摘要:Term used to describe the practice of a labor union requiring an employer to hire more workers than necessary for a particular task.

Featherbedding has developed over time as unions resp[阅读全文]

摘要:A slang phrase referring to a tactic a hedge fund would use to try to mislead other funds that attempt to mimic its trades.
By making small trades but enthusiastically purporting these trades,[阅读全文]

摘要:A buzzword describing fraudulent activities performed by corporations in order to falsify their financial statements. Typically, cooking the books involves augmenting financial data to yield previousl[阅读全文]

摘要:A market theory that suggests that when a company reveals bad news to the public, there may be many more related negative events that have yet to be revealed. The term comes from the common belief tha[阅读全文]

摘要:英文名称：Chasing the Market 中文名称：跟市指当股市暴涨时，为避免股价升至更高以比预期高的价格买进股票，抑或指当股市暴跌，为避免股价跌至更低以比预期低的价格卖出股票。Entering[阅读全文]

摘要:When a money market mutual fund's net asset value (NAV) drops below $1 per share. Money market funds aren't federally insured like bank deposits; therefore, fund assets have an implied promise to pr[阅读全文]

摘要:To undertake an impossible task or project or to make a task or project unnecessarily difficult. Boiling the ocean generally means to go overboard.

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摘要:A stock that is believed to be a leading indicator of the direction of a sector, industry or market as a whole. Bellwether stocks are often used to determine the direction in which an industry or mark[阅读全文]

摘要:An investor's failure to avoid trading in the stocks that are part of a block and also within a specified amount of time. Bagging the street refers to a situation where an investor or a trader trades[阅读全文]

摘要:A slang term that refers to the representation of the basic components of a business model excluding any fine details. It incorporates only the core ideas and success factors of the business. The name[阅读全文]

摘要:A market theory that states stock prices and aspirin production are inversely related. The Aspirin count theory is a lagging indicator and actually hasn't been formally tested, so it is more a humoro[阅读全文]

摘要:A market-wide directional movement, or a market condition in which most stocks and sectors are moving in the same direction. These movements are usually caused by market-wide events.

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摘要:A technical analysis theory/indicator based on the assumption that the small individual investor is always wrong. Therefore, if odd lot sales are up - that is small investors are selling stock - it is[阅读全文]

摘要:A trading strategy that was developed in 1956 by former ballroom dancer Nicolas Darvas. Darvas' trading technique involved buying into stocks that were trading at new 52-week highs with correspondin[阅读全文]

摘要:The theory used when many investors have taken a short position in a stock. It is based on the idea that the price of the stock must eventually go up because those short positions must eventually be c[阅读全文]

摘要:A technical analysis theory that predicts the strength of the market according to the number of stocks that advance or decline in a particular trading day.
The breadth of market indicator is us[阅读全文]

摘要:A notion that an investment firm that passes all capital gains, interest and dividends on to its customers/shