Market Definitions

Established in 1952, Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) argues that a single investment's risk and return characteristics shouldn't be viewed alone. ...

The simplest of the order types, a market order is a buy or sell order to be executed immediately at the current market prices.  As long as there...

A market participant or member of a firm or exchange that also buys and sells securities for its own account at prices it displays in its exchanges...

Markets tend to move in a cyclical trajectory, marked by 4 phases.  First is the accumulation phase where the market has bottomed and is marked by...

Management Fees - The fees and expenses associated with having an investment fund professionally managed.  Typically, there is an investment manager...

A acronym for Moving Average Convergence Divergence, MACD is a technical indicator used to identify moving averages that may be indicating the...

The opposite of a short trade, a long position occurs when a trader has purchased an asset they are waiting to sell when the price goes up.  "Long"...

Limit Order - A type of order to buy or sell a security at a specified price or better.  For buy limit orders, the order will only be executed at...

Using borrowed funds to increase a trading position beyond what cash alone could buy.  In brokerage firms, leverage is used in the form of margin...

A facet of technical analysis that looks to the past rate of return of a bond, stock, security, index, or fund to predict possible future data...

A modern method of trading that makes use of powerful computers and rapid programs to transact a large number of trading orders in a fraction of a...

Japanese for "average pace," Heikin-Ashi candlesticks utilize the open-close data from the previous period and the open-high-low-close data from the...