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52 Week Low is the lowest price at which a particular stock has traded in the last one year. Traders and investors look at this price to help understand the...
52 Week High is the highest price at which a particular stock has traded in the last one year. Traders and investors look at this price to help understand the...
Elliott Wave Theory, or ABC wave theory, is a term for three-wave counter trend price movement. Here, wave A is the first price wave that is against the trend of...
An Abridged Prospectus is a memorandum provided in Section 2(1) of the Companies Act, 2013. It includes all the significant features of a prospectus, specified by the Securities and Exchange...
An Acceptance Credit is a documentary credit that needs provision of a term for the bill of exchange. Usually, the bill is then accepted by the bank on which it...
Accrued expenses are those expenses which are listed on the income statement but are unpaid. Accrued expenses are the liabilities that the company needs to resolve at some future date....
The accrued interest is the interest earned on a bond or loan that has not yet been paid to the lender by the borrower. Points to remember: The accrued interest...
The ratio of a company’s current assets to its current liabilities is known as the acid test ratio. It is a measure of the company’s ability to stay liquid during...
Trying to predict future prices of an item, based on a dynamic weighting of the item’s prices in the past, is referred to as an adaptive filter. Points to remember...
The Add on Method is an alternative method of paying interest after it is added onto the principal at maturity. In this method, the interest on the loan is calculated...
An add-on offering refers to the additional shares made available to the public by a publicly trading company. This is usually done to raise capital for already existing operations, expansion...
The adjusted futures price refers to the cash-equivalent of a futures contract that will be used to purchase an asset later on. Points to remember: The adjusted futures price takes into...
The Advance-Decline Line (AD Line) is a marker based on Net Advances, specified by the number of rising stocks minus the number of declining stocks. The Advance Decline Line measures...
This is an agreement between two parties, stating advance payments will be returned if the entity receiving these payments, does not deliver on its end of the agreement. This pertains...
An Adverse Excursion refers to a trade going in a direction opposite to the one desired by the trader, after she/he has executed it. For example, a drop after buying,...
After-hours trading is the timeframe after the market closes when a financial specialist can purchase and offer securities outside of traditional exchange hours. Pre-market trading, conversely, happens in the hours...
It can be defined as a buy or a sell order that needs to be executed completely or not at all. Partial execution of an order is not possible. Either...
The measure of an asset’s performance, relative to a benchmark or market index is known as Alpha Figure. Points to Remember: It takes into account the active returns on an...
In the trading analysis, an Anaume Pattern is a depletion design (signifying "gap filling") made out of five candles on the chart. It happens when the hole is filled in...
A person starts with a first estimation (anchor) and then makes incremental adjustments in view of extra data. These adjustments are typically inadequate, giving the underlying anchor a lot of...
The change in earnings for a company, between the most recent fiscal year and the preceding one is called the annual earnings change. Points to remember: This change is due...
In any given year, the expenses incurred to manage the funds by an Asset Management Company are called Annual Fund Operating Expenses. Points to Remember: The Asset Fund Operating Expenses...
The AGM is a compulsory annual gathering of a company’s shareholders in order to report and present that year’s important events, discuss the company’s strategies and plans for the upcoming...
The amount of profit made by the company from their net sales, expressed as a percentage is known as Annual Net Profit Margin. It is calculated over one fiscal year....
The change in sales between the recent fiscal year and the preceding year, expressed as a percentage, is known as the Annual Sales Change metric. Points to remember: The sales...
When a person buys security from one market at a certain price, and sells it in another market at a higher price, the process is known as Arbitrage Selling. Points...
It is the act of putting up securities for sale (or offering) by a seller. It is accompanied by an Ask Price. Points to remember: The basis of the stock...
The lowest price at which the seller is willing to sell the security is known as ask price. Also commonly known as buying price. Points to remember: The asking price...
The amount of the security that is available at the Asking Price is known as the Ask Size. In other words, the number of securities being put up for sale...
When funds are diversified based on risk assessment the process is termed as ‘Asset Allocation.’ The assets can be diversified into different categories like real estate, stocks, bonds, various sectors...
A fund that invests over a range of assets - such as stocks, bonds and others is called an Asset Allocation Fund. This is unlike a regular mutual fund, which...
Registered with SEBI, an Asset Management Company is one that handles all the assets within the mutual funds it manages, accepts investments from its customers and takes related decisions on...
