Market Terminology
This ratio measures a company's debt versus equity.
What is debt-to-equity ratio?
This 2021 event saw retail traders send a struggling video game retailer’s stock soaring.
What is the GameStop short squeeze?
This nation’s central bank sets the interest rate known as the BoJ policy rate.
What is Japan?
This long-term, low-cost strategy uses index funds.
What is passive investing
This founder of Vanguard revolutionized low-fee investing.
Who is John Bogle?
A “bear market” typically sees a decline of this percent or more.
What is 20%? What is the spread?
This technology index hit 5,000 in 2000 before collapsing in the dot-com bubble.
What is the NASDAQ
The FTSE 100 tracks top companies based in this country.
What is the United Kingdom?
This strategy bets on declining stock prices.
What is short selling?
The “Quant King” who built Renaissance Technologies.
Who is Jim Simons?
This term refers to the bid-ask price difference.
What is the spread?
This movement emphasized democratizing finance, often coordinated via Reddit and memes.
What is r/WallStreet Bets?
BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and this country.
What is South Africa?
This model uses risk-free rate + beta × market risk premium.
What is the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model)?
She leads ARK Invest and champions disruptive innovation.
Who is Cathie Wood?
This measures systematic risk vs market returns
What is beta?
Tesla stock surged after inclusion in this benchmark U.S. index.
What is the S&P 500?
This index tracks over 1,500 companies across Europe, Australasia, and the Far East.
What is EAFE Index?
In options, this strategy profits from volatility but not direction.
What is a straddle?
This economist developed portfolio theory and won the Nobel Prize.
Who is Harry Markowitz?
The term for shares traded daily averaged over time.
What is average daily trading volume?
This cryptocurrency briefly reached a $3 trillion market cap before plunging in 2022.
What is Bitcoin?
This major international institution oversees global financial stability and development.
What is the International Monetary Fund?
Pairs trading relies on this statistical relationship.
What is cointegration?
Legendary fund manager of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund in the 1980s.
Who is Peter Lynch?