Terminology Flashcards
Bill vs bear market
Bullish- positive outlook (expect prices to rise)
Bearish-negative outlook (expect prices to fall)
Blue chip stocks
Stocks complied of large leading industry companies (huge companies and safer )
Day trading
Buying and selling through out the day (high risk)
Swing trading
Weekly trading (long term trading)
Position tradings
Holding a position for months or years (actual investing)
Scalping
Day trading on steroids (seconds)
Algorithmic trading
Trading with computer programs with mathematical algorithms
Options trading
Buy and sell contracts at a pre determined price
Going long or short
Long -buying shares of stock expecting it goes up
Short -betting against a stock expecting it to go down
Short squeeze
A market phenomenon of unexpected rise in stock price forcing short sellers to buy making the price BOOM (game stop)
EPS
Earnings
Per
Share
PE
Price to earnings ratio
PEG
Price earnings to growth ratio
P/B
Price to book ratio
ROE
Return
On
Equity