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Investment Unit

5 number summary

TermDefinition
Box and Whisker Plot Displays the five-number summary of a set of data.
5 number summary minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum
Stocks A share of the value of a company, which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment and which gives the investor small partial ownership of the company
Bonds A security in which the investor loans money to a company or government, which then pays regular interest to the bondholder and returns the principal on the bond's maturity date
Mutual Funds A collection of stocks and/or bonds combined into one fund which will be traded as a unit, typically chosen and actively managed by an "expert" in exchange for a fee from each investor. Can only be traded once a day when market closes.
Index Funds A low-fee portfolio of stocks chosen to track or mimic a stock market index, thereby removing the human element of investing because no one is choosing the individual stocks.
ETFs A basket of securities that trade on an exchange, just like a stock. They can be bought and sold all day.
Interquartile Range The IQR is defined as the difference between the third quartile value and the first quartile value.
Center Middle of the data, usually measured by median or the mean.
Variation How spread out the data is, can be measured by Range, IQR, and Standard Deviation.
Risk Degree of uncertainty on how likely the investor is to make money on an investment
Certificate of Deposit (CDs) A savings certificate with a fixed interest rate and maturity date, holding the saver's money until the CD fully matures
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