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A
Access Requirements
Accumulation/Distribution Line
Admission to Trading
Aggressive order
Algorithm
Algorithmic Trading
All or None Order
Appropriateness Test
Approved Publication Arrangement (APA)
Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM)
Arbitrage Strategy
Arrival Price
Ask
Ask Size
Asset Allocation
Asset-Backed Security (ABS)
Auction
Automated Trading
Average Price
B
Bar Chart
Basis Point (bps)
Bear Market
Benchmark
Best Execution
Bid-Ask Spread
Blue Chip Stocks
Bond
Book Value
Breakout
Bull Market
Buy Limit Order
Buy Stop Order
Buying power
C
Candlestick Chart
Capital Markets
Central Counterparty (CCP)
Circuit Breaker
Classification of Clients
Clearing
Clearing Eligible
Clearings / Clearing Broker / Clearing House
Client Assets
Close-out mode
Closing Price
Collateral
Commission / Commission per Share
Conflicts of Interest
Consolidated Tape
Credit Default Swap (CDS)
Cross-Market Behavior
D
Daily Stop Loss
Dark Pool
Dealer
Delivery vs. Payment (DVP)
Derivative
Direct Market Access (DMA)
Dissemination
Distortion and Misleading Behaviour
Distribution Policy
Dividend
Dividend Yield
E
Earnings Announcements / Earnings Per Share (EPS)
ECN
Economic Calendar
Electronic Order Book Trading
Equilibrium Price
Equity
Equivalence Assessment
Exchange
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Execution-only Service
F
Face Value
Fair and Orderly Markets
Financial Instrument
FINRA
Fiscal Policy
Fixed Cost
Fixed Income
Fundamental Data
G
Gross Profit
H
Hard Position Limit
Hard-to-Borrow
Hedging
High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
Hotkeys
I
IBAN
Iceberg/Reserve Order
Improper Disclosure
Indication of Interest (IOI)
Indirect Trading
Inducement
Inflation
Initial Margin Requirement
Initial Public Offering
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Inside Information
Insider Dealing
Insider Dealing / Insider Trading
Interdealer Broker
Interest Rate Risk
Interest Rate Swap
Intermediary
Interpositioning
Investment Bank
Investment Grade Bond
Investment Services
IPO Agent (Distributor)
IPO Manager
ISIN
Issue Price
L
Lagging Indicator
Large Cap
Last In First Out (LIFO)
Latency (Latency Period)
Layering
Leverage
Limit Order
Liquidity
Lit Market
Lit Order
Long Position
Long-Term Capital Gain
M
Margin
Margin Account
Margin Call
Market Abuse
Market Capitalization (Market Cap)
Market Data
Market Disorder
Market Efficiency
Market Fragmentation
Market Integrity
Market Maker
Market Manipulation
Market Operator
Market Order
Market Price
Market Risk
Maturity Date
Micro Cap
Multi-leg Options
Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF)
Mutual Fund
N
Naked Position
NASDAQ
NAV (Net Asset Value)
NBBO
Nominal Value
Non-Central Clearing
Non-Deliverable Forward (NDF)
Non-Execution Venue
NYSE
O
Off-Book Trading
Off-Exchange Trading (OTC)
Offer Price (Ask Price)
On-Exchange Trading
Open Interest
Open Order
Option
Option Chain
Options Contract
Order Book
Order Destination
Order Flow
Order Management System (OMS)
Order Matching Engine
Order Types
Over-the-Counter (OTC)
Overnight Risk
P
Par Value
Passive Order
Pattern Day Trader Rule (U.S.)
Payment Date
Payment for Order Flow
PB (Prime Brokerage)
Penny Stock
PIP (Price Interest Point)
Plain Vanilla Options
Pool
Portfolio
Portfolio Diversification
Position
Position Sizing
Post-Trade Transparency
Pre-market
Preferred stocks
Price Discovery
Price Manipulation
Price Priority
Principal Trading
Put
Put Spread
Q
Quotation
Quote Stuffing
R
Rally
Range-Bound
Realized P&L
Rebalancing
Rebate
Recession
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Retail Investor
Return on Investment (ROI)
Reversal Pattern
Risk Management
Risk-Reward Ratio
Rollover
Round Trip Trade
S
Scalping
Secondary Market
Securities
Sell Order
Sell-Off
Settlement
Sharpe Ratio
Short Interest
Short Selling (Shorting)
Signal
Single-leg Options
Slippage
Smart Order Routing (SOR)
Spoofing
Spread
Stablecoin
Stock Split
Stop Order
Stop-Limit Order
Stop-Loss Order
Support Level
Swing Trading
Systematic Trading
T
T+1, T+2, T+3
Take-Profit Order (TP)
Technical Analysis
Tick
Tick Size
Time in Force
Trailing Stop
U
Underlying Asset
Unrealized Gain/Loss
Unsecured Debt
Uptick
Uptick Rule
Uptrend
US Treasuries
V
Valuation
Value at Risk (VaR)
Value Date
Vega
VIX (Volatility Index)
Volatility
Volume
VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)
W
Warrant
Wash Trading
Whipsaw
Withdrawal Risk
Y
Yield
Yield Curve
Z
Z-Trader
Zero-Coupon Bond
Zero-Day Options (0DTE)