Pattern day trader
Pattern Day Trader: This is a day trader who day trades 4 or more times in 5 business days within a single margin account. The term “pattern Day-Trader” is defined as any customer who...
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Day trader
The IRS defines day traders to be those who meet the following three characteristics: 1) Traders maintain substantial trading activity. (10-20 daily trades should be sufficient.) 2) The trader’s trading activity is sustained on...
Stock Market Index
A stock market index is an aggregate value arrived at by combining several stocks or other investment vehicles and expressing their total values against its value as on a specified base year. It is...
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA’s mission is to protect America’s investors by making sure the securities industry...
NASDAQ OMX
OMX AB, formed out of the merger between OM AB and HEX plc, is the holding company for eight stock exchanges in Scandinavia and Nordic and Baltic countries. It is a Swedish-Finnish company whose...
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
A milestone for any company is the issuance of publicly traded stock. While the motivations for an initial public offering are straightforward, the mechanism for doing so is complex. An initial public offering, or...
SIX Swiss Exchange
Six Swiss Exchange is the leading Swiss stock exchange which is located in Zurich. Previously, it was renowned as SWS Swiss Exchange. Today, it is outperforming its rival, Berne Exchange, which is the other...
Public Market
A public market or simply market is where people engage in exchange of goods and services. A market is one of the varieties of systems, procedures, social relations and infrastructures. While earlier people used...
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. SEC Address: SEC Headquarters 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549...
Value stock
A value stock is a stock that is trading below its intrinsic value or real value. Real value is calculated based on many parameters like dividends, earnings, sales, etc. Although developed in the 1920s,...
Deutsche Borse
A stock market is a place where goods are exchanged and dealing is between the buyer and the seller. Here, the stocks are sometimes referred to the securities for the money. In other words,...
Stock
A stock, also called capital stock, of a business entity symbolizes the initial capital paid into or invested in the business by its promoters or founders. A stock stands as a guarantee for creditors...
NASDAQ
NASDAQ or National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations is an American stock exchange. NASDAQ has the distinction of being the world’s second largest stock exchange on the basis of market capitalization. New York...
Stock Market
Definition and Overview A stock market (equity market/stock exchange) is a place where ownership of both shares and derivatives changes at an agreed price. Both these legal entities are listed on the stock exchanges...
Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), also known as Tosho, is a Tokyo, Japan-based stock exchange. TSE is the world’s third largest stock exchange in terms of the total market capitalization of its listed companies....