| S&P 100 |
The 100 stocks with the largest market capitalization
among the S&P 500.
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| S&P 400 |
The 400 stocks with the smallest market capitalization
among the S&P 500.
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| S&P 500 |
A group of stocks or their associated price index,
that includes 500 large capitalization stocks.
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| SEC |
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Securities and
Exchange Commission
(SEC) |
The federal agency created
by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to administer that
act and the Securities Act of 1933. The statutes administered
by the SEC are designed to promote full public disclosure
and protect the investing public against fraudulent and
manipulative practices in the securities markets. |
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| selling short |
Selling a security and
then borrowing the security with the intent of replacing
that security at a lower price than it was borrowed. The
short trader is betting that the price of the security
will go down. |
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| slippage |
The difference between
estimated and actual transaction costs. The difference
is usually comprised of commissions and price differences.
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| split |
The practice where a
company chooses to increase their total number of shares
buy issuing new shares in proportion to those already
out. |
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| spread |
The difference between
the offered and asked prices for a stock or bond. |
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Standard & Poor's
Corporation |
A company well known
for its rating of stocks and bonds according to investment
risk (the Standard & Poor's Rating) and for
compiling the Standard & Poor's Index–commonly
called the Standard & Poor's 500–that
tracks 400 industrial stocks, 20 transportation stocks,
40 financial stocks, and 40 public utilities as a measurement
indicative of broad changes in the market |
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Standard Industrial
Classification
(SIC) codes |
A numbering system established
by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget that identifies
companies by industry. It is used to promote the comparability
of economic statistics from various sectors of the U.S.
economy. |
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| Stochastic |
The Stochastic Indicator
is based on the observation that as prices increase, closing
prices tend to accumulate ever closer to the highs for
the period. Conversely, as prices decrease, closing prices
tend to accumulate ever closer to the lows for the period.
Trading decisions are made with respect to divergence
between % of "D" (one of the two lines generated by the
study) and the item's price. |
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| stock |
An instrument that signifies
an ownership position in a corporation. |
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| stock symbol |
A unique four- or five-letter
symbol assigned to a security that is used for identifying
it on stock tickers, in newspapers, on on-line services,
and in automated information retrieval systems. |
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| stop limit order |
This is similar to a
stop order. It is an order which becomes a limit order
once the specified price is touched. |
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| stop order |
An order to a broker
to sell a stock at market value if the price every drops
to some value specified by the investor, a stop order
becomes a market order after the price is realized in
the market. |
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| stop-loss order |
A customer order to
a broker that sets the sell price of a stock below the
current market price, therefore protecting profits that
have already been made or preventing further losses if
the stock drops. |
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| support lines |
A support line is the
level that a stock's price generally does not fall below.
It marks the price level at which there is a sufficient
amount of demand to stop and possibly, for a time, turn
a downtrend higher. (See more
information about Support Lines) |
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| symmetrical triangle |
The symmetrical triangle
is a chart pattern which consists of converging trendlines
of support and resistance. As the range between the peaks
and troughs marking the progression of a stock’s
price narrows, the trendlines meet at the "apex,"
located at the right of the chart. The "base"
of the triangle is the vertical line at the left of the
chart which measures the vertical height of the pattern.
(See more information
about the Symmetrical Triangle Pattern) |
