THESE PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE MARKET AND INDIVIDUAL STOCKS:
What is BULLS?
100
Also known as the "Big Board:
What is THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE?
100
An order that instructs the broker (or online trading platform) to buy or sell shares at the best available price:
What is MARKET ORDER?
100
Can consist of stocks (Shares) such as Class A and Class B shares.
What is DUAL CLASS STOCK?
100
Calculated by dividing the dollar value of dividends paid in a given year per share of stock held by the dollar value of one share of stock.
What is DIVIDEND YIELD?
200
The very first sale of stock issued by a company to the public.
What is IPO?
200
Price-weighted average of 30 significant stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ.
What is THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE?
200
An order specifies the price at which you want to trade:
What is LIMIT ORDER?
200
Usually conducted only in a margin account.
traders go short in anticipation that the stock will go down.
What is SHORT SELLING?
200
Refer to a company's stock currently held by all its shareholders
What is OUTSTANDING SHARES?
300
These people are generally pessimistic about the market and individual stocks:
What is BEARS?
300
Index of 500 stocks seen as a leading indicator of U.S. stocks
What is THE STANDARD AND POOR'S 500?
300
Calculated by multiplying a company's shares outstanding by the current market price of one share:
What is MARKET CAPITALIZATION?
300
Borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock:
What is BUYING ON MARGIN?
300
Stock Price / Earnings per Share
What is PE RATIO?
400
An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly.
What is TICKER SYMBOL?
400
Market capitalization-weighted index of approximately 3,000 common equities:
What is THE NASDAQ?
400
Typically have a market capitalization of $10 billion or more:
What is LARGE CAP COMPANIES?
400
Procedure is typically used by companies with low share prices that would like to increase these prices to either gain more respectability in the market or to prevent the company from being delisted
What is REVERSE STOCK SPLIT?
400
Have a market capitalization of between $300 million to $2 billion:
What is SMALL CAP COMPANIES?
500
The price at which somebody wishes to buy:
What is BID?
500
The price at which somebody wishes to sell:
What is THE ASK?
500
A distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by the board of directors, to a class of its shareholders:
What is DIVIDEND?
500
Usually done by companies that have seen their share price increase to levels that are too high.
The primary motive is to make shares seem more affordable to small investors: