Vocab
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- broker
- the person who can order stocks to be bought or sold.
- stag
- an investor who buys and sells stock rapidly, usually to make profits quickly.
- bull
- an investor who buys stocks, and gambles on selling it at a higher price.
- fundamental analysis
- a method of stock analysis based on the management of the company and past stock movements.
- stop order
- an order to sell stocks if the price of the stock drops to a certain point.
- yo-yo stock
- a stock with a price that often rises and often drops rapidly.
- white knight
- a person or company that saves another company from an unwanted hostile takeover.
- closely held corporation
- a corporation that only allows a few people to invest in it, such as friends and relatives.
- close
- the final price of the stock at the end of the trading day.
- round lot
- an amount of sotcks that is the usual trading number, such as 100 on the NYSE.
- discount brokers
- a simple broker that only takes orders on buying and selling.
- income stocks
- stocks that have consistently paid high dividends.
- high
- the ighest price of the stock during the trading day
- low
- the lowest price of the stock during the trading day.
- proxy ballot
- a voting ballot that allows you to control what happens with the company you have stock in.
- home run
- a referal to an investors large gain in a short period.
- technical analysis
- an analysis of a stocks future based strictly on numbers, such as earnings, sales, and assets.
- shareholder
- a person who buys stock in a corporation, and therefore becomes a part-owner of the corporation.
- going public
- when a company puts their stock up for sale.
- stock certificate
- the actualy price of paper that is evidence of stock ownership, usually watermarked and patterned to make itself hard to forge.
- market trend
- the upward or downward movement of a market for six months or more.
- cylical stock
- a stock that tends to rise and fall with the economy.
- bull market
- a market where stock prices are rising, favoring a bull.
- Dow Jones Average
- a makret indicator that averages 65 stocks in 3 different categories to determine how the market as a whole is doing.
- commission
- the profit that a broker gets every time you buy or sell a stock through him or her.
- block trade
- a transaction invloving over 10,000 shares.
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- The formal name for going public.
- limit order to sell
- an order to sell stocks only if they can be sold at a certain price.
- tombstones
- the advertisements that are put out when a company goes public.
- bear market
- a market where stock prices are falling, favoring a bear.
- gross
- value before tax.
- stockbrokers
- a broker that in addition to taking orders, also offers advice on investing.
- NYSE
- The New York Stock Exchange.
- bear
- an investor who sells his stocks, and gambles on buying it back at a lower price.
- hot stock
- a stock whose price rises quickly the day it goes public.
- limit order
- an order that limits the price the broker can buy or sell at.
- SEC
- Securities and Exchange Commission.
- growth stocks
- stocks that pay low dividends, but are expected to grow.
- odd lot
- an amount of stocks that is not the usual trading number.
- Amex
- The american stock exchange, inc.
- portfolio
- a collection of stocks that in not the usual trading number.