basics

Shares and Companies has Equity, Proxy, Prospectus and Buyback. Buying and Selling has Bid, Ask, Spread and Margin. Ups and Downs has Bubble, Correction, Rally and Volatility. Funds and Measures has Bond, Yield, Benchmark and Diversify. Wall Street and History has Buttonwood, Tulip, Bourse and Curb.

Dates and figures a class can check

History clues carry their figures: the tulip collapse of February 1637, the coffee house of around 1680, the 24 stockbrokers of 1792, the price tape of 1870 to 1970, the agency created in 1934 and the fall of October 19, 1987.

  • No company, fund or index of today is an answer, so the sheet does not date.

Questions and answers

Is there a printable stock market crossword puzzle with answers?

Yes. Each print ends with the answer key: the filled grid and the answers listed by clue number. Printing costs nothing and needs no sign-up.

What grade is the stock market crossword puzzle for?

Stock Market Basics suits grades 6 to 8. The five themed sets suit a high school economics, business or personal finance class, with answers such as Prospectus, Liquidity and Volatility. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

What is the difference between a bull market and a bear market?

In a bull market stock prices are rising and the mood is optimistic; in a bear market they are declining and the mood is pessimistic. The SEC's Investor.gov glossary puts each at a move of 20% or more in a broad index.

What is a dividend?

A portion of a company's profit paid to its shareholders, usually on a fixed schedule. Dividend is an answer in Stock Market Basics.

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