Market Definitions

A Chaikin Money Flow (or CMF) is a technical analysis indicator that is used to measure the Money Flow Volume over a set time-period.  Money Flow...

A situation that arises when speculators are willing to pay a futures price that is greater than the expected price of that commodity at the same...

Trading assets are collections of securities intended to be sold for a profit.  They are different from investments and generally held in a separate...

The accumulation/distribution indicator (or A/D) is a cumulative indicator used to provide insight into how strong a trend is.  It uses volume and...

A form of money that lacks value in-and-of itself (ie, it is not backed by gold, silver, copper, etc).  In contract to commodity money, the value of...

A form of moving average (or a stock indication commonly used in technical analysis) that applies more significance on more recent data points. ...

The profit (or loss) that an investor anticipates based on how an asset has behaved historically.  Investors are able to determine these patterns...

A marketplace where securities, commodities, and other financial instruments are traded.  It creates a central platform for traders (from businesses...

A form of money whose value comes from the material it's made out of (ie, the commodity).  Traditional examples of commodity money are gold, silver,...

An Exchange-Traded Fund is a fund made up of a group of assets that can be purchased all at once (ie, without having to buy each component...

An occurrence when large groups of a security are sold gradually in smaller groups to increase the amount of sell orders on the market for a...

A bearish chart pattern indicating that downward momentum is building.  A descending triangle is created by connecting one trend line that connects...