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Stock Market Terminology
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filiated with a firm. Brokers are the link between investors and the stock market. When acting as a broker for the purchase or sale of listed stock, the investment advisor does not own the securities but acts as an agent for the buyer and seller and charges a commission for these services.
Bull Market
A market in which stock prices are rising.
Business Day
Any day from Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays.
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Call Option
An option which gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a fixed amount of a certain stock at a specified price within a specified time. Calls are purchased by investors who expect a price increase.
Capital
To an economist, capital means machinery, factories and inventory required to produce other products. To investors, capital means their cash plus the financial assets they have invested in securities, their home and other fixed assets.
Capital Gain or Loss
Profit or loss resulting from the sale of certain assets classified under the income tax legislation as capital assets. This includes stocks and other investments such as investment property.
Cash Dividend / Distribution
A dividend/distribution that is paid in cash.
Cash Settlement
Settlement of an option contract not by delivery of the underlying shares, but by a cash payment of the difference between the strike or exercise price and the underlying settlement price.
Certificate
The physical document that shows ownership of a bond, stock or other security.
Changes in Stock List
Any modification to the list of tradable issues of an exchange. These modifications include: new listings, supplemental security listings, substitutional listings, deletions, name changes, and stock symbol changes.
Circuit Limit
Certain exchanges put a circuit limit to the price of the stock and those stocks in a circuit filter can not be traded above or below the price set in the circuit limit.
Client Order
An order from a retail customer of a Participating Organization.
Closed-End Investment Fund
An investment trust that issues a fixed number of securities that trade on a stock exchange or in the over-the-counter market. Assets of a closed-end fund are professionally managed in accordance with the fund’s investment objective and policies and may be invested in a wide range of financial instruments/assets. Like other publicly traded securities, the market price of closed-end fund securities fluctuates and is determined by supply and demand in the marketplace.
Closing Transaction
An order to close out an existing open futures or options contract.
Commission
The fee charged by an investment advisor or broker for buying or selling securities as an agent on behalf of a client.
Commodities
Products used for commerce that are traded on a separate, authorized commodities exchange. Commodities include agricultural products and natural resources such as timber, oil and metals. Commodities are the basis for futures contracts traded on these exchanges.
Common Shares or Common Stock
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