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- 1%/10 Net 30
- 144a
- 1913 Federal Reserve Act
- 1933 Securities Act
- 1934 Securities And Exchange Act
- 1979 Energy Crisis
- 2% Rule
- 200 Day, 50 Day Moving Averages
- 401(k) And Roth 401(k)
- 403(b) Plan
- 409a Valuation
- 52-Week High/Low
- 52-Week Range
- Above The Market
- Absolute Breadth Index - ABI
- Absolute Percentage Growth
- Absolute Return
- Absorbed
- Absorption Costing
- ABX Index
- Accelerated Share Repurchase - ASR
- Accepting Risk
- Accidental High Yielder
- Accommodation Line
- Accommodation Paper
- Accommodation Trading
- Accordion Feature
- Account Activity
- Accredited Investor
- Accrued Interest Adjustment
- Accumulated Dividend
- Accumulated Earnings And Profits
- Accumulated Income
- Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
- Accumulated Value
- Accumulating Shares
- Accumulation Area
- Accumulation Option
- Accumulation Phase
- Accumulation Unit
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Acting In Concert
- Active Income
- Active Retention
- Active Return
- Active Stocks
- Active Trading
- Activist Investor
- Actuals
- Adaptive Price Zone - APZ
- Add-On
- Adding To A Loser
- Addition Rule For Probabilities
- Adjustable Rate Preferred Stock
- Adjustable-Rate Preferred Stock - ARPS
- Adjusted Closing Price
- Adjusted Exercise Price
- Adjustment In Conversion Terms
- Admission Board
- Advance Block
- Advance Dividend
- Advance/Decline Line - Advance/Decline Index
- Advance/Decline Ratio
- Advisor Fee
- Advisory Engagement
- Advisory Management
- Affidavit Of Loss
- Affiliated Person
- Affiliated Person/ Investor
- Affirmative Obligation
- After-Tax Return
- After-Tax Return On Assets
- After-Tax Return On Sales
- Agency Broker
- Agency Cross
- Agency Cross Transaction
- Agency Security
- Agency Trade
- Aggregate Exercise Price
- Aggregate Function
- Aggregation
- All Cash, All Stock Offer
- All Or None - AON
- Allocation Notice
- Allotment
- Alpha
- Alpha Generator
- Alpha Risk
- Alphabet Rounds
- Alphabet Stock
- Alternative Asset
- Alternative Energy ETF
- Alternative Investment
- Analyst Expectation
- Analyst Sponsorship
- Angel Investor
- Ankle Biter
- Announcement Date
- Annual Equivalent Rate - AER
- Annual Return
- Annualized Total Return
- Anti-Dilution Covenants
- Anti-Dilution Provision
- Antidilutive
- Arbitrage
- Arbitrage Trading Program - ATP
- Arbitrageur
- Archipelago
- Articles Of Incorporation
- Articles Of Organization
- Articles Of Partnership
- Ask
- Ask Size
- Assessable Capital Stock
- Assessable Security
- Assessable Stock
- Asset
- Asset Acquisition Strategy
- Asset Substitution Problem
- Asset Swapped Convertible Option Transaction - ASCOT
- Asset Valuation
- Asset-Or-Nothing Call Option
- Asset-Or-Nothing Put Option
- Assets
- Assets Under Management
- Assimilation
- Asymmetric Volatility Phenomenon - AVP
- Asymmetrical Distribution
- At A Discount
- At A Premium
- At The Market
- At The Money
- At-Or-Better
- At-the-Close Order
- At-the-Money
- At-the-Opening Order
- Atlas Options
- Attornment
- Attribute Bias
- Attribute Sampling
- Auction Market
- Auction Market Preferred Stock (AMPS)
- Audit
- Audit Committee
- Audit Cycle
- Audit Department
- Audit Risk
- Audit Trail
- Auditability
- Auditing Evidence
