Market Definitions

A strategy for options trading designed to imitate a long stock position.  A synthetic long stock is created by purchasing at-the-money calls and...

An immediate injection of financial support into a company or organization facing imminent bankruptcy or collapse.  Bailouts can take the form of...

An official document companies must file with Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) as part of a registration process in order to provide an...

Also referred to as a trading range.  This occurs when a security trades within consistent high and low prices for a period of time.  The top of the...

A variation of a futures contract, a perpetual futures contract (or perpetual swap) is an agreement between two counterparty traders to buy or sell...

The opposite of "overbought," oversold refers to a security that is trading at a lower price and has the potential to bounce back.  Oversold...

When a security is believed to be trading at a level above what it should be valued, it is referred to as "overbought."  A pre-assumption with...

An electronic list of buy and sell orders for a specific security or financial instrument organized by price level.  A order book displays the...

A contract that gives its owner the right (not the obligation) to buy or sell an underlying asset at a specified price prior to or on a specified...

Investment strategies that allow you to pool your money with other investors to purchase a collection of stocks or other securities that would be...

A common technical analysis stock indicator, moving averages are a way to smooth out the price data of a stock by creating a constantly updating...

A liquid asset used in the settlement of transactions.  Money itself functions as a medium of exchange for transactional purposes in an economy. ...