<p>I can't seem to really distinguish them, other than the fact that mortgages are loans related to real estate, and bonds are loans that are broken up. I'm probably wrong about the bonds; but anyways, most definitions define them all practically the same, loaning money and paying back with some sort of interest.</p>
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<p>The main difference between bonds and loans is that bonds are highly tradeable, whereas loans are generally nontradeable agreements between a bank and its customer(s). A bond market exists for traders to buy and sell bonds (should they wish to trade it before the bond matures). Bonds are a stable and low-risk way to diversify and ensure a steady income for your stock portfolio. There are multiple types of bonds.</p>
<p>You need to make a loan to pay back a mortgage, so they aren’t exactly the same. They are payed back in the same fashion, in that a mortgage allows the customer to pay back over a period of time instead of on a single purchase, with additional interest.</p>
<p>well a bond (contrary to a loan) can be traded. you could sell it rather than wait for the end of the 30 year period. loans are not usually tradeable. you’re basically right about mortgages, their basically a loan but you have the security of a property to back it up.</p>
<p>How do you “trade” a bond? So say if I loaned 1 million dollars (a bond or w/e,) how much am I able to trade it, and why would you want to trade it?</p>
<p>Bonds are usually issued by governments, companies, banks, public utilities and other large entities. They are usually for investments whereas loans are more personal and go one-way from Person A to Person B. Bonds are traded through multiple networks between several people.</p>
<p>Unlike stocks, which are equity stakes and thus make you an owner, bonds are creditor stakes, which make you a lender. You loan money to a firm with the knowledge that they will pay you back in full when the bond matures, on top of additional interest (a coupon) which you hope will exceed inflation and thus yield you a profit. If you want to sell bonds, you hope that you sell it at a premium. </p>
<p>You would buy and sell a bond on the bond market through either bond dealers of an investment firm or among individuals. Usually, a syndicate of bankers will buy an issue of bonds from an issuer and re-sell it to investors in what is known as underwriting. Government bonds will be auctioned.</p>