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Active Trading Terms

  1. Open-Market Transaction

  2. Opening Price

  3. Opening Range

  4. Operating Leverage

  5. Optimization

  6. Option Margin

  7. Order

  8. Oscillator

  9. OsMA

  10. Outside Days

  11. Outside Reversal

  12. Overbought

  13. Overleveraged

  14. Overreaction

  15. Oversold

  16. Ovoboby

  17. P-Test

  18. Pairs Trade

  19. Panic Buying

  20. Panic Selling

  21. Parabolic Indicator

  22. Paris Stock Exchange (PAR) .PA

  23. Passive Investing

  24. Passive Loss

  25. Pattern

  26. Pattern Day Trader

  27. Pennant

  28. Percentage Price Oscillator - PPO

  29. Phi Ellipses

  30. PHI-Ellipse

  31. Piercing Pattern

  32. Pilot Fishing

  33. Pivot

  34. Pivot Point

  35. Plaza Accord

  36. Point & Figure Chart

  37. Polarized Fractal Efficiency - PFE

  38. Political Arbitrage Activity

  39. Polynomial Trending

  40. Portfolio Margin

  41. Portfolio Weight

  42. Position Sizing

  43. Position Trader

  44. Positive Directional Indicator - +DI

  45. Positive Feedback

  46. Positive Volume Index - PVI

  47. Preferred Provider Organization – PPO

  48. Price Action

  49. Price By Volume Chart - PBV

  50. Price Channel

  51. Price Creep

  52. Price Efficiency

  53. Price Persistence

  54. Price Rate Of Change - ROC

  55. Price Target

  56. Print

  57. Privilege Dealer

  58. Pro-Forma Forecast

  59. Problem Loan

  60. Profit Target

  61. Program Trading

  62. Protective Stop

  63. Public-Private Investment Program - PPIP

  64. Pullback

  65. Pulling In Their Horns

  66. Put-Call Ratio

  67. Pyramiding

  68. Qstick Indicator

  69. Quantitative Analysis

  70. Quantitative Trading

  71. Quarter Over Quarter - Q/Q

  72. Quote Stuffing

  73. Rally

  74. Range

  75. Range-Bound Trading

  76. Rate Of Change

  77. Rational Behavior

  78. Rational Choice Theory

  79. Reaction

  80. Real Body

  81. Real Economic Growth Rate

  82. Record High

  83. Rectangle

  84. Rectangles

  85. Red Candlestick

  86. Reflexivity

  87. Regret Avoidance

  88. Regulation T - Reg T

  89. Regulation U

  90. Relative Strength

  91. Relative Strength Index - RSI

  92. Relative Vigor Index - RVI

  93. Remargining

  94. Renko Chart

  95. Resistance (Resistance Level)

  96. Retracement

  97. Return On Capital Gains

  98. Return On Risk-Adjusted Capital - RORAC

  99. Reversal

  100. Reversal Amount

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Hot Definitions

  1. Validation Period

    The amount of time necessary for the premium on an insurance policy to cover the commissions, the cost of investigation, medical exams and other expenses associated with the issuance of the policy.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.
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