Stock market

In finance, margin is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit with a counterparty (most often their broker or an exchange) to cover some or all of the credit risk the holder poses for the counterparty.

A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market.

Institutional investor is a term for entities which pool money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans.

Investor Relations (IR) is a strategic management responsibility that is capable of integrating finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a company's securities achieving fair valuation.

An electronic communication network (ECN) is a type of computerized forum or network that facilitates the trading of financial products outside traditional stock exchanges.

The Black–Scholes /ˌblæk ˈʃoʊlz/ or Black–Scholes–Merton model is a mathematical model of a financial market containing derivative investment instruments.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt is a non-fiction book by the American writer Michael Lewis, published by W.

Electronic trading, sometimes called etrading, is a method of trading securities (such as stocks, and bonds), foreign exchange or financial derivatives electronically.

In economics and finance, arbitrage (US /ˈɑːrbᵻtrɑːʒ/, UK /ˈɑːbᵻtrɪdʒ/, UK /ˌɑːbᵻtrˈɑːʒ/) is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.

Day trading is speculation in securities, specifically buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day.

In finance, short selling (also known as shorting or going short) is the practice of selling securities or other financial instruments that are not currently owned, and subsequently repurchasing them ("covering").

In financial markets, a share is a unit of account for various investments.

Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).

A public, publicly traded, publicly held company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

In finance, a contract for difference (CFD) is a contract between two parties, typically described as "buyer" and "seller", stipulating that the seller will pay to the buyer the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at contract time (if the difference is negative, then the buyer pays instead to the seller).

A shell corporation is a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions without itself having any significant assets or operations.

The Indian Trading League is India's first and only real world stock and commodity market competition where participants compete to earn maximum returns.

WeSeed.com was a free website aimed at teaching people about the stock market.

TradingView — web service and social network for traders, with a platform for technical analysis.

MoneyBee is a distributed computing project in the fields of economics, finance and stock markets, that generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.

Instinet is an institutional, agency-only broker that also serves as the independent equity trading arm of its parent, Nomura Group.

End of day (EOD), end of business (EOB), close of business (COB) or close of play (COP) is the end of the trading day in financial markets, the point when trading ceases.

GStock was a distributed computing project formed in 2006 for stock market analysis.

Next: The Future Just Happened is a book by Michael Lewis published on July 17, 2001 by W.

An exchange, or bourse /bʊərs/, is a highly organized market where (especially) tradable securities, commodities, foreign exchange, futures, and options contracts are sold and bought.

Octa Markets Incorporated (OctaFX) is an online forex broker.

A squeeze-out or squeezeout, sometimes synonymous with freeze-out (freezeout), is the compulsory sale of the shares of minority shareholders of a joint-stock company for which they receive a fair cash compensation.

Extended-hours trading is stock trading that happens either before or after the normal trading hours of a stock exchange, i.

Matchbook FX was an internet-based electronic communication network ("ECN" or Electronic Trading Network) for trading currency online in the FX or Foreign exchange market.

Thinkorswim (often stylized and officially branded as "thinkorswim", lacking capitalization) is an American brokerage offering live and online investor education services.

StockTwits is a social media platform designed for sharing ideas between investors, traders, and entrepreneurs.