Everything from money to securities to real estate that is owned by the company and adds to its bottom line, is known as assets. An asset could be tangible and...
The price of the last traded stock at the end of the day is known as ‘At the Close.' Points to remember: It is important as it provides information about...
When the strike price of the option is identical to the price of the stock, the situation is termed as ‘at the money.’ An option placed in an ‘at the...
An ‘at the open’ is a directive of selling or buying securities at the very beginning of the day when trading opens. Points to remember: If the open orders are...
An authorized capital or an authorized share capital is the maximum equity capital that a company is authorized to issue in order to allocate them to shareholders. Points to remember:...
When a small amount of money is directly deducted from your (investor’s) bank account and invested in a mutual fund of your choice, the entire process is called an Automatic...
Automatic reinvestment is an investment option in which the money earned from a fund’s dividends or capital gains is used again automatically to buy more units in the funds. Points...
Autoregression is the use of previous data in order to predict the future data. The prediction is done by taking the weighted sum of the previous values. Points to remember:...
The average number of securities traded per day over a specific period of time is known as the average daily volume. The average trading volume can increase or decrease according...
P/E stands for price/earnings. The average P/E ratio is the current price (market price) of a share divided by the earning per share. The P/E ratio is expressed as a...
When an investor buys more securities at a lower price than the initial investment, the move is called averaging down. It is done in order to reduce the average cost...
Average True Range (ATR) is a useful indicator and can be applied to stocks and indices. It is the measure of volatility of a price range. The ATR is a...
Algorithmic Trading is the process where a pre-programmed trading instruction is fed into the computer program in order to execute an automated trade. Specific instructions can be assigned for variables...
An annual report of a company is an exhaustive report of a company's activities that took place during the previous year. Usually, shareholders look at annual reports in order to...
A marketplace instrument where potential buyers bid on a particular product, assets and/or services. The person who places the highest bid purchases the item on auction. Historically, auctions were a...
It is the buying and selling of securities in different markets at the same time so as to make a profit by taking an advantage of differing prices of the...
"The Accumulation Distribution Line (ADL) is an indicator that looks at supply and demand by deducing whether investors are generally buying (accumulating), or selling (distributing) a certain stock. This is...
When an investor exits or sells a mutual fund, they need to pay a certain amount of commission or fee which is called as Back End Load. This is also...
Back months refer to the available futures contracts for a commodity that has expiration farthest into the future. Points to remember: The liquidity of a back month futures contract constantly...
Backtesting is a technique to test the trading strategy on historical data which is relevant in order to ensure its viability. It is also known as “interpreting the past.” If...
Balance sheet is a financial statement that represents the company’s assets and liabilities as of a specific date. The difference between these two is termed as a company’s net worth....
A mutual fund that invests in and generates its return from a combination of equity and debt assets is known as a balanced mutual fund. It is geared primarily towards...
It is the period when a stock shows minimum downward or upward movement. In other words, the stock trades in sideways, which forms signature patterns like cup with a handle....
Basis refers to the difference between the futures price and the current cash price of the same commodity. Points to remember: In case of a futures market, basis is the...
Allotment is the process of allocating shares to shareholders, based on prior agreements, most commonly seen in an IPO. This allotment of shares is based on conditions which must be...
In Best Efforts Underwriting, the underwriters try their best to sell all the securities, but they are in no way obligated to purchase them. Points to remember: If demand from...
Any market risk associated with any kind of security is measured in terms of Beta. Also known as beta coefficient, it is the ratio of historical returns of an individual...
Block trade, as the name suggests, is an exchange of a fixed number of securities at an agreed price between two parties. The number of securities to be traded is...
A mutual fund that invests in blue chip stocks (a large established company with a proven track record of returns), is called as Bluechip fund. Points to Remember: Bluechip stocks...
Also known as Clearing Corporation, the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation acts as a guarantor for all the trades cleared and settles all the trades made at the Chicago Board...
Book building is a price discovery method in which the company issuing the shares doesn’t fix a specified price of the shares issued. Instead, it provides an indicative price range...
The electronically recorded securities that contain the creditor’s name, tax identification number and the amount are called book-entry securities. Points to remember: No paper certificates are issued for the proof...