- Authorized Investment
- Authorized Share Capital
- Authorized Stock
- Automated Clearing House - ACH
- Automated Confirmation Transaction Service - ACT
- Automatic Execution
- Automatic Exercise
- Automatic Reinvestment
- Automatic Reinvestment Plan
- Autoregressive
- Autotrading
- Available-For-Sale Security
- Average Cost Basis
- Average Daily Float
- Average Daily Trading Volume - ADTV
- Average Down
- Average Price Put
- Average Qualitative Opinion - AQO
- Average Rate Option - ARO
- Average Return
- Average Revenue Per Unit - ARPU
- Average Selling Price - ASP
- Average Up
- Axe
- B-Shares
- Back Fee
- Back Months
- Back Up The Truck
- Backing Away
- Bag Holder
- Bagel Land
- Basis Quote
- BAT Stocks
- Batch Trading
- Batting Average
- Bear Call Spread
- Bear Closing
- Bear Market
- Bear Position
- Bear Put Spread
- Bear Raid
- Bear Spread
- Bear Squeeze
- Bear Straddle
- Bear Tack
- Bear Trap
- Bearer Form
- Bearer Instrument
- Bearer Share
- Bearish Abandoned Baby
- Behavioral Theories Of Leadership
- Behaviorist
- Bellwether
- Bellwether Stock
- Benchmark
- Benefit Allocation Method
- Benjamin Graham
- Benjamin Method
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Bermuda Option
- Bermuda Swaption
- Bernoulli's Hypothesis
- Berry Ratio
- Best Bid
- Best Efforts
- Best Execution
- Best-Interest Contract Exemption (BICE)
- Best-Price Rule - Rule 14D-10
- Beta
- Beta Risk
- Bid
- Bid And Asked
- Bid Price
- Bid Size
- Bid Support
- Bid Tick
- Bid Wanted
- Bid Wanted In Competition - BWIC
- Bid Whacker
- Bid-Ask Spread
- Bid-to-Cover Ratio
- Bidder
- Bidding Ring
- Bidding Up - Securities
- Bidding War
- Big Blue
- Big Board
- Big Ticket Item
- Big Uglies
- Bitcoin
- Blank Check Company
- Blank Check Preferred Stock
- Blind Bid
- Block
- Block House
- Block Order
- Block Positioner
- Block Trade
- Block Trading Facility - BTF
- Blue Chip
- Blue Chip Indicator
- Blue Chip Stocks
- Blue Chip Swap
- Blue Month
- Blue Sky Laws
- Board Broker
- Board Broker System
- Borrow
- Bottom Fisher
- Bottom Fishing
- Bottom-Up Investing
- Breadth Indicator
- Breadth Of Market Theory
- Breadth Thrust Indicator
- Break Issue
- Breakdown
- Broad Tape
- Broad-Based Index
- Broad-Based Weighted Average
- Broad-Based Weighted Average Ratchet
- Broken Date
- Broker
- Broker Call Rate
- Broker Loan Rate
- Broker-Dealer
- Brokerage Company
- Brokerage Department
- Brokerage General Agent
- Brokerage Supervisor
- Brokerage Window
- Brokered Certificate Of Deposit
- Brokered Deposit
- Brokered Market
- Bubble
- Bubble Company
- Bubble Theory
- Bubblecovery
- Bulge
- Bull
- Bull Bond
- Bull Call Spread
- Bull CD
- Bull Flattener
- Bull Market
- Bull Position
- Bull Put Spread
- Bull Steepener
- Bull Trap
- Bull Vertical Spread
- Bulldog Market
- Bullet Dodging
- Bullet Trade
- Bunching
- Bunny Market
- Business Inventories
- Business Logic
- Business Model
- Business Segment Reporting
- Business Software & Services Industry ETF
- Business Starts Index
- Business Valuation
- Bust-Up Takeover
- Buy A Bounce
- Buy A Spread
- Buy And Hold
- Buy And Homework
- Buy And Sell Agreement
- Buy Limit Order
- Buy Side
- Buy Stop Order
- Buy-Write
- Buyback
- Buyback Deductible
- Buyback Ratio
- Buyer's Call
- Buying Forward
- Buying Hedge
- C-Shares
- Call
- Call Auction
