Stock market

20 The topic is about terms used in the stock market. The stock market is a place where shares of pubic listed companies are traded. The primary market is where companies float shares to the general public in an initial public offering (IPO) to raise capital terms

This glossary is made for understanding the terms used in the stock market.

Ask: Noun; The ask is the price a seller is willing to accept for a security, which is often referred to as the offer price. Along with the price, the ask quote might also stipulate the amount of the security available to be sold at the stated price. The bid is the price a buyer is willing to pay for a security, and the ask will always be higher than the bid.; Example: Quotation is a common term that refers to the highest bid price for a security or commodity and the lowest ask price available for the same asset.; fr: Prix de vente
Bear market: Noun; A market in which securities or commodities are persistently declining in value.; Example: To counteract the rise in prices, the Federal Reserve rolled out a series of rate hikes, sending stocks down into a bear market and increasing recession fears.; fr: Marché baissier
Beta: Noun; A measure of the risk potential of a stock or an investment portfolio expressed as a ratio of the stock's or portfolio's volatility to the volatility of the market as a whole.; Example: For example, we thought IBM's beta, which is a measure of volatility, was 1.1 and that was it.; fr: Beta
Blue-chip stocks: Noun; A blue chip is a nationally recognized, well-established, and financially sound company. Blue chips generally sell high-quality, widely accepted products and services. Blue-chip companies are known to weather downturns and operate profitably in the face of adverse economic conditions, which helps to contribute to their long record of stable and reliable growth.; Example: Would you consider Home Depot and Lowe's to be blue-chip stocks, and which one do you like better ?; fr: Action blue chip
Broker: Noun; A firm or person who executes your buy and sell orders for stocks or other securities.; Example: But what the broker didn't tell him was that this was a new kind of mortgage.; fr: Courtier
Bull market: Noun; A bull market is the condition of a financial market in which prices are rising or are expected to rise. The term "bull market" is most often used to refer to the stock market but can be applied to anything that is traded, such as bonds, real estate, currencies, and commodities.; Example: After a delay, the stock market began a big bull market that lasted 18 years and the U.S. economy enjoyed the greatest growth period in its history.; fr: Marché haussier
Candlestick: Noun; A candlestick is form of price chart used in technical analysis that displays the high, low, open, and closing price of a stock within a specific timeframe. It originally formed from Japanese rice merchants and traders to track market prices and daily momentum hundreds of years before being a norm in the U.S.; Example: Let's take a look at the daily candlestick chart of Visa for a more tactical approach to this trade, and we'll talk about some specific levels here.; fr: Chandelier
Exchange-Traded Funds: Noun; These are baskets of securities that act like securities themselves. They track an underlying index (comprised of all the securities covered by the ETF) and they are marketable. There is no limit on what an ETF can contain, for example: stocks, bonds, and commodities.; Example: So why not hand it over to a professional to manage your money for you, and things like mutual funds and exchange traded funds that have Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, are those companies going to go out of business anytime soon?; fr: Fonds indiciels cotés en bourse
Initial Public Offering: Noun; An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance for the first time.; Example: Imagine if the night before an initial public offering of a major global bank, there was a deepfake showing the bank's CEO drunkenly spouting conspiracy theories.; fr: Offre publique initiale
Leverage: Noun; When you use leverage, you borrow capital from your broker with the goal of increasing profits. It’s one way to potentially increase gains — but it also increases losses.; Example: It's a nice way to leverage up a play with a high price stock.; fr: Effet de levier
Liabilities: Noun; A liability is something a person or company owes, usually an amount of money. Liabilities are settled over time via the transfer of economic benefits such as money, goods, or services, Liabilities include loans, mortgages account payable, and accrued expenses.; Example: So as long as your assets exceed your liabilities by $1, you're doing better than about the bottom quarter of American society.; fr: Passifs
Market index: Noun; A market index is a hypothetical portfolio of investment holdings that represents a segment of the financial market. The calculation of the index value comes from the prices of the underlying holdings.; Example: There's no scientific evidence that mutual funds outperform a simple strategy of holding the market index.; fr: Indices boursiers
Moving average: Noun; Generally speaking, the moving average helps to identify average price data, by calculating the moving average, the impacts of random, short-term fluctuations on the price of a stock are mitigated as you have an understanding of the movement of a stock price.; Example: It's the defaults are a 20-day moving average and the upper band is two standard deviations of the same data that you use to calculate the moving average plotted above and then the same interval plotted below.; fr: Moyenne pondérée
Pink sheets: Noun; Pink sheets are listings for stocks that trade over-the-counter (OTC) rather than on a major U.S. stock exchange.; Example: So they don't want us going on talking about a stock trading on the pink sheets that could double based on a mention on TV.; fr: Feuilles roses
Pump and dump: Noun; Pump-and-dump is a manipulative scheme that attempts to boost the price of a stock or security through fake recommendations.; Example: Something we have seen recently with cryptocurrencies employing the old pump and dump strategy.; fr: Gonfler et larguer
Quote: Noun; A quote is the last price at which an asset traded; it is the most recent price that a buyer and seller agreed upon and at which some amount of the asset was transacted.; Example: Quotes may be provided by a variety of outlets; investment news sites and trading platforms both provide quotes.; fr: Cotation
Rally: Noun; A rally is a rapid increase in the general price level of the market or of the price of a stock. Depending on the overall environment, it can either be a bull rally or a bear rally. In a bear market, upward trends of as little as 10% can qualify as a rally.; Example: All of this means that the stock market rally we have seen since may of 2020 has been primarily fueled by big tech companies and/or businesses that don't know what profit is.; fr: Rallye
Short selling: Noun; Short selling occurs when an investor borrows a security and sells it on the open market, planning to buy it back later for less money.; Example: What hedge funds were doing was practicing short selling.; fr: Vente à découvert
Stock symbol: Noun; A stock symbol is an arrangement of characters—usually letters—representing publicly-traded securities on an exchange.; Example: Sellers who are very active on Twitter under the hashtag TeslaQ, which is a stock symbol followed by the Q for bankruptcy.; fr: Symbole boursier
Volatile: Adjective; Characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change.; Example: The share price performs better particularly in a volatile market.; fr: Volatile