Stocks- Glossary

Source Money Control

• Accrued Expenses
• After-Hours Trading
• All or None
• All-or-None Order
• American Depositary Receipt (ADR)
• American-Style Options
• Analyst
• Annual Report
• Anonymous Trading
• Ask or Offer
• Ask Price
• Ask Size
• Asset Allocation
• Assets
• At The Close
• At-The-Open
• Average Daily Volume
• Average P/E Ratio
• Averages and Indices
• Averaging Down
• Back-End Load
• Backtesting
• Balance Sheet
• Basing
• Bear Market
• Bear Trap
• Best-Efforts Underwriting
• Better-Price-Limit Orders
• Bid
• Bid Size
• Black Scholes Option Pricing Model
• Black-Scholes Model
• Block Trade
• Blue Chip Stocks
• Blue Chips
• Board Lot
• Book
• Book to Bill Ratio
• Booked Orders
• Bottom Line
• Bought Deal
• Bought-Deal Underwriting
• Bounce
• Box Spread
• Breakout Tests
• Broker or Brokerage Firm
• Bull Market
• Bull Trap
• Bulletin Board System
• Business Day
• Business Trust
• Buy Side Analyst
• Buy-In
• Capital
• Capital Gain or Loss
• Capital Lease Obligations
• Capital Pool Companies
• Capital Stock
• Capital Trust
• Capitalization Change
• Capitalization Effective Date
• Capitalization or Capital Structure
• Capitalization Weighted Index
• Capped Indices
• Carry Trade
• Cash
• Cash & Cash Equivalents
• Cash Dividend / Distribution
• Cash Flow
• Cash Settlement
• Certificate
• Changes in Stock List
• Chat Room
• Clearing Day
• Clearing Number
• Client Order
• Closed-End Fund
• Closed-End Investment Fund
• Closing Transaction
• Commodities
• Common Shares or Common Stock
• Common Stock
• Complete Fill
• Conference Call
• Consensus Estimate or Rating
• Consolidated Short Position Report
• Consumer Stock
• Continuous Disclosure
• Contrarian
• Convertible Bond
• Convertible Security
• Corporation or Company
• Correction
• Cost of Sales
• Coupon Rate
• Covered
• Cross
• Cum Dividend
• Cum Rights
• Cum-Dividend/Distribution Date
• Cyclical Stock
• Daily Price Limit
• Day High
• Day Low
• Day Order
• Days Sales Outstanding
• Debenture
• Debt Price
• Debt to Equity (Long Term)
• Debt to Equity (Total)
• Debt Value
• Debt Volume
• Defensive Stock
• Deferred anything
• Deferred Income Tax
• Deferred Load
• Deferred Revenue
• Delayed Delivery Order
• Delist
• Delisted Issue
• Delisted Issuer
• Delivery
• Demand
• Derivatives
• Diluted Earnings (a.k.a. fully diluted earnings)
• Direct Stock Purchase Plan (DSP)
• Discount
• Discount Broker
• Dividend
• Dividend Yield
• Dividend/Distribution Payable Date
• Dividend/Distribution Record Date
• Dividends
• Dollar Cost Averaging
• Double Bottom/ Double Top
• Downtick
• Downtrend
• Due Diligence
• Dutch Auction
• Earnings per Share (EPS)
• EBIT
• EBITDA
• ECN
• Emerging Markets
• Energy or Royalty Trust
• EPS
• Equities
• Equity Financing
• Equity Option
• Equity Price
• Equity Value
• Equity Volume
• Escrowed Securities
• European-Style Option
• Ex Dividend
• Ex Right
• Ex-D Date
• Ex-Dividend
• Exchange Offering Prospectus (EOP)
• Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
• Exchangeable Security
• Exempt Issuer
• Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
• Extended Hours Trading
• Extra Dividend / Distribution
• Extraordinary Items
• Face Value
• Fair Value
• Fallen Angel
• Fed
• Filing Statement
• Fill or Kill (FOK) Order
• Financial Leverage Ratio
• Financials
• Float Quoted Market Value (QMV)
• Floating Rate Security
• Flow-Through Shares Financing
• Flying Plateau
• Free Cash Flow
• Freeze
• Frequency
• Full Service Broker
• Fully Diluted
• Fundamental Analysis
• Funds From Operations (FFO)
• Future Inflation Gauge
• Gain-on-sale accounting
• GARP
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Geographic Funds
• GICS
• Good Delivery
• Good For the Day
• Good til Canceled
• Good Till Canceled
• Good-Till-Cancelled (GTC) Order
• Good-Till-Date (GTD) Order
• Goodwill
• Gross Margin
• Gross Profit
• Growth Stock
• Growth Stocks
• Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC)
• Halted Issue
• Head & Shoulders Pattern
• Hypothecation
• If, As & When Issued Trading