Book Running Lead Manager (BRLM) plays an important role in the complete procedure of an Initial Public Offering (IPO). It is necessary to appoint a solid BRLM for a successful...
Within a certain time period, the book to bill ratio is the ratio of new orders of the company to the shipments. It is widely used in semiconductor industry. Points...
Orders that do not trade upon entry immediately are known as booked orders. Points to remember: They are also known as outstanding orders.
A company’s net after-tax profits are known as the bottom line. It gets its interesting name for the simple reason that it is mentioned at the bottom of the income...
A bought out deal is a process in which a company offers securities or shares to the public, through a sponsor. The sponsor can be a bank, any financial institution...
When a stock hits support (a price on the chart where it faces resistance to further dips) and then moves up sharply, the phenomenon is known as ‘Bounce’. It may...
When an investor locks an arbitrage profitable position that involves no risk, then it is known as box spread. Points to remember: It provides minimum amount of risk. A box...
Bullion is a common word for gold and silver, the jewels being 99.5% pure and in the form of bars or ingots. To create bullion, gold should be first extracted...
The Bureau of Indian Standards acts as hallmarking agency that certifies gold on the basis of Indian standards. Gold is tested and assessed at BIS centres and then certified as...
A butterfly spread combines bull and bear spreads in order to form a neutral options strategy. Points to remember: A butterfly spread makes use of four options contracts that have...
When a stock or security is acquired for long term regardless of market fluctuations, the act is known as ‘Buy and Hold’. Points to remember: Such investors are not concerned...
Buying forward is the purchase of commodities or securities at a specified price for delivery at a future date. When the price of the security or demand of a currency...
A broker is a person/organization who helps people purchases and sells goods and/or assets.
A bracket order is a way in which a trader can limit her/his loss. A trader can "bracket" an order and set two orders on the opposite ends i.e. she/he...
The Bombay Stock Exchange was started in 1875. It was called the "Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association" back then. It has about 6,000 companies and has developed India's capital...
Brokerage is the amount that a broker charges for purchasing and selling goods and assets for others.
Balanced Funds are usually set up for those investors who look for a blend of safety, sizeable income and modest capital appreciation. The amount in these kinds of funds should...
An option that gives the buyer the right to, but not the obligation to, buy underlying futures contracts at the strike price before the expiry is called a Call Option....
The company issuing shares can cancel the offering for another form of financing, when an IPO process faces difficulties in getting investors to raise the required capital for it. Points...
To an economist, capital refers to machinery, inventory and factories required to produce products. But, for an investor, capital can refer to their handheld cash and the financial assets which...
The profit or loss that results through the sale of certain assets is classified as a capital gain or loss. It encompasses stocks and other investments - like investment property....
A rise in the market value of a mutual fund’s securities is known as the capital growth of the mutual fund. This is reflected in its net asset value (NAV)...
An option which has an established profit cap is known as a capped style option. These are also known as Protected Options. Points to remember: A capped style option protects...
Also known as the cost of carrying, it is the cost of storing a physical commodity over a definite period of time. These include insurance, storage costs and interest charges...
Cash commodity is an actual commodity - like soybean, corn, silver which is bought or sold by a person, in contrast to digital commodities like shares. Points to remember: In...
A cash contract is an agreement for immediate or future delivery of the commodity. Points to remember: A cash contract has a direct connection between the seller and the buyer....
Cheapest to deliver is a method used to determine the cash debt instrument that will produce the maximum profit against a futures contract. Points to remember: It is important for...
A clearinghouse is an agency responsible for reporting the trading data, settling trading accounts, regulating delivery and clearing trades. Points to remember: A clearinghouse is a third party, in all...
A co-manager is an underwriter in a stock offering, but not a part of the Lead Managers. They deal with a particular niche of investors in an IPO process and...
Commodity Actuals are a physical commodity that highlight a futures contract or traded in the physical market. Points to remember: It is traded in a physical market or the futures...
Commodity exchange is a legal body that regulates and imposes rules and procedures for the trading standardized commodity contracts and related investment products. It also refers to the physical centre...
The commodity-product spread is the difference between the price of a raw material commodity and price of a finished product created from that commodity. A common commodity-product spread is the...
A commodity trading advisor is a firm or an individual that advises others on buying and selling of the options and some foreign exchange contracts. Points to remember: The role...
A bank or company that holds the mutual funds’ assets in order to reduce risk is known as a custodian. Points to remember: A custodian holds the securities in either...
