What does the plate in the stock mean?

Many new investors don't understand some words in the stock market, such as what is a sector stock? Here, let's simply popularize what sector stocks are, so as to better help investors understand the stock market and invest rationally.

"Sector stock" is essentially a concept of "correlation" and "association" with its industry. Regional economic layout, industry life cycle and national industrial policies have a far-reaching impact on listed companies. Positive policies will drive these listed companies to rise as a whole, otherwise they will fall as a whole. These groups of listed companies with the same characteristics in industries, regions and hotspots are called "plates", such as steel plate, petrochemical plate, low-carbon environmental protection plate, Expo plate, Internet of Things plate, and so on.

The plate often becomes the subject matter that the main market forces use for speculation. As a result, the plates were pushed out one by one and eliminated one by one. The launch of each "hot plate" will bring about stock market fluctuations, big or small, long or short. Once investors can find the hot spots in the early stage, it is possible to seize the profit opportunities in this round of plate deduction.

The criteria for dividing the stock sector can be roughly divided into two directions: industry and theme.

According to the industry, it can be divided into ten categories:

1, agriculture, forestry and fishery; 2. Mining and quarrying; 3. manufacturing industry; 4. Electricity, gas and water supply industries; 5. Construction industry; 6. Wholesale and retail, restaurants and hotels; 7. Transportation, warehousing, post and telecommunications; 8. Finance, real estate, insurance and commercial services; 9, social groups, social and personal services; 10, other activities that cannot be classified.

In fact, there are many ways to classify by industry, but they are basically the same. They all put the same enterprises together. For example, Allegro medicine is the category of medicine, and there are sub-plates under one plate, called sub-plates.

It can also be divided according to the concept of theme. The so-called theme concept is that when something happens for a period of time, the hot money and bookmakers of related enterprises will come out to use the topic and trigger the public to follow suit, thus forming a series of plates.