Glossary of stock market terms

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Following is a glossary of stock market terms .

  • Bear market: a general decline in the stock market over a period of time. See Market trend.
  • Bull market: a period of generally rising prices. See Market trend.
  • Closing print: a report of the final prices for the day on a stock exchange.
  • Market top: the highest point of trading before the market shifts from a bull market to a bear market.
  • Market trend: the tendency of financial markets to move in a particular direction over time.[1]
  • Runoff or run-off: the period at the end of a stock market trading session originally reserved for printing end-of-trading share prices and values onto ticker tape;[2] now used to describe trades at the end of a session that may not be announced or reported until the start of the next session.
  • Trade (financial instrument), the buying and selling of financial instruments.

References

  1. Start Market Course, George Fontanills, Tommy Gentile, John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2001, p. 91.
  2. See e.g. Investopedia definition of runoff

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