- Call Date
- Call Deposit Account
- Call Market
- Call Money
- Call Money Rate
- Call On A Call
- Call On A Put
- Call Option
- Call Over
- Call Premium
- Call Price
- Call Privilege
- Call Protection
- Call Provision
- Call Ratio Backspread
- Call Risk
- Call Rule
- Call Swaption
- Call Warrant
- Callable
- Callable Bond
- Callable Common Stock
- Callable Preferred
- Callable Preferred Stock
- Callable Security
- Callable Swap
- CAPE Ratio
- Capital
- Capital Appreciation
- Capital Commitment
- Capital Dividend
- Capital Funding
- Capital Gains
- Capital Gains Distribution
- Capital Gains Yield
- Capital Guarantee Fund
- Capital Injection
- Capital Loss
- Capital Markets
- Capital Markets Group
- Capital Markets People
- Capital Stock
- Capital Stock Insurance Companies
- Capital Surplus
- Capitalization Change
- Capitalization Of Earnings
- Capitalization Table
- Capitalization-Weighted Index
- Capitalize
- Capitalized Cost
- Capitalized Cost Reduction
- Capitalized Interest
- Capitalized Lease
- Capitated Contract
- Capitation Payments
- Capped Index
- Capped Option
- Carrot Equity
- Cash Dividends
- Cash Equivalent
- Cash Flow
- Cash Liquidation Distribution
- Cash Return On Assets Ratio
- Cash Return On Capital Invested - CROCI
- Cash Return On Gross Investment - CROGI
- Cash Surrender Value
- Cash-And-Carry Trade
- Cash-and-Carry-Arbitrage
- Cash-And-Stock Dividend
- Cash-Based Option
- Certificated Stock
- Chandelier Bid
- Chasing The Market
- Cheap Stock
- China Concepts Stock
- Chinese Hedge
- Chinese Wall
- Choice Market
- Choppy Market
- Churn
- Churning
- CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey And South Africa)
- Class B Shares
- Clean Float
- Clean Shares
- Clean Your Skirts
- Clearing Broker
- Clearing Corporation
- Clearing Fee
- Clearing House
- Clearing House Automated Payments System - CHAPS
- Clearing House Funds
- Clearing House Interbank Payments System - CHIPS
- Clearinghouse
- Close
- Close Position
- Closed Indenture
- Closing
- Closing Bell
- Closing Cross
- Closing Price
- Closing Quote
- Closing Range
- Closing Tick
- Clowngrade
- Cluster Analysis
- Coattail Investing
- Collar
- Collar Agreement
- Collateral
- Collateral Trust Bonds
- Collateralized Bond Obligation - CBO
- Collateralized Debt Obligation - CDO
- Collateralized Loan Obligation - CLO
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligation
- COMEX
- Commissions
- Committed Capital
- Commodities
- Commodity Exchange Act
- Commodity Market
- Commodity Pairs
- Commodity Paper
- Commodity Pool
- Commodity Pool Operator - CPO
- Commodity Price Risk
- Commodity Research Bureau Index - CRB
- Commodity Selection Index - CSI
- Commodity Swap
- Common Shareholder
- Common Shares
- Common Stock
- Common Stock Equivalent
- Common Stock Fund
- Common Vs. Preferred Shares
- Complex Capital Structure
- Composite Cost Of Capital
- Conditional Listing Application - CLA
- Consolidated Tape
- Constant Dollar Plan
- Constituent
- Constructive Dividend
- Contingency Order
- Contingency Perspective
- Contingency Theories
- Continuous Trading
- Continuously Offered Longer-Term Securities - COLTS
- Contra Market
- Contract Month
- Contract Size
- Contract Unit
- Contributed Capital
- Control Stock
- Convergence
- Conversion Parity Price
