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| Market Capitalization | The number of outstanding shares multiplied by the value per share. ... |
| Index | A group of assets (often in a similar class of sector or market capitalization) which can be traded as a single security. ... |
| Common Stock Ratio | The percentage that common stockholders' equity reduced by intangible assets bears to total tangible capitalization (the sum of shareholders' equity and long-term debt reduced by ... |
| Bulletin Board Shell | A blank check or shell company whose securities trade on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. ... |
| Whipsaw | Generally a sideways market ("trading market" as opposed to "trending market") with high volatility in which prices move with you for a short time, then ... |
| Bull Market | A rising stock market over a prolonged period, usually lasting at least six months and normally not more than 18 months. Any market in which ... |
| 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 ... |
| Market Order | An order to buy or sell securities at the price given at the time the order reaches the market. Buy or sell at the best ... |
| Stop Market | This type of stop loss order is known by various names, such as "stop," "stop loss," and "stop market." This is an order that says ... |
| Buyers Market | A market in which the supply exceeds the demand, creating lower prices. ... |
| Depressed Market | Market in which supply overwhelms demand, leading to weak and lower prices. ... |
| Beta | A means of measuring the volatility of a security or portfolio of securities in comparison with the market as a whole. ... |
| Domestic Market | A nation’s internal market for issuing and trading securities of entities domiciled within that nation. ... |
| Trailing Stop | Trailing stops are designed to follow the market price of a stock by a percentage amount or fixed dollar amount. The higher the market price ... |
| Variation Margin | Funds a broker must request from the client to have the required margin deposited. The term usually refers to additional funds that must be deposited ... |
| Market Surveillance | The department responsible for investigating and preventing abusive, manipulative, or illegal trading practices on The NASDAQ Stock Market. Considerable resources are devoted to surveilling The ... |
| Fast Market | A market is fast when it is hit with a large volume of orders over a short period of time. ... |
| Capitulation | When investors en masse have completely given up hope on an investment or market. Capitulation often occurs on heavy, panic type selling, and is followed ... |
| Market if Touched | Market if Touched (MIT) order - An order that becomes a market order if the price specified is reached. ... |
| Mark to Market | Process of reevaluating all open positions with the current market prices. The daily adjustment of margin accounts to reflect profits and losses in such a ... |
| Contrarian Investing | A strategy involving making decisions contrary to the prevalent opinion, due to an observation that in the market, the majority is wrong more often than ... |
| Out of the Money | Refers to an options contract that has no intrinsic value; for instance, a call option whose exercise price is above the current market price of ... |
| Time value | The amount by which the current market price of an option exceeds its intrinsic value. The intrinsic value of a call is the amount by which ... |
| 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 Order | A stop order is an order to buy or sell a stock once the price of the stock reaches a specified price, known as the ... |
| Implied Volatility | The volatility computed using the actual market prices of an option contract and one of a number of pricing models. ... |
| Wash Trading | Entering into, or purporting to enter into, transactions to give the appearance that purchases and sales have been made, without incurring market risk or changing ... |
| Treasury Note | Treasury notes are issued in terms of 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10 years. T-notes, like T-bills, are sold at auction to institutions ... |
| Hedger | A trader who enters the market with the intent to protect a position in the underlying asset; an investor who uses the futures market to ... |
| Value Investing | Value investing is buying shares of a business as though you were buying the business itself. Value investors emphasize the intrinsic value of assets and ... |
| Under Water | A stock option for which the option's grant price is higher than the current market price for the underlying stock. ... |
| Buy Stop Order | An order to buy that is not to be executed until the market price rises to the stop price. Once the security breaks through that ... |
| Support | A price level at which a stock or market begins seeing increasing demand or buying interest. It serves as a floor to lower prices. ... |
| Property Dividends | A property dividend is a dividend paid in a form other than cash or the company's own stock. ... |
| 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, ... |
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