"Trading Lingo" To Watch Asap
"Trading Lingo" To Watch Asap
"Trading Lingo" To Watch Asap
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Annual Report
Beta
A person who buys or sells an investment for you in exchange for a fee (a
commission).
Back Testing
Bear Market
Bull Market
Block Trade
Blue Chip
An established company with a national or international reputation for
stability, profitability, and value.
Chart Analysis
Choppy Market
A market where price is moving rapidly up and down without any real trend.
Commission
GDP
Dax
The DAX is Germany’s blue-chip index, the most cyclical of the major
western indices, with almost 80% of it comprised of economically sensitive
industries.
Dividend
A payment made out of the company’s profits to its shareholders.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The leading stock market index in the U.S. that averages the value of 30
component stocks (blue chip stocks).
Day trading
Buying and selling of a stock on the same day before the market closes.
Exchange
Earnings yield
The earnings yield is a firm’s earnings per share for the most recent 12
months divided by the share price.
EBITDA
Fundamental Analysis
Examining the financial health and strength of a company to determine its
share price, future value, and earnings expectations.
Futures
A future is a tradeable contract that commits you to taking delivery (if you
buy), or making delivery (if you sell), of an agreed amount of something at
an agreed time.
Fiscal Policy
Fiscal policy includes any measure that the national government takes to
influence the economy by budgetary means.
Hedge
Limiting your losses or reducing risk by placing orders to cover two or more
possible events in the market.
Index funds (also known as passive funds or “trackers”) aim to track the
performance of a particular index, such as the FTSE 100 or S&P 500.
Liquidity
Being able to sell or buy shares in a stock without the transaction seriously
affecting the stock’s price; also refers to how easy it is to buy or sell shares.
Net Change
The difference between the previous closing price and the last traded price.
Paper Trade
When a trade does not trade with real but fake money.
SEC term for traders who trade (buy and sell) more than 4 times a day in
any given stock over a period of 5 days and for whom the same-day trades
makes up of more than 6% of their activity for that period.
Penny Stock
The price-to-earnings ratio is the ratio for valuing a company that measures
its current share price relative to its per-share earnings (EPS).
Quote
The bid, ask, and last price for a stock at a given point during the trading
day.
S&P 500
The S&P 500, or just the S&P, is a stock market index that measures the
stock performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the
United States
Technical Analysis
Examining a stock’s price through the use of metrics, indicators, past data,
and other techniques to identify trends
Volatility
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