Investment concepts
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| Asset allocation | The porportion of funds invested in various catagories of assets, such as money market instruments, long-term debt, stocks, and real estate.
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| Bear market | A falling stock market
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| Bull market | A rising stock market
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| Capital gain | A change in the market value security
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| Dividend yield | The part of the total return associated with the dividendsd paid by the firm. It is computed by divideng the amount of dividends paid by the current stock price.
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| holding period return( HPR ) | The return earned over the period of time that an investment is held, which might be 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years.
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| Income securities | Investments such as preferred stocks and corporate bonds, that offer steady dividends or interest payments.
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| Limit order | An order to buy or sell a stock at no worse than a specified price.
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| Margin requirement | The minimum percentage of the total purchase price that an investor must have to buy stock( or other investment ) on margin.
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| Margin trading | When an investor borrows from his?her broker some portion of the funds needed to purchase an investment.
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| Margin capitalization | The total market value of a firm's stock, which can be computed by muliplying the number of shares outstanding by the market price per share.
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| Margin order | An order to execute a transaction at the best price available when the transaction reaches the market.
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| Short selling | A situatiion in which an ivestor borrows the stock from another investor and then sells it, but promises to replace the stock at a later date.
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| Stock symbol | The trading initials of a company; the reference used by brokers when trades are made and price quotes are retrieved.
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| Stop order | An order that specifies the price at which a market order is initiated.
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| Street name | A situation in which a stock is registered to the brokerage firm, rather than the individual investor.
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