Market Definitions

What Is Accumulation? In trading and investing, accumulation is the act of acquiring more of an asset over a period of time, usually across the...

What Is a Stop Loss Order? A stop loss is a type of order wherein a market buy or sell order is executed automatically if the asset reaches a...

What Is Trading Volume? Volume is the quantity of an asset that is trading over a specific time period.  It can be measured in shares, contracts, or...

What Is Resistance? In regards to price action, resistance is a price level (or price range) that provides opposition against upward movement.  It...

What Is Support? In regards to price action, support is a price level (or price range) that provides opposition against downward movement.  It can...

What Is a Trend? A trend is the overall direction of an asset’s price of a period of time.  A general increase in price is known as an uptrend while...

What Is an Downtrend? In trading and investing, a downtrend is a period of sustained price decreases.  It is characterized by a period of successive...

What Is an Uptrend? In trading and investing, an uptrend is a period of sustained price increases.  It is characterized by a period of successive...

What Is a Continuation? A continuation is a resumption of trending price action following consolidation.  In other words, it is when an uptrend or...

What Is a Reversal? A reversal is a change in the direction of an ongoing trend.  This could be a shift from an uptrend to a downtrend, or vice...

A term used by many in the financial world to describe a privately-owned startup with a valuation of more than $1 billion.  The term was first used...

A minor pullback or change in the direction of a stock, index, or other financial instrument.  Retracements differ from reversals in the sense that...