• Implied Volatility
• Improving the Market
• Income Deposit Security (IDS)
• Income From Continuing Operations
• Income Statement
• Income Stock
• Income Trust
• Index
• Index Option
• Index Participation Unit (IPU)
• Indicated Annual Dividend/Distribution
• Indicative Calculated Closing Price (ICCP)
• Industry Group
• Initial Public Offering (IPO)
• Inside Information
• Insider
• Insider Ownership
• Insider Trading
• Insiders
• Institutional Ownership
• Intangibles
• Interest Coverage
• Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG)
• International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)
• Intraday
• Inventory
• Investment Advisor

• Investment Bank
• Investment Capital
• Investment Counsellor
• Investment Dealer
• Investment Fund
• Investor Relations
• IPO Financing
• Issue
• Issue Status
• Issued and Outstanding Securities
• Issuer Status
• Jitney Order
• Junior Corporation
• Junk Bonds
• Large-Cap
• Last Sale Price
• LEAP
• LEAPS (Long-Term Equity Appreciation Participation Securities)
• Leveraged Buy Out
• Liabilities
• Limit Order
• Liquidating Order
• Liquidity
• Listed Stock
• Listing Application
• Lockup Period
• Long Tail
• Long-Term Investments
• Margin
• Margin Call
• Market
• Market Cap
• Market Capitalization
• Market Not Held Order
• Market On Close Order
• Master Limited Partnership (MLP)
• Material Change
• Median Market Cap
• Member
• Message Board
• Mid-Cap
• Minimum Fill Order
• Minimum Guaranteed Fill (MGF) Orders
• Mixed Lot or Broken Lot
• Model
• Momentum Analysis
• Momentum Stocks
• Money Market
• Mortgage REIT
• Most Recent Quarter (MRQ)
• Moving Average (MA)
• Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)
• Moving Negative Divergence
• Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS)
• Must-Be-Filled (MBF) Order
• Naked Writer
• Net Change
• Net Worth
• New Issuer Listing
• New Issuer Listing – IPO (Initial Public Offering)
• New Issuer Listing – Plan of Arrangement
• New Issuer Listing – Spin-Off
• New Listing
• Non-Certificated Issues
• Non-Exempt Issuer
• Non-Net Order
• Non-Operating Expenses
• Non-Operating Income
• Non-Resident Order
• Normalized Earnings
• Odd Lot
• On-Stop (O/S) Order
• One-Sided Market
• Ontario Securities Commission
• Open
• Open End Mutual Fund
• Open Order
• Open-End Investment Fund
• Opening
• Operating Cash Flow
• Operating Earnings
• Operating Income
• Operating Margin
• Option Class
• Option Cycle
• Option Holder
• Option Series
• Option Type
• Order Number
• OTC Foreign Trading
• Overbought
• Oversold
• P/E
• Par Value
• Partial Fill
• Pay Date
• Payment for Order Flow
• Payout Ratio
• PEG
• Percent to Double
• Portfolio
• Post-Offering Shares
• Preferred Shares
• Preferred Stock
• Price Gap
• Price to Book Ratio (p/b)
• Price to Earnings Ratio (p/e)
• Price to Sales Ratio (p/s)
• Price-Earnings (P/E) Ratio
• Principal Trade
• Priority
• Private Placement
• Pro Forma Earnings
• Profit
• Profit Margin
• Program Trading
• Prospectus
• Proxy Statement
• Public Float
• Push-Out
• Put/Call Ratio
• Quiet Period
• Quote
• Quoted Market Value (QMV)
• Rally
• Real-Time Quotes
• Record Date
• Redeemable Security
• Registered Traders
• REIT (real estate investment trust)
• Relative Dividend Yield
• Relative Position Report
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Resistance
• Responsible Registered Trader
• Retractable Security
• Return on Capital (return on invested capital)
• Revenue
• Reverse Stock Split
• Reverse Takeover (RTO)/Backdoor Listing
• Rights
• RSI
• Sales
• Sales per Share
• Same Store Sales
• Screening
• Seat
• Secondary Offering Financing
• Sector Funds
• Securities
• Securities Commission
• Seed Stock
• Sell Side Analyst
• Settlement Date
• Share Certificate
• Shareholders Equity
• Shares outstanding
• Short
• Short Sale
• Short Sale Squeeze
• Short Selling
• Short Squeeze
• Short-term Debt
• Short-term Investments
• Simple Moving Average (SMA)
• Small Cap
• Special Terms
• Special Trading Session
• Speculator
• Split Shares
• Spread
• Standing Committees
