Market Definitions

An abbreviation for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.  It is a free-float weighted measurement stock market index of the 500 largest companies...

Fungible, tradable financial instruments used to raise capital in public and private markets.  There are three types of securities: equities (which...

A form of stop-loss designed to keep profit coming (or prevent loss) as the price of a stock remains moving in an investor's favor.  Generally...

Trading slang referring to an exponential growth in a stock's price.  The term comes from the appearance of a parabola graph in mathematics.  In a...

A period of time when a stock market sector that had previously been struggling begins outperforming competition and becomes a market leader.  A...

A figure used by the investment community to determine a company's size.  It refers to the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding...

In contrast to Micro Trading (which is industry specific), Macro Trading is taking advantage of changes within a large sector.  Traders utilizing...

A theory that is used as a way to describe a blowing bubble.  It is made up of specified signals at specified times which may predict future...

The buying and selling of financial instruments (derivatives, forex, commodities, etc) in an attempt to make a profit the same day.  While all...

A continuation chart pattern seen when a security shows large upward or downward motion followed by a brief consolidation period before continuing...

Also called "investor sentiment," market sentiment is the overall attitude of investors in a security or in the market as a whole.  It is the crowd...

Common in spot forex trading, lot sizes are the amount of units required to make a trade.  Within forex trading, the lot sizes are typically 100,...