- Conversion Premium
- Conversion Price
- Conversion Rights
- Convertible Bond
- Convertible Bond Arbitrage
- Convertible Currency
- Convertible Debenture
- Convertible Debt
- Convertible Preferred Stock
- Convertible Security
- Convertible Stock
- Convertible Subordinate Note
- Convertible Virtual Currency
- Convertibles
- Convexity
- Corner A Market
- Counter-Cyclical Stock
- Country Basket
- Country Exposure Lending Survey
- Country Limit
- Country Risk
- Country Risk Premium - CRP
- Coupon
- Covered Call
- Covered Combination
- Covered Options
- Covered Security
- Covered Stock (Coverage)
- Covered Straddle
- Covered Warrant
- Covered Writer
- Crack Spread
- Crack-Up Boom
- Crash
- Crash Of 1929
- Cross Trade
- Cross-Listing
- Crossed Market
- Crude Stockpiles
- Cumulative Preferred Stock
- Cumulative Voting
- Curb Trading
- Curbs In - Curbs Out
- Current Coupon
- Current Coupon Bond
- Current Market Value - CMV
- Current Price
- CUSIP Number
- Customer Statement
- Cyclical Stock
- Daily Average Revenue Trades - DARTs
- Dark Cloud Cover
- Dark Pool
- Dawn Raid
- Day-Count Convention
- De Jure Corporation
- Dead Cat Bounce
- Deal Slip
- Death By A Thousand Cuts
- Death Cross
- Death Knell Stocks
- Debt-to-GDP Ratio
- Declaration Date
- Deep Discount Broker
- Deep Market
- Defensive Stock
- Defensive Stocks
- Deferred Equity
- Defined Benefit Plans
- Defined Contribution Plans
- Definitive Securities
- Delayed Opening
- Delisting
- Delisting
- Delivery Vs. Payment
- Diagonal Spread
- Diagonal Spread
- Digested Security
- Dilution
- Direct Stock Purchase Plan (DSPP)
- Direct-Access Broker
- Directed Order
- Dirty Price
- Dirty Stock
- Discount House
- Discount Points
- Discount Rate
- Discrete Compounding
- Displaced Moving Average
- Display Book
- Distressed Securities
- Distribution Reinvestment
- Diversified Mutual Fund
- Dividend
- Dividend ETF
- Dividend Exclusion
- Dividend Frequency
- Dividend Growth Rate
- Dividend Imputation
- Dividend Irrelevance Theory
- Dividend Payout
- Dividend Payout Ratio
- Dividend Per Share - DPS
- Dividend Policy
- Dividend Rate
- Dividend Reinvestment Plan - DRIP
- Dividend Rollover Plan
- Dividend Yield
- Do Not Reduce
- Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Investing
- Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)
- Domestic Equity Funds
- Double Barreled
- Double Barreled
- Dow Theory
- Dry Powder
- Dumping
- Dutch Auction
- Dutch Auction
- Dynamic Asset Allocation
- Dynamic Updating
- Earnings Management
- Earnings Per Share (EPS)
- Earnings Power
- Easy-To-Borrow List
- Eating Stock
- EBIT/EV Multiple
- EBITA
- EBITDA - Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation And Amortization
- EBITDA Margin
- ECN Broker
- Effective Date
- Efficient Markets Theory
- Either-Way Market
- Entry Point
- Equalizing Dividend
- Equity
- Equity Capital Market - ECM
- Equity Capitalization
- Equity Derivative
- Equity Funds
- Equity Income
- Equity Income Fund
- Equity Kicker
- Equity Market
- Equity Market Capitalization
- Equity Participation
- Equity Risk Premium
- Equity Swap
- Equity Unit Investment Trust
- Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff
- Equity-Linked Security - ELKS
- Equivolume
- Error Term
- Euroequity
- Euromoney Country Risk
- Euronext
- Ex Coupon
