Stock Market Dictionary

Accrued Interest

Applying mainly to convertible securities; interest that has accumulated between the most recent payment and the sale of a bond or other fixed-income security.

Acquisition

When, one firm buys another firm.

Active Account

Refers to a brokerage account in which many transactions occur. Brokerage firms may charge a fee for an account that does not generate an adequate level of activity

Actively Managed Funds

In most actively managed funds, the fund manager makes specific investments with the goal of outperforming a benchmark index. Managers do this by trying to identify investments that they believe will do better than the index. That’s their objective anyway.

Aftermarket

Trading activity of a stock immediately following the event by which an operating business's stock becomes publicly tradable. More commonly referred to in connection with an IPO, but also applies following a reverse merger.

Algorithmic Trading

Trading; by means of an automated computer program.

Amortization

A process that expenses the value of an intangible asset over time

Analyst

A person with expertise in evaluating financial investments; he or she performs investment research and makes recommendations to institutional and retail investors to buy, sell, or hold; most analysts specialize in a single industry or business sector.

Announcement Date

The date on which particular news concerning a given company is announced to the public

Annual Report

A financial disclosure of the results of a company for the past year although it is usually a marketing piece to entice shareholders

Annualized Dividend

This field is a calculated value and uses the last dividend paid multiplied by the frequency. It is the amount of a dividend paid to shareholders over four quarters.

Annualized return

The return on investment calculated on a full-year basis, meaning increasing the rate if held less than one year, or reducing the rate if held for more than one year.

Annuities

Annuities are products, usually offered by insurance companies that provide payments to you for a guaranteed period in return for a premium that you pay the annuity provider.

The payments to you can be for a fixed amount (in the case of a fixed annuity) or for an amount that varies according to an underlying investment (in the case of a variable annuity).

Arbitrage

The purchase or sale of an instrument and simultaneous taking of an equal and opposite position in a related market, in order to take advantage of small price, differentials between markets.

Ask

The lowest price; acceptable to a prospective seller of a security.

Asset

A balance sheet item expressing what an individual or a corporation owns.

Asset Allocation

A form of diversification, in which emphasis is placed on dividing capital among separate markets (stocks, bonds, real estate and money markets)

Assignment

Refers to the option writer's (seller's) obligation to sell or buy a stock or other financial instrument at the strike price for which the writer sold the contract.

The buyer of an option has the right (but not the obligation) to exercise the option - that is, buy the underlying asset at the strike price of the contract (long call) or sell (deliver) the underlying asset to the option writer at the strike price of the contract (long put).

Assignment means the options writer receives an exercise notice by another options writer that requires him to sell (in the case of a call) or purchase (in the case of a put) the underlying security at the specified strike price.

At the Close

(CLO) - Designed to take advantage of market action accompanying a moment in time. At the close orders may be entered any time prior to the close, but will be held until the final moments of trading.

The actual price at which the order is filled has nothing to do with the final price for the day. Instead the execution is said to be, “within the closing range.”

Authorized Shares

Number of shares authorized for issuance by a firm’s corporate charter.

Average Daily Trade Volume

A stock's average daily trade volume is the very first thing consider

Averaging down

Buying more of a share as its price falls in order to establish a lower overall average entry price.

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