Investor Dictionary of words that are commonly used in investment articles and commentary.

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A
Accredited investor
Aggressive Growth Fund
Angel investor
Adjustable rate
Arbirage
Arbitrageur
Ask price
Ask size
Asset allocation
Average rate of return

B
Bagholder
Balanced fund
Bear
Bear market
Bear market rally
Bellwether stock
Bid price
Bid size
Big Board
Block trade
Blow-off top
Boiler room
Bond
Bond fund
Borrowed stock
Bottom
Bottom fisher
Bounce
Breakout
Breath of market
Broker
Brokerage account
Brokerage firm
Broker dealer
Bull
Bull market
Buy
Buy and Hold
Buying power
Buy limit order
Buy order
Buyout
Buy stop order

C
Call
Call option
Cancel order
Candlestick chart
Capital appreciation fund
Capital gain
Capital loss
Capitulation
Cash account
Cash dividend
CBOE
Certificate of Deposit
Chartist
Chasing (stock, the market)
Chicago Board Options Exchange
Chinese wall
Circuit breakers
Close
Closed-end fund
Closing bell
Closing price
Commission
Commodity
Commodity futures
Convertible bonds
Core holding
Correction
Correlation
Cost
Cost-of-living index
Countercyclical
Coupon
Covered call
Covered option
Covered put
Credit crunch
Currency
Cyclical stocks

D
DAX
Day order
Day trader
Dead cat bounce
Debit card
Defensive stock
Deflation
Delayed opening
Delayed quotes
Delisted stock
Delivery date
Delivery price
Depression
Derivative
Discount broker
Diversification
Dividend
DJIA
Dollar cost averaging
Double bottom
Double top
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Downgrade
Downtick
Downtrend

E
Earnings
Earnings per Share
ECN
EDGAR
Electronic Communication Network
Elliott Wave Theory
Emarging market
Equities
Euro
European Central Bank
Exchange
Ex-dividend date
Execution
Expiration date

F
Face value
Falling knife
False breakout
Fed
Federal Reserve Board
Fibonacci numbers
Financial advisor
Financial analyst
Financial planner
Fixed income
Fixed income fund
Fixed rate
Float
Floor broker
Floor trader
Forbes 500
Forced sale
Foreign exchange
FOREX
Fortune 500
Front-end load
Full service broker
Fundamental analysis
Futures
Futures contract

G
Global fund
Going long
Going private
Going public
Going short
Gold bullion
Government securities
Growth fund
Growth industry
Growth stock

H
Haircut
Head and Shoulders
Hedge
Hedge fund
High
High-yield bond
Higher highs
Highs
Holding the bag

I
Income fund
Income stock
Index fund
Individual Retirement Account
Inflation
Initial Public Offering
Insider buying
Insider selling
Insider trading
Institutional investor
International fund
Intraday chart
Investment adviser
Investment-grade bond
Investment fund
Investment trust
IPO
IRA

J
Japanese Yen
Junk bond

K
Keogh plan

L
Lagging indicator
Laissez-faire
Large cap
Leading indicator
Leaps
Level 2 quotes
Leverage
Limit order
Limit price
Load fund
Long position
Low
Lower lows
Lows

M
Managed account
Margin
Margin Account
Margin call
Market Maker
Market neutral
Market timer
Maturity
Maturity date
Medium cap
Mid-cap
Micro cap
Money manager
Money market
Money market account
Money market fund
Mortgage-backed security
Moving average
Municipal bond
Municipal bond fund
Muni fund
Mutual fund


N
Naked call
Naked option
Naked put
NASDAQ
NASDAQ-100
NASDAQ composite index
NDX
New York Stock Exchange
Nikkei 225
Nikkei index
No-load fund
NYSE
NYSE composite index

O
October effect
Offer
OEX
Online trading
Open
Opening bell
Options
Option contract
Option exchange
Option premium
Option writer
OTC
OTCBB
Over-the-counter
Over-the-counter Bulletin Board
Overbought / Oversold indicator

P
Pacific Rim
Par value
P/E ratio
Penny stock
Pink Sheets
Portfolio
Pound Sterling
Preferred stock
Price
Price/earnings ratio
Prime interest rate
Private company
Privately owned
Public company
Publicly traded
Pump and dump
Put
Put option
Put/call ratio

Q
Quantitative analyst
Quarterly report
Quote

R
Rate of return
Real estate
Real estate investment trust
Recession
Recovery
REIT
Resistance
Revenue
Rollover
Roth IRA
Russell 2000 index

S
Santa Claus rally
SEC
Securities analyst
Securities and Exchange Commission
Sell
Sell order
Sell stop order
Share
Shareholder
Short position
Short sale
Short squeeze
Small cap
S&P 100
S&P 500
SPX
Stock
Stock broker
Stock options
Stock split
Stockholder
Stop order
Strike price
Support
Swing trader

T
T-Bill
T-Bond
T-Note
Technical analysis
Timing the market
Trade
Trading
Treasury Bill
Treasury Bond
Treasury Note
Trend

U
Uncovered call
Uncovered option
Uncovered put
Unlisted
Upgrade
Uptick
Uptrend

V
Value fund
Value stock
Variable rate
Volatility
Volume
Vulture
Vulture fund

W
Warrant
Wilshire 5000
World fund

X
XETRA

Y
Yen
Yield
Yield curve
Yuan

Z
Zero-coupon bond




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