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| Paper Trading | Simulating a trade without actually putting up the money, usually done for the purpose of gaining additional trading experience. ... |
| Par | The nominal value of a bond that is paid back to the bondholder at maturity. ... |
| Partial Fills | A partial fill occurs when a trader places an order for a certain number of shares, let’s say for 2,000 shares of stock, and instead ... |
| Payable Date | The date on which a declared stock dividend or a bond interest payment is scheduled to be paid. ... |
| Penny Stocks | Penny stocks are speculative, low-priced stocks that generally trade on the over-the-counter markets and pink sheets. [The pink sheets provide the listings, the quotes (bid ... |
| Performance Incentive | A performance incentive - where the advisor gets paid based on how well your investments perform (the more money you get, the more money the ... |
| Pip | The smallest unit of price for any foreign currency. ... |
| Pivot | When a market is rallying and today?s low is less than the low of the highest day in the rally, that high becomes a pivot, ... |
| Portfolio | A selection of stocks chosen according to the investors individual goals. ... |
| Position Delta | The sum of all positive and negative deltas within a hedged trade position. ... |
| Position Limits | Each stock is assigned a numerical limit based on its trading volume. The exam will give you the limit, i.e. 7,500 contracts. The idea is ... |
| Position Trader | Trades longer-term trends lasting from several days to several weeks. Trades for points, not for ticks. ... |
| Preferred Stock | A security that is a hybrid of a bond and stock. A preferred typically has a fixed amount it pays in dividends, but has a ... |
| Premium | The amount of cash that an option buyer pays to an option seller. ... |
| Premium Discount Brokers | A premium discount broker could be a firm like Fidelity or Charles Schwab. The commission rates are somewhere between the discount brokers and the full-service brokers. ... |
| Pretzel Chart | A price chart connecting the open, high, low, and close in such a fashion that it resembles a pretzel with two closed three-sided spaces connected ... |
| Price Bar | The visual representation of a securities price fluctuations for a set period of time. Price bars can be for as little as one minute (or ... |
| Price to Sales | Per dollar of shareholder value, how much business does this company generate? Price to sales (P/S) is a straightforward way to answer this question. Here's the ... |
| Price-Earnings Ratio | (P/E) Ratio: A tool for comparing the prices of different common stocks by assessing how much the market is willing to pay for a share ... |
| Principal | The purchase price of a bond. ... |
| Privileged information | Information that is not available to the public. ... |
| Producer Price Index | (PPI) - A family of indices that measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs ... |
| Property Dividends | A property dividend is a dividend paid in a form other than cash or the company's own stock. ... |
| Prospectus | A legal document issued by a company wanting to issue shares to the public (listing), outlining the history, operations and financial situation of the company. ... |
| Proxy Statement | A proxy statement is a document that a public company sends to its shareholders prior to a shareholder meeting containing material information regarding matters on ... |
| Put | An option contract that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified amount of an underlying security at a specified ... |
| Put Option | An option contract giving the owner the right to sell a specified amount of an underlying security at a specified price within a specified time. ... |
| Put-Call Ratio | A ratio of the trading volume of put options to call options. It is used to gauge investor sentiment. A high volume of puts compared ... |
| Pyramiding | Adding to a position as the market moves up or down. ... |
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