Trading in international currencies is a global market where about $1.9 trillion is circulated in a day. It is one of the largest financial markets in the whole world. MNCs,...
In a marketplace, an order placed with a Stop Loss Order is called as Cover Order. In a cover order both the buy/sell orders are placed with a mandatory Stop...
It is the official legal record of a transaction that is carried out on a stock exchange through a stock broker. The trader gets the contract note at the end...
Raw materials and bulk goods such as metals, livestock, oil, grains, cotton, cocoa, sugar etc which are used to manufacture consumer products that can be easily used by the average...
A Circuit Breaker or a collar is a measure that is set in order to stop panic selling after either a security or an index has fallen drastically by a...
Market variables such as stock prices, market averages, commodity prices, trading volume, interest rates etc. are mathematically plotted on a graph in order to spot trends and also predict future...
Cash Market is a public marketplace where transactions of financial instruments such as securities or commodities are immediately settled. Cash Market is the opposite of a futures market wherein the...
A debt fund is a type of mutual fund wherein the invested amount is distributed across securities that are likely to yield you a fixed income. Points to Remember: Debt...
The day in the month that commodities on a futures contract have to be delivered is called the Delivery date. Every forward and futures contract contains a delivery date on...
It is a notice of a clearing member’s intention to deliver a stated quantity of a commodity in settlement of a short futures option. The holder in a futures contract...
Delivery points are the locations where the commodities will be delivered to the buyer. It can be a warehouse where commodities are stored or an exchange facilitated delivery point. Points...
When a specific category is offered shares at a price different than the other categories, the act is called as differential pricing. According to the DIP (Disclosure and Investor Protection)...
When securities are offered direct to the public, without any aid from an investment banking firm, the company is said to be doing a Direct Public Offering (DPO). The companies...
The earnings from a mutual fund are available in different ways. One of them is a dividend plan. In a dividend plan, the investor receives a fixed dividend (or payout...
Dividend stripping is when the investment is made with the thought of exiting the fund as soon as the dividend is received. Dividend stripping is usually a strategy used by...
As the name suggests, it is the draft of the offer document for an IPO (Initial Public Offering). It is the first ever document submitted by the company to SEBI...
Discount brokers are those brokerage firms who charge a reduced fee/commission for helping investors purchase and sell on the stock markets. Such discount brokers like Upstox utilize the best of...
Derivatives market is the financial market for derivatives which are a group of products including futures and options whose value is derived from and/or is dependent on the value of...
A derivative is not a stand-alone financial product. Its value is dependent or it derives its value from another variable asset.
A Depository Participant is an agent or representative of a depository. A depository can be literally translated as a place where valuables are stored for safety purposes. However, in the...
Shares and securities are held in a special account called "Demat" which basically means that these shares and securities are held electronically in a "dematerialized" account. This account is a...
A debenture is a debt instrument which is an insecure instrument i.e. it is not backed by a physical assets or collateral. Debentures are secure only because of the issuer's...
Derivatives are those instruments that are dependent on another security for its value. There are several underlying assets based on which traders can purchase and sell in the derivatives market....
Delivery is the final step of finalization of a purchase or sale of a financial investment instrument. Just like the purchase and sale of any other product in a marketplace,...
Demat is short for "dematerialization" (DEMAT). It is the move from physical certificates to an electronic version of keeping a record of all the shares an investor owns. With the...
Equilibrium is the state when the supply and demand of the market balance one another. As a result, prices remain stable. The equilibrium price is the market price where the...
The options on shares which belong to an individual’s common stock are said to be equity options. These options are known to be the most common type of equity derivative....
Whenever an investor makes an exit from a mutual fund within a duration as set by the mutual fund scheme, they may need to pay a charge known as the...
The external factors that affect the share performance of the company, (which need to be mentioned in the offer document when going public), are called external risk factors. These factors...
Equity Trading is the purchasing and selling of company stock shares. In publicly traded companies or IPOs, shares are bought and sold through stock exchanges such as the BSE or...
When speaking of the financial markets, equity is a stock or any other security that is owned by a person. Equity is the share of the stakeholder in a company's...
It is the copy of a prospectus with the documents which is submitted to the Registrar of Companies (ROC). Points to remember: Filing is a mandatory step which needs to...
A part of the total money the company raises in the market is fixed for the promoters to avoid dilution of their stakes. This is termed as Firm Allotment. Points...
The process of buying the IPO at the offering price and selling it off as soon as trading starts in the open market is termed as flipping. It is a...
If an already listed company issues fresh securities to the public or makes an offer for sale, then it is known as Follow on Public Offering (FPO). In such a...
The fixed price at which a specified amount of a commodity is to be delivered on a fixed date in the future. The price is fixed by the long buyer...
Forward Market Commission is the Regulatory Authority in India for commodity futures trading. FMC is headquartered in Mumbai. Just like SEBI regulates Stock market, FMC regulates commodities futures market. They...
A CBOT full membership is the membership of Chicago Board of Trading that provides the individuals with the right to trade in all the futures and options listed under it....
Futexagri is an equal- weighted index of commodities traded on NCDEX based in the price of near month future contract. Weighted index is found out by assigning weights to the...
A person or firm involved in accepting and handling the buying and selling of futures contracts is known as futures commission merchant. Points to remember: A futures commission merchant is...
A Futures exchange refers to the market place where the exchange of futures contracts, futures and options, and other such future trading takes place. Points to remember: The exchange allows...
A futures contract is a legal agreement based on future exchanges, that is, buying and selling of a financial instrument in both equity and commodity at a fixed price in...
Futures are contracts for assets such as commodities or shares bought at predetermined prices. However, the final delivery and actual payment for futures contracts is done later. That's why in...
People can trade in the futures exchange or futures market where people can trade futures contracts which are contracts to purchase a certain volume of a particular commodity or securities...
Gilt funds are a kind of security with minimal risk involved and are issued by India’s central government. Gilt funds originated from the British investment model. In most cases, they...
GIM stands for Government Instrument Market. The CBOT, or the Chicago Board of Trade, provides for a membership to merchants. Points to remember: The GIM membership provides merchants with the...
Global funds are a kind of mutual fund which invest in stocks throughout the world. Being a global fund, it filters the most apt and best investment plans from a...
GLOBEX® is a global after-hours electronic trading system. It provides a platform for derivatives, futures and commodity contracts. Points to remember: Globex operates at all times and is not constrained...
When a privately held company offers shares to the public for the first time through Initial Public Offering (IPO), the act of becoming an IPO is called ‘going public.' Points...
Technically known as an over-allotment option, a green shoe is a part of underwriting agreement, through which the issuer can distribute additional shares. The additional amount is typically 15%. The...
Gross domestic product is the best way to measure a country's economy. GDP is the total value of everything produced by all the people and companies in the country. GDP...
Gross national product (GNP) is a reckoned figure of total value of all the final products and services transpired over a given period, by the means of production owned by...
A growth plan is a variant of mutual fund schemes. As the name suggests, it is a kind of mutual fund with the objective of long term capital growth. The...
Gamma is the rate of change of delta of an option, in response to changes in the prices of an underlying asset. It gives us a significant evaluation of convexity...
When an underwriter buys his/her commitment at the earliest stage, then it is known as hard underwriting. Points to remember: If the shares are not bought by investors then the...
A hedge fund is a kind of fund that pools the capital of investors and then invests them in a variety of schemes. Retail investors cannot invest in hedge funds....
A Holding Company is the company that has the voting control over another company, because it owns the necessary amount of shares of that particular company. Points to remember: A...
The time for which an investor holds on to a security is known as the holding period. The period during which an investment is attributable to a particular investor is...
An investor might have a vast portfolio--the contents of which are known as holdings. All securities are typically ranked according to the ratio of the portfolio they occupy. This arrangement...
Indian Council for Agricultural Research, is an autonomous body that coordinates agricultural education and research in India. It is the hub of agricultural research institutes in the world, presided over...
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited is a large scale fertiliser cooperative federation based in India. The IFFCO is responsible for the production and sale of tonnes of fertiliser material, every...
The performance of the stock market can be estimated by taking into account the performance of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments contained within the marketplace. These statistical tools that...
When a private company stock is offered to the public for the first time, the offer is said to be an Initial Public offering (IPO). Initial Public Offers are usually...
International Securities Identification Numbering (ISIN) system, uniquely identifies a security. The ISIN is an international standard formed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), for the purpose of numbering specific...
