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Stocks Terms

  1. Turtle

  2. U

  3. Unchanged

  4. Underlying

  5. Underperform

  6. Underweight

  7. Universe Of Securities

  8. Unlisted Security

  9. Unseasoned Security

  10. Up Volume

  11. Uptick

  12. V

  13. Valoren Number

  14. Value Change

  15. Value Investing

  16. Value Line Index

  17. Value Stock

  18. Value Trap

  19. Volatility Quote Trading

  20. Volume

  21. Volume Of Trade

  22. W

  23. War Babies

  24. War Risk

  25. Wash

  26. Watch List

  27. Watered Stock

  28. Weak Shorts

  29. Weekend Effect

  30. Weighted

  31. Weighted Average

  32. Weighted Average Market Capitalization

  33. Whipsaw

  34. Whisper Stock

  35. White Elephant

  36. Widow-And-Orphan Stock

  37. Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index - TMWX

  38. Win/Loss Ratio

  39. Windfall Profits

  40. X

  41. XDIS

  42. XRT

  43. Y

  44. Yard

  45. Year To Date - YTD

  46. Yield

  47. Z

  48. Zakat

  49. Zero Minus Tick

  50. Zero Plus Tick

  51. Zombies

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Hot Definitions

  1. Winner's Curse

    Because of incomplete information, emotions or any other number of factors regarding the item being auctioned, bidders can have a difficult time determining the item's intrinsic value. As a result, the largest overestimation of an item's value ends up winning the auction.

  2. Glocalization

    A combination of the words "globalization" and "localization" used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally, but is also fashioned to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market.

  3. Disaster Loss

    A special type of tax-deductible loss, similar to a casualty loss, where a loss has been incurred by taxpayers who reside in an area that has been designated as a federal disaster area by the President.

  4. Fool In The Shower

    The notion that changes or policies designed to alter the course of the economy should be done slowly, rather than all at once.

  5. Pattern Day Trader

    An SEC designation for traders who trade the same security four or more times per day (buys and sells) over a five-day period, and for whom same-day trades make up at least 6% of their activity for that period.

  6. Cost-Push Inflation

    A phenomenon in which the general price levels rise (inflation) due to increases in the cost of wages and raw materials.
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