1.Buy – Means to buys shares or take position in a company.
2.Sell – Getting rid of the shares as you have achieved your goal or want to cut down losses.
3.Ask – Ask is what people who are looking to sell their stocks are looking to get for their shares.
4.Bid – Bid is what you are willing to pay for a stock.
5.Ask-Bid Spread– Spread is the difference between what people want to spend and what people want to get.
6.Bull – A bull market is a market condition where investors are expecting prices to rise.
7.Bear – A bear market is a market condition where investors are expecting prices to fall.
8.Limit Order – A limit order is a type of order which executes at the price placed for buy or sell.
9.Market Order – A market order is a type of order which executes as quickly as possible at the market price.
10.Day Order – A day order is a direction to a broker to execute a trade at a specific price that expires at the end of the trading day if it is not complicated.
11.Volatility – Means how fast a stock moves up or down.
12.Going Long – Betting on the stock price will increase so that you can buy low and sell high.
13.Averaging Down – This is when an investor buys as the stock goes down so as to increase the price at which purchased.
14.Capitalization – This is what the market thinks a company’s value is.
15.Float – This is the number of shares which can be actually traded after deducting the shares held by insiders.
16.Authorized Shares – This is the total number of shares that a company can trade.
17.IPO – It is an Initial Public Offering that happens when the private company becomes a publicly traded company.
18.Secondary Offering – This is another offering in order to sell more stocks and to raise more money form the public.
19.Dividend – Portion of the company’s earning which is paid to the shareholders.
20.Broker – A broker is a person who buy or sell stocks on your behalf.
21.Exchange – An exchange is a place where different types of investment are traded.
22.Portfolio – A collection of investments owned by you.
23.Margin – Margin account lets a person to borrow money from the broker to buy shares.
24.Sector – A group of stocks in the same sector.
25.Stock Symbol – A one to three character alphabet root symbol which represents a company listed on the exchange.
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