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    Stock Market Terminology

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    This document defines common stock market terms and lingo. It provides definitions for stock symbols, mutual funds, bonds, ETFs, long and short positions, bid and ask spreads, limit and market orders, margin, shorting, IPOs, dividends, yield, secondary offerings, beta, sectors, volatility, liquidity, PESO cost averaging, and brokerage firms. The purpose is to familiarize readers with basic terminology used in stock trading and investing.

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    This document defines common stock market terms and lingo. It provides definitions for stock symbols, mutual funds, bonds, ETFs, long and short positions, bid and ask spreads, limit and market orders, margin, shorting, IPOs, dividends, yield, secondary offerings, beta, sectors, volatility, liquidity, PESO cost averaging, and brokerage firms. The purpose is to familiarize readers with basic terminology used in stock trading and investing.

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    STOCK MARKET LINGO

    CREATED BY:
    ANTONETTE AQUINO

    Familiarize yourself with these


    terms
    STOCK SYMBOL/TICKER MUTUAL FUND
    The combination of letters that A pool of assets managed by a money
    represents the publicly traded manager for a fee that can be bought by LONG BID/ASK SPREAD
    company individual investors A position that benefits from a stock The difference between the price people

    STOCK 
    want to buy a stock for and what people
    going up
    BROKERAGE FIRM
    want to sell the stock for
    Part ownership in a public company
    A company that SHORT
    BOND
    allows you to trade in and out of positions A position that benefits from a stock going LIMIT ORDER
    and holds/tracks the positions you down
    A loan that is given out to A purchase or sale of a stock only at a
    own in an account.
    BID
    companies/governments to collect specific price point

    interest on the principal


    loaned out MARGIN The price someone is willing to pay for a
    stock
    Borrowing money to invest
    MARKET ORDER
    ETF
    ASK A purchase or sale of a stock as
    A collection of stocks that are pooled and
    SHORTING quickly as possible at the present value of
    can be traded throughout the market The price someone is willing to collect
    the asset
    day under a single ticker symbol (has Borrowing shares from a broker to sell for selling a stock
    management fees) with hopes to buy back later at a lower
    price
    STOCK MARKET LINGO
    CREATED BY:
    ANTONETTE AQUINO

    Familiarize yourself with


    these terms
    BEARISH IPO (INITIAL PRICE VOLATILITY
    An outlook that feels like the price of an asset or OFFERING)
    How fast a stock goes up and down
    market will go down in value When a private company sells shares in
    the company and becomes a publicly traded stock

    BULLISH DIVIDEND LIQUIDITY


    An outlook that feels like the price of an A cash payment from a stock to the How quickly you can get in and out of a
    asset or market will up in value shareholder position (small bid/ask spread is better)

    SECONDARY OFFERING
    YIELD PCA (PESO COST
    This is the % return on investment for a AVERAGING
    When a public company raises cash by
    dividend relative to the purchase price ($5 Purchasing stock consistently to lower
    selling additional shares
    dividend on a $100 stock is a 5% yield) the cost basis of the position

    BETA SECTOR PORTFOLIO


    The relationship of an individual's stock A group of stocks that are in a similar The collection of investments that an
    movement with the overall market. individual holds
    business

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