The price at which new security is issued and is to be distributed among a set of people prior to the new issue trading is called the Issue Price. Points...
The entity that issues or distributes securities is known as the Issuer. The issuer could be anyone, a company, government or municipality. The issuers are legally responsible for all kinds...
Intraday Trading is the system of trading where one has to square-off the trade within the same day i.e. a trader has to buy and sell or sell and buy...
A Lead Underwriter is in charge of organizing the distribution of member participation shares, syndicate and making stabilized transactions. The name of the lead underwriter is mentioned on the left...
Listing majorly indicates the shares of a company that is on the stock list. It should be a company that has officially been traded on a stock exchange. On a...
The date when a newly recorded security is up for sale is called the effective sale. In other words, it the date on which the shares will be traded for...
In case of IPOs, the lock-in period refers to the duration wherein those with prior information about the impending IPO or the offer document are not allowed to bid or...
A limit order is an order where the trader defines the price at which the order should be executed. The opposite of a limit order is a market order.
Minimum subscription refers to the minimum number of shares that a company needs to get out of the entire issue by the date of closure. Currently, every company is required...
Maharashtra State Co-operative Cotton Growers Marketing Federation is one of the world’s largest suppliers of cotton. It produces over 3.5 million bales of cotton, and has exports exceeding USD 400...
Minimum Support Prices (MSP), is an initiative of the Government of India to protect producers against any steep fall in prices of agricultural products. The minimum support prices are announced...
Any firm or an individual who facilitates buying and selling of units within a mutual fund between an AMC (Asset Management Company) and interested investors, is categorised as a mutual...
A market order is an order where the trade will be executed at the current prevailing market price. The opposite of a market order is a limit order.
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in India is a financial institution which deals with matters pertaining to policy, planning and operations in the fields of agriculture and...
National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India limited was established with the aim of promoting cooperative marketing of agricultural produce, for the benefit of farmers. Further objectives include organising, processing...
National Securities Depository Limited is an Indian central securities depository, based in Mumbai. It was the first electronic securities depository in India that was established on November 8, 1996. NSDL...
National Board of Trade; an Indore based national multi-commodity exchange. Being a major futures market for edible oils, NBOT is making attempts to become a national commodity exchange; thereafter qualifying...
National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange of India (NCDEX) is a demutualised online commodity exchange that is promoted by various bodies such as ICICI Bank, Canara Bank, NABARD, IFFCO, CRISIL, and...
The capital that is issued after allotting it to the promoters, which would majorly be raised from the public is known as Net offer.
New Issue refers to a security that is issued, registered, and sold in a market for the first time. It doesn’t necessarily refer to the newly issued stocks, although the...
NSE is the abbriviation for the National Stock exchange of India. The NSE is a leading stock exchange in India established in 1952 located in Mumbai.
The S&P CNX Nifty or what is also commonly known as NSE Nifty or Nifty fifty is an Indian stock index. This is basically an average of 50 indian stocks....
It is the act of putting up securities for sale (or offering) by a seller. It is accompanied by an Ask Price. Points to remember: The basis of the stock...
The date on which the securities are first made available to the public is known as the offer date. Points to remember: The offer date is decided under the underwriting...
The prospectus that consists information regarding the public issue or offer for sale and in case of a rights issue, it is the letter of offer, which is filed with...
Options are versatile securities which are financial derivatives. Options are a contract between the one who holds the security and the one who writes up the contract. It is a...
Transfer of shares is when the title of a share is transferred from one person to another. The company whose shares are being transferred from one person to another should...
A brokerage firm or a traditional broker is an institute which enables the purchasing and selling of securities in the financial marketplace between a buyer and seller. A traditional broker...
A trading strategy is a plan that is put into action in order to get profits by either trading in the direction of the market or against the market. Trading...
A trading platform in terms of finance is a computer software through which you as an investor or a trader can open, close and manage your positions in the market....
A security that loses value during the course of a single trading day is called a loser. A loser is a secutiry with a high price at the open or...
A security that gains price or increases in price during the course of a single trading day is called a gainer. A gainer is a security that has a higher...
Trading indicators or Market Indicators are a group of technical indicators that traders use in order to predict the direction that financial indexes might take. Most technical analysis indicators are...
Just like a traditional bank account holds your salary and savings, a trading account holds cash and securities that is usually held at a financial institute such as a broker....
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