• Stock Dividend/Distribution
• Stock Index Futures
• Stock List Deletion
• Stock Price Index
• Stock Split
• Stock Symbol
• Stock Symbol Extension
• Stop Order
• Stop Order (stop loss)
• Street Certificate
• Structured Products
• Substitutional Listing
• Supplemental Listing
• Support Levels
• Surprise
• Suspended Issue
• Sweep
• Symbol Change
• Tangible Book Value
• Technical Analysis
• Thin Market
• Tick
• Ticker Tape
• Ticket Fee
• Time Segmented Volume (TSV)
• Timely Disclosure Policy
• To Buy and To Sell
• Top
• Top-Line
• Total Number of Shares
• Total Return Index Value (TRIV)
• Trading Halt
• Trading Issue
• Trading Number
• Trading Range
• Trading Session
• Trailing Twelve Months (TTM)
• Transaction Date
• Transactions
• Transfer Agent
• Transferable Security
• Trend Lines
• Trending Market
• Triple Witching
• Underlying Interest
• Undervalued
• Unlisted
• Upside Breakout
• Uptick
• Uptrend
• Value Investor
• Value Stocks
• Venture Capitalist
• Volatile
• Volatility
• Volume
• Watch Portfolio
• When-Issued Trading
• Whisper Number
• Working Capital
• Write
• Yield

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• How are Net Interest Margins (NIMs) calculated?
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• How do I know whether my order is placed?
• How do I place my orders with the broker or sub broker?
• How is NIM different from Spread?
• How long it takes to receive my money for a sale transaction and my shares for a buy transaction?
• In case of purchase of shares, when do I make payment to the broker?
• In case of sale of shares, when should the shares be given to the broker?
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• What are Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares?
• What are Cumulative Preference Shares?
• What are DVR shares?
• What are equity shares?
• What are Participating Preference Shares?
• What are preferece shares?
• What are the charges that can be levied on the investor by a stock broker?
• What are the prescribed pay-in and pay-out days for funds and securities for Normal Settlement?
• What details are required to be mentioned on the Contract note issued by the Stock Broker?
• What documents should be obtained from broker on execution of trade?
• What does ISIN stand for wrt securities?
• What does Open Interest mean?
• What does Secondary Market mean?
• What does ‘In the Money’, ‘Out of Money’, ‘At the Money’ mean, with respect to Call Option?
• What does ‘pari passu’ mean?
• What happens if I do not get my money or share on the due date?
• What happens if the shares are not bought in the auction?
• What is a Capital Market
• What is a Money Market?
• What is a Rolling Settlement?
• What is a ‘Call’ option?
• What is a ‘Put’ option?
• What is an Account Period Settlement?
• What is an Auction?
• What is Arbitration?
• What is ASBA, with respect to IPOs?
• What is Capital Adequacy Ratio for banks?
• What is Commercial Paper?
• What is debt-equity ratio?
• What is dividend payout ratio?
• What is dividend yield?
• What is enterprise value?
• What is EPS?
• What is free-float?
• What is Margin Trading Facility?
• What is meant by Unique Client Code?
• What is meant by ‘Right of first refusal’?
• What is meant by ‘Stoploss’?
• What is Member -Client Agreement Form?
• What is Record Date?
• What is repo rate and reverse repo rate?
• What is Return on Equity (RoE)?
• What is Short Selling and Securities Lending & Borrowing?
• What is STT?
• What is swap ratio?
• What is T2T segment on BSE?
• What is the difference between cash EPS and EPS?
• What is the difference between rights and bonus shares?
• What is the difference between the primary market and the secondary market?
• What is the maximum brokerage that a broker can charge?
• What is the pay-in day and pay- out day?
• What kind of details do I have to provide in Client Registration form?
• What recourses are available to me for redressing my grievances?
• Who is a broker?
• Who is a sub broker?
• Whom should I contact for my Stock Market related transactions?