- Ex Gratia Payment
- Exotic Option
- Fallen Angel
- Fast Market Rule
- Fast Tape
- Fifth-Letter Identifier
- Fight The Tape
- Final Dividend
- Final Prospectus
- Financial Adviser
- Financial Analysis
- Financing Entity
- First-Preferred Stock
- Flight To Liquidity
- Flight To Quality
- Flipping
- Floor
- Floor Limit
- Floor Trader
- Focus List
- Food Industry ETF
- Forward Guidance
- Forward Looking
- Forward Margin
- Forward Price To Earnings - Forward P/E
- Forward Split
- Franked Dividend
- Franked Investment Income
- Freedom Shares
- Front Running
- Fundamental Analysis
- Gain
- Generic Securities
- Genesis Block
- Global Registered Share
- Goldman Sachs Commodity Index - GSCI
- Good Delivery
- Graduated Security
- Granular Portfolio
- Graveyard Market
- Green Chip Stock
- Gross Coupon
- Gross Dividends
- Gross Yield
- Guaranteed Stock
- Half Stock
- Hard-Coded Stock
- Headline Earnings
- High Octane Stock
- Holdings
- Homemade Dividends
- Horizontal Equity
- Illiquid
- In Specie
- In The Tank
- In-the-Money
- Incidents Of Ownership
- Income Stock
- Insider Trading
- Insider Trading Act Of 1988
- Institutional Shares
- Interest Rate Options
- Interest Sensitive Stock
- Interested Shareholder
- Interlisted Stock
- International Organization Of Securities Commissions - IOSCO
- Investment
- Investment Company
- Investment Company Act Of 1940
- Investment Income
- Investment Income Ratio
- Investment Income Sharing
- Involuntary Conversion
- IRA (Individual Retirement Account)
- Issued Shares
- Issuer Identification Number (IIN)
- Junior Security
- Keystone XL Pipeline
- Large Cap
- Limit Order
- Liquidating Dividend
- Liquidating Market
- Liquidity
- Liquidity Preferences
- Listed Security
- Listed Stocks
- Listing Requirements
- Lockup Provision
- Long (or Long Position)
- Long-Term Capital Gain
- Mandatorily Redeemable Shares
- Margin Accounts
- Marginal Cost Of Funds
- Market Crash
- Market Maker
- Market Manipulation
- Market Order
- Market Risk
- Market Sentiment
- Market Valuation
- Marketable Security
- Microcap Fund
- Mid-Value Stock
- Morningstar Inc.
- Morningstar Risk Rating
- Morningstar Sustainability Rating
- Naked Option
- NASDAQ
- National Securities Markets Improvement Act - NSMIA
- Negative Equity
- Negative Float
- Negotiable Instrument
- Negotiated Underwriting
- Net Present Value
- Nifty Fifty
- Nikkei Stock Average
- Nil-Paid
- No-Par Value Stock
- NOK
- Nominee Dividend
- Non-Covered Security
- Non-Cumulative
- Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock
- Non-Diversified Funds
- Non-Marginable Securities
- Non-Marketable Security
- Not-Held Order
- Odd Lot Theory
- Offer
- One-Sided Market
- Opening Price
- Optimal Capital Structure
- Option Class
- Option Contract
- Optionable Stock
- Ordinary Dividends
- Ordinary Shares
- OTC Bulletin Board
- Out Of The Money
- Overbought
- Overhang
- Overhang
- Overhanging Supply
- Oversold
- Painting The Tape
- Paired Shares
- Pairs Trade
- Participating Convertible Preferred Share - PCP
- Patronage Dividend
- Payment-In-Kind Bonds
- Payout Ratio
- Penny Stock
- Penny Stock Reform Act
- Placement
- Plowback Ratio
- Pre-Emptive Rights
- Preemptive Right
- Preference Shares
- Preferred Dividend Coverage Ratio
- Preferred Equity Redemption Stock - PERC
