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| Back Spread | A back spread is essentially an inverted ratio spread.When constructing a back spread, you are selling an option closer to the underlying market or even ... |
| Backdoor Registration | A method by which a company's shares can become publicly tradable through a merger directly with a public shell, after which the private operating company ... |
| Backspread | A spread where more options (calls or puts) are bought than sold (the opposite of a Ratio Spread). ... |
| Balance Sheet | The balance sheet, also called statement of financial position, portrays the financial position of the public company by showing what the company owns and what ... |
| Bankrupt Shell | A public shell that has been created either through issuance of shares following a bankruptcy (these shares are publicly tradable under a provision of the ... |
| Bar Chart | A type of chart that consists of four significant points: the high and the low prices, which form the vertical bar; the opening price, which ... |
| Basis | In simple terms, your cost of the asset. ... |
| Bear | An investor who believes that a security or the market is falling or is expected to fall. ... |
| Bear Call Spread | A strategy in which a trader sells a lower strike call and buys a higher strike call to create a trade with limited profit and ... |
| Bear Market | A declining stock market over a prolonged period, usually lasting at least six months and normally not more than 18 months. Any market in which ... |
| Bear Momentum | When a momentum indicator is negative. In a two-line indicator, the fast line is below the slow line. A basic part of the high probability ... |
| Bear Put Spread | A strategy in which a trader sells a lower strike put and buys a higher strike put to create a trade with limited profit and ... |
| Bearish | Refers to the attitude of an investor as being pessimistic; a pessimistic outlook. ... |
| Bearish Reversal | When momentum changes from a bullish to a bearish trend. With two-line indicators, when the fast line crosses below the slow line. A momentum bearish ... |
| Best Efforts Offering | An IPO in which an investment bank will not guarantee any proceeds to the firm, but will instead make its best efforts to raise capital. ... |
| Beta | A means of measuring the volatility of a security or portfolio of securities in comparison with the market as a whole. ... |
| Bid | The bid is the highest price a prospective buyer is prepared to pay for a trading unit of a specified security. If there is a high ... |
| Bid-Asked Spread | The difference between bid and offer prices. The difference between what buyers are willing to pay and what sellers are asking for in terms of price. ... |
| Black Monday | Refers to October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 508 points after sharp drops the previous week. ... |
| Blank Check | As defined in SEC Rule 419, a development stage company with no business plan or whose business plan is to merge with or acquire an ... |
| Blind Pool | Term used by some in the industry to refer to a blank check which is raising or which has raised money. ... |
| Blow off Top | A large rise in price followed by a quick drop. Often accompanied with high volume. Usually a technical indicator for the end of a bullish ... |
| Blue Sky Laws | Securities laws and regulations in each of the fifty states, regulating the offering of securities in that state. In addition to the requirement to respect ... |
| Blue-Chip Company | Used in the context of general equities, a large and creditworthy company; a company renowned for the quality and wide acceptance of its products/services, and ... |
| Blue-Chip Stocks | Blue-chip stocks refer to companies with a long history of sustained earnings and dividend payments. These established companies have developed leadership positions in their respective ... |
| Bollinger Bands | Bollinger Bands are a type of envelope (or trading band) plotted at standard deviation levels above and below a moving average. Plus or minus two ... |
| Bond | A debt obligation issued by a government (i.e., Treasury bond) or corporation (i.e., corporate bond) that promises to pay its bondholders periodic interest at a ... |
| Bond trader | An individual who works for a firm and buys and sells bonds for clients. ... |
| Bonus issue | When the company gives to each stock holder, free of charge, a number of new stocks for each stock they already own. ... |
| Break even point | The price at which, if you exit your position, you will neither gain nor lose money on the trade. It is roughly your entry price ... |
| Breakaway Gap | A type of gap in trading in which the price range moves above or below the previously established trading range, including a space between a ... |
| Breakeven | The point where a position shows no profits and no losses. ... |
| Breakout | A movement by a stock or commodity above an established resistance zone or below an established support, or above an established previous top or below ... |
| Broker | An individual or firm that charges a fee or commission for executing buy and sell orders submitted by another individual or firm. ... |
| Broker-Dealer | A firm engaged in the business of effecting securities and other transactions for the accounts of others. They are required to be registered with the ... |
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