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| Daily Price Limit | The level at which many commodity, futures, and options markets are allowed to rise or fall in a day. ... |
| Day Order | When you place a Day Order you give your broker a price at which you are willing to buy or sell a stock or option ... |
| Day Trader | A very short-term trader who is usually glued to the monitor during market hours and enters and exits a trade during one trading day. The ... |
| Day Trading | Establishing and liquidating the same position or positions within one day’s trading. ... |
| Dealer | An individual or firm that acts as a principal or counterparty to a transaction. ... |
| Debit | The amount that is subtracted from a trader?s account when a trade involves the net purchase of options contracts. ... |
| Debit Spread | The difference in value of two options, where the value of the long position exceeds the value of the short position to create a net ... |
| Debt to Equity | This old standard is commonly used to get a feel for indebtedness, particularly in comparison with the rest of an industry. How to calculate debt to ... |
| Deep In the Money | (DITM) Calls: where the price of the underlying security is far greater than the call Strike price. Puts: where the price of the underlying security is far ... |
| Defensive Stocks | Defensive stocks are the stocks of companies that tend to hold their price levels when the economy declines.Generally, these stocks resist downturns in the economy ... |
| Deferred Charges | Deferred charges are expenditures for items that will benefit future periods beyond one year from the balance sheet date; for example, costs for introduction of ... |
| Definitive Agreement | The definitive agreement is a legally binding contract between a buyer and seller detailing the terms and conditions of the sale transaction. In an auction, the ... |
| Delayed Quote | A stock or bond quote that shows the bid and ask prices 15, sometimes 20 minutes after a trade takes place. ... |
| Delayed Time Quotes | Quotes which are delayed from real time. ... |
| Delta | The amount by which the price of an option changes for every dollar move in the underlying instrument. Delta measures the sensitivity of the option’s ... |
| Delta Hedge | A strategy designed to protect the investor against directional price changes in the underlying asset by engineering the overall position delta to zero. ... |
| Delta Neutral | Refers to an options position constructed so that the profitability of the position relies on the magnitude of the move - not the directional bias; ... |
| Depressed Market | Market in which supply overwhelms demand, leading to weak and lower prices. ... |
| Derivatives | Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is based on the market value of an underlying asset such as a stock, bond, or commodity. ... |
| Devaluation | The deliberate downward adjustment of a currency’s price, normally by official announcement. ... |
| Directional Trade | A trade that requires the underlying asset to move in one direction in order to produce profits. To make a profit, the trader must determine ... |
| Directionless | Refers to an investment that lacks direction and is not trending higher or lower. Certain options strategies work well when the underlying asset is not ... |
| Discount Broker | A brokerage house featuring relatively low commission rates in comparison to a full-service broker. A brokerage firm that offers lower commission rates than a full-service broker, ... |
| Divergence | A term used to describe a difference in the behavior of two instruments, or an instrument and an indicator based on that instrument. ... |
| Diversification | Spreading one's assets across a wide variety of investments within a portfolio to minimize the impact of any one security on overall portfolio performance and ... |
| Diversification Rule | Do not invest more than 30 percent of the total value of your portfolio in any one sector and no more than 20 percent of ... |
| Dividend | When companies pay part of their profits to shareholders, those payments are called dividends. A portion of a company’s profit paid to common and preferred ... |
| Domestic Market | A nation’s internal market for issuing and trading securities of entities domiciled within that nation. ... |
| Double Diagonals | Double diagonals are a favorite among professional index option traders.The double diagonal capitalizes perfectly on the moderate range of the index versus singular components by ... |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | (DOW) The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average consisting of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrial, including stocks traded on the ... |
| Downtick | A new price quote at a price lower than the preceding quote. A downward price movement in a particular stock. A trade occurring at a lower ... |
| Downturn | The transition point between a rising, expanding economy to a falling, contracting one. ... |
| Dual listing | The situation that arises when a security is registered for trading on more than one exchange. ... |
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