A single order to buy or sell a set of 15 or more securities. Basket trades are used by institutional investors or program traders to invest large amounts…

A method of transacting different security orders that involves the accumulation of orders and their simultaneous execution. For example, a security…

An investor who believes that a particular security or market is headed downward. Bears attempt to profit from a decline in prices. Bears are generally…

A certificate of deposit whose interest rate fluctuates in inverse correlation to the value of an underlying market index. In other words, the interest…

An offer made by one company to buy the shares of another for a much higher per-share price than what that company is worth. A bear hug offer is usually…

A market condition in which the prices of securities are falling, and widespread pessimism causes the negative sentiment to be self-sustaining. As investors…

The illegal practice of attempting to push the price of a stock lower by taking large short positions and spreading unfavorable rumors about the target…

A false signal that the rising trend of a stock or index has reversed when it has not. This can occur during a bear market reversal when short sellers…

An equity security that is wholly owned by whoever holds the physical stock certificate. The issuing firm neither registers the owner of the stock, nor…

A slang phrase used when an investor purchases or sells a security at a beneficial price by executing a trade before the market can respond to new information…

A leading indicator of trends. A bellwether stock is a stock that is used to gauge the performance of the market in general. General Motors was an example…

An order to buy or sell a security at a price lower than the current market price. Investors may choose to place a limit order to buy, a stop order to…

A standard against which the performance of a security, mutual fund or investment manager can be measured. Generally, broad market and market-segment…

A holding company for a multitude of businesses run by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and began…

The lowest quoted ask price for a particular stock among those offered from competing market makers. In layman's terms, this is the lowest price for…

The highest quoted bid for a particular stock among all those offered by competing market makers. Simply put, this is the highest price someone is willing…

1. An offer made by an investor, a trader or a dealer to buy a security. The bid will stipulate both the price at which the buyer is willing to purchase…

The number of shares a buyer is willing to purchase at the quoted bid price. For example, if the bid price is $20 and the bid size is 2000, that means…

An indication of whether the latest bid price is higher, lower, or the same as the previous bid.The direction of the bid tick is important to institutional…

The amount by which the ask price exceeds the bid. This is essentially the difference in price between the highest price that a buyer is willing to pay…

The day of deregulation for the securities market in London, England on October 27, 1986, in which the London Stock Exchange (LSE) became a private limited…

The strategy of manipulating a company's income statement to make poor results look even worse. The big bath is often implemented in a bad year to enhance…

A nickname for the New York Stock Exchange. Founded in 1792, the NYSE is the oldest exchange in the United States, on which more than 2,000 common and…

Old industrial companies in gritty industries (such as mining, steel and oil) and as a result, they tend to be unpopular stocks with investors. While…

One of Spain's four major securities exchanges. Founded July 1890 and opened for trading in 1891, the Bilbao Stock Exchange (in Spanish, the "Bolsa de…

When brokerage firms ensure anonymity to both the buyer and the seller in a transaction. In the ordinary course of securities trading, most brokerage…

A signficant order placed for sale or purchase of a large number of securities. Block orders are often used by institutional investors.Also known as a…

An order/trade submitted for sale or purchase of a large quantity of securities. Also known as "Block Order". In general, 10,000 shares of stock (not…

The difference between the market value of a security and its sale price when transacted under a block trade. Each blockage discount is negotiated by…

A record of trades and the details of the trades made over a period of time (usually one trading day). The details of a trade will include such things…

A term in technical analysis that refers to a sharp price increase that comes after a long period of price appreciation, and is followed by a fall in…

A nationally recognized, well-established and financially sound company. Blue chips generally sell high-quality, widely accepted products and services…

A trader who has another source of income, and does not trade as a means, but rather as a savings plan, or bonus, etc. This person typically does not…

Requests for information sent out by the Securities and Exchange Commission to market makers.Blue sheets provide the SEC with detailed information about…

Stock of a well-established and financially sound company that has demonstrated its ability to pay dividends in both good and bad times. These stocks…

A slang term used to describe a perfect stock or investment. In the 1979 hit movie "10", actress Bo Derek portrayed the "perfect woman", or "the perfect…

A standardized number of shares defined by a stock exchange as a trading unit. In most cases, this means 100 shares. The purpose of a board lot is to…

A place where high-pressure salespeople use banks of telephones to call lists of potential investors (known as a "sucker lists") in order to peddle speculative…

The first and largest securities market in India, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) was established in 1875 as the Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association…

An offer of free additional shares to existing shareholders. A company may decide to distribute further shares as an alternative to increasing the dividend…

A company's announcement of a dividend or bonus to investors. Only members listed in the company's registration at the cutoff date would be entitled…

A fully automated trading system created by the Boston Stock Exchange and five other financial conglomerates. The BEX offered a high-speed, low-cost alternative…

A market theory that states that a white Christmas in Boston will result in rising stock prices for the following year. For example, in Christmas of 1995…

Refers to a company's net earnings, net income or earnings per share (EPS). Bottom line also refers to any actions that may increase/decrease net earnings…

An investment approach that de-emphasizes the significance of economic and market cycles. This approach focuses on the analysis of individual stocks. In…

Any European stock exchange. This French term can be used to refer to any European exchange; however, it is most often used in reference to the Paris Stock Exchange.

A buy or sell order made at the best market price. If the order cannot be completely filled, a limit order is placed for the remaining shares at the price…

A buy order that is accompanied by a sell limit order above the buy order's price and a sell stop order below the buy order's price. These three component…

A sell order on a short sale that is accompanied (or "bracketed") by a buy stop order above the entry price of the sell order and a buy limit order below…

An exchange-traded fund that invests in Brazilian stocks, either through local stock exchanges or with American and global depositary receipts on European…