- Preferred Redeemable Increased Dividend Equity Security - PRIDES
- Preferred Stock ETF
- Preferrred Shares
- Preliminary Prospectus
- Price-to-Earnings Ratio
- Primary Market
- Primary Offering
- Primary Shares
- Principal Trade
- Private Equity
- Proxy Contest
- Proxy Statement
- Proxy Vote
- Public Offering
- Public Offering Price
- Purple Chip Stock
- Put
- Put Option
- Qualified Plan
- Quarterly Income Preferred Securities - QUIPS
- Random Walk Theory
- Rate Of Return
- Ratio Analysis
- Real Asset
- Realized Gain
- Realized Loss
- Record Date
- Record High
- Regional Exchanges
- Registration Right
- Restricted Stock
- Restricted Stock Unit - RSU
- Reverse Split
- Reverse Stock Split
- Rights Of Accumulation - ROA
- Rights Offering
- Round Lot
- Running Yield
- Samurai Market
- Scripophily
- SEC Fee
- Second Market
- Secondary Offering
- Secondary Stock
- Securities
- Securities
- Securities Act Of 1933
- Securities Amendments Act Of 1975
- Securities And Exchange Commission - SEC
- Securities Exchange Act 1934
- Securitized
- Security
- Security Analyst
- Seed Stock
- Sell Stop
- Senior Security
- Share Certificate
- Share Class
- Share Price
- Share Repurchase
- Share Turnover
- Shareholder
- Shareholder Equity Ratio
- Shares
- Shares Outstanding
- Sharpe Ratio
- Short-Term Capital Gain
- Short-Term Capital Loss
- Shorting Stock
- Single-Digit Midget
- Sleeping Beauty
- Special Dividend
- Specialist
- Speculative Stock
- Speculator
- Spillover Dividend
- Spillover Effect
- Split Adjusted
- Sponsored ADR
- Statutory Voting
- Stock Appreciation Right - SAR
- Stock Based Compensation
- Stock Basher
- Stock Certificate
- Stock Compensation
- Stock Cycle
- Stock Dividend
- Stock Idea
- Stock Loan Rebate
- Stock Market
- Stock Market Crash
- Stock Market Crash
- Stock Market Crash Of 1929
- Stock Market Crash Of 1987
- Stock Option
- Stock Option Plan
- Stock Pick
- Stock Price
- Stock Quote
- Stock Rating
- Stock Record
- Stock Retire
- Stock Savings Plan
- Stock Screener
- Stock Split
- Stock Swap
- Stock Symbol (Tickers)
- Stock Trader
- Stock-For-Stock
- Stockalypse
- Stockbroker
- Stockholder
- Stop Limit Order
- Stop Loss
- Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act - STOCK Act
- Story Stock
- Street Expectation
- Street Name
- Surrender Rights
- Synthetic Dividend
- T Shares
- T+1 (T+2,T+3)
- Target Payout Ratio
- Tax-Free Spinoff
- Taxable Preferred Securities
- Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility - TALF
- Thinly Traded
- Ticker Symbol
- Ticker Tape
- Torpedo Stock
- Total Stock Fund
- Tracking Stock
- Trailing FCF
- Treasury Stock (Treasury Shares)
- Ugly Duckling Stock
- Uncovered Option
- Underlying Security
- Undigested Securities
- Unissued Stock
- Unlisted Security
- Unloved Stock
- Unpaid Dividend
- Unrealized Gain
- Unrealized Loss
- Unregistered Shares
- Unseasoned Security
- Unsystematic Risk
- Valuation Analysis
- Valuation Formats
- Valuation Ratios
- Value
- Value Investing
- Value Stocks
- Vertical Equity
- Volatility
- Voting Rights
- Waivers
- Whisper Number
- Widow-And-Orphan Stock
- World Federation Of Stock Exchanges
- Worthless Securities
- Wrap Fee
- Y-Share
- Yield
- Yield Advantage
- Yield Pickup
- Yo-Yo
- Z-Share
- Zero Cost Collar
- Zero Coupon Swap
- Zero-Dividend Preferred Stock
- Zombie ETF