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S-1 | The form for filing for an IPO. ... |
Sales Load | The sales fee that the buyer pays in order to acquire an asset. ... |
Scrip | Stock certificate that is evidence of ownership. ... |
Seat | Membership in a stock or futures exchange. ... |
SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission: A commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. It is composed of five commissioners appointed by the ... |
SEC Filings | As a general rule, the banker uses SEC filings to source historical financial information for comparable companies. This financial information is used to determine historical sales, ... |
Sector | Sector refers to the industry or markets in which a company operates (e.g., chemicals, consumer products, healthcare, industrials, and technology). A company's sector can be further ... |
Securities and Exchange Commission | (SEC) - Organization which regulates the US securities markets to protect investors. ... |
Security | An instrument which can be traded (for example, stocks, bonds, and so on). ... |
Sell Stop | Trade at the then best price, but ONLY IF a predetermined price level is met or exceeded. The order must first be triggered (or activated ... |
Sell Stop-Limit | This is a version of the Sell Stop. This order says, “Don’t sell the shares unless they trade at 60 or less, but I won’t ... |
Serial Bonds | The issue is bought back in stages, usually an annual installment. This is the way municipal bonds are retired—a lot of money is borrowed in ... |
Series | All option contracts of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. Option contracts of the same ... |
Settlement | In relation to stocks it is the arrangement between broking houses for the payment or receipt of cash or shares. ... |
Share | A unit of equity in a company. ... |
Share Split | Increasing a companies shares outstanding by splitting the par value of existing shares and distributing additional shares pro rata to share holders. ... |
Short | Selling an investment security in anticipation that the price will fall. ... |
Short Call | A bearish strategy that involves selling a call option to collect the premium. ... |
Short Put | A bullish strategy that involves selling a put option to collect the premium. ... |
Short Selling | A risky and speculative practice involving the sale of a stock that the seller doesn't possess. The seller is effectively betting that the price of ... |
Short Stock | Selling shares of stock in anticipation that the price will go down. ... |
Short Straddle | A short straddle is the simultaneous sale of a put and a call on the same stock, with the same expiration date and the same ... |
Skew | A descriptive measure of lopsidedness in a distribution. ... |
Slippage | The difference between estimated transaction costs and actual transaction costs. The difference is usually composed of price revisions or spread and commission costs. ... |
Small-Cap Stocks | Smaller (and sometimes newer) companies associated with high risk and high potential rewards. Can be illiquid to trade with large bid–ask spreads. ... |
Special Memorandum Account | (SMA) - A holding place for available cash, a double bookkeeping entry.It increases when:A client’s portfolio goes to a new “all-time” high. Essentially SMA will ... |
Speculative Stocks | Speculative stocks have the potential for above-average returns, but they also carry above-average risk of loss if the company does poorly or goes bankrupt.Speculative stocks ... |
Speculator | An investor or trader who is willing to take large risks for a chance to make large gains. ... |
Spread | The difference between the bid price and the ask price (buy price and sell price) ... |
Stochastic | A technical indicator, which is an oscillator based on the relationship of the open, high, low, close of price bars. ... |
Stock | A share of a company's stock translates into ownership of part of the company. Thus, when you own any shares of a company's stock, you ... |
Stock Split | A stock split is when there is an increase in the number of outstanding shares without an increase in the shareholder equity. ... |
Stop Alarm | A "Stop Alarm" is held by the broker as well. The difference is, if the stock should trigger an alarm price, the broker is directed to ... |
Stop Limit | This is an order that says once the stock's market price touches or goes below the stop limit order price, the stop limit order is ... |
Stop Loss | It is advisable to protect loss potential by entering an order that will "stop" the trade if the stock or option trades at a certain ... |
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