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An Abandoned Baby is a rare but powerful three-candle revers...
ABC Wave Theory is a component of the broader Elliott Wave T...
An abnormal return is the difference between an investment's...
A baby bond is a fixed-income debt instrument with a relativ...
A Back-End Load (also called a Deferred Sales Charge or Exit...
A backstop, in the context of capital markets, is a financia...
CAD means a country is spending more money on buying goods a...
A trading strategy where you buy and sell options with the s...
A call option is a contract that gives the buyer the right, ...
This report shows traders their margin balance, which is the...
Dark Cloud Cover is a two-candle bearish reversal pattern th...
Dark pools are private, off-exchange trading venues where la...
Earnings Per Share (EPS) is one of the most fundamental fina...
This tells you how much money a company makes for each share...
Earnings quality refers to the degree to which a company's r...
Face value is the original price of a financial instrument, ...
Face Value Discount refers to the situation where a debt ins...
The face value (also called par value) of a bond is the prin...
Gamma measures the rate of change of an option's Delta with ...
Gamma exposure, often abbreviated as GEX, measures the total...
The gamma flip is the price level of an underlying asset at ...
A haircut refers to the difference between the market value ...
Haircut Margin refers to the percentage reduction applied to...
Half stock is a type of stock with a value that is half of w...
An iceberg order is a large trade instruction split into sma...
An Illiquid Asset is one that cannot be easily or quickly co...
An IOC (Immediate or Cancel) order is a type of stock market...
The J-Curve Effect describes a pattern where an investment o...
The January Effect is a seasonal market anomaly describing t...
Jensen's Alpha is a risk-adjusted performance measure that c...
The Kelly Criterion is a mathematical formula used to determ...
A Keltner Channel is a volatility-based technical indicator ...
The Key Information Memorandum (KIM) is a concise, standardi...
An L-shaped recovery is an economic pattern in which an econ...
The Ladder Bottom is a rare five-candle bullish reversal pat...
Macaulay Duration is the weighted average time until a bond'...
Macro analysis, short for macroeconomic analysis, is the top...
The Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is a secti...
A naked option (also called an uncovered option) is an optio...
A narrow market refers to a stock market or index rally in w...
Net Asset Value (NAV) is the per-unit value of a mutual...
An OCO (One Cancels the Other) order is when two trade order...
Off-balance sheet refers to assets or liabilities that a com...
An offer document is a legal document provided by a company ...
The Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio is a valuation metric that com...
The P/E ratio (Price-to-Earnings ratio) shows how much inves...
The Profit and Loss (P&L) account shows a company’s reve...
Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIB), are institutional inve...
A Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) is a capital raisi...
Quantitative analysis (quant analysis) in finance refers to ...
R-squared is a measure used to show how well a particular in...
R&D stands for Research and Development. It involves res...
A rainbow option is an exotic derivative whose payoff depend...
The S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500) is the benchmark s...
Safe haven assets are financial instruments that tend to ret...
Scalp trading means making many quick trades to earn small p...
A T-Bill auction is the process by which the Reserve Bank of...
T+1 settlement refers to the settlement cycle in which trade...
A takeover bid is a formal public offer made by an acquirer ...
The Ultimate Oscillator, developed by Larry Williams in 1976...
Under subscription happens when the number of shares applied...
An underlying futures contract refers to the standardised ex...
Valuation is the process of determining the current worth of...
The Value Added Monthly Index (VAMI) is a performance measur...
Value Area is a technical analysis concept derived from Mark...
A warehouse receipt is a document issued by an accredited wa...
A warrant is a financial instrument issued by a company that...
Warrant Conversion refers to the exercise of a warrant—a der...
Yield is the income generated from an investment, usually ex...
The yield curve is a graph that plots the interest rates of ...
A Yield Curve Inversion occurs when short-term interest rate...
In banking and personal finance, a Zero Balance account is o...
A zero coupon bond is a fixed-income instrument that pays no...
A zero-coupon bond is a type of bond that does not pay perio...
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