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Stock Market Vocab

For Senior Economics

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Ask the price at which a trader offers to sell their shares
Bear Market A market condition in which prices are expected to fall
Bid The price a trader is willing to pay for shares of a stock
Blue chip stocks Stocks of well-known companies known for their quality and stability
Bond a type of security loaned by an investor to a borrower like a company or government used to fund its operations
Bull Market A market condition in which prices are expected to rise
Capital Gains the profit earned after selling an asset or investment for a higher price than you paid for it
Common Stock type of security that represents ownership in a company
Day trading practice of buying and selling shares of stock within a single day
Diversification investment strategy that divides investment funds across a variety of assets in order to minimize overall risk
Dividend a portion of earnings paid out to a company's shareholders
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stock market index consisting of the 30 most-traded blue-chip stocks on the NYSE
Stock exchange a marketplace where investors and traders buy and sell stocks. Examples include the NYSE and Nasdaq.
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) collection of stocks or bonds combined in a single fund that can be purchased and traded on major stock exchanges.
Expense Ratio measures the cost of owning a mutual fund, including expenses like the management of the fund, overhead fees, and any other costs associated with running the fund (on a $10,000 dollar investment with a .20% expense ratio, you'll pay $20 plus the stock)
Futures contract that requires a buyer to purchase a specific asset, and the seller to sell that asset at a certain future date at an agreed-upon price.
Buying Long The act of buying stock shares with the expectation that the price will rise, resulting in profit
Buying short The act of selling stock shares with the expectation that the asset's price will fall. When an investor goes short on an asset, they borrow that asset, sell it, and hopefully purchase it later at a lower price, resulting in profit
Index Funds investment funds that follow the performance of a specific stock market index
IPO Initial Public Offering, refers to a previously private company that becomes public by selling shares on the stock market
Limit Order an order to buy or sell a stock at or below a specific price
Liquidity measures how quickly and easily a stock can be bought or sold
Margin refers to investing in stock on borrowed money
Mutual Fund pools of investments from shareholders to buy securities together
NASDAQ National Associaction of Securites Dealers Automated Quotations, 2nd largest stock exchange after NYSE (also an index of 3,300 companies traded on the NASDAQ)
P/E Ratio price-earnings ratio, the ratio of a company's share price to the company's earnings per share
Sector a group of companies with similar business products, services, or characteristics. The stock market is
Portfolio an individual's collection of investments, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds & other financial assets.
Volume measure of how much a certain stock or other investment has been traded over a certain period of time
Yield the income earned on an investment over a set period of time, expressed as a percentage of your original investment
52-week range The 52-week range is a technical indicator that measures the lowest and highest price of a stock traded during a 52-week period
S&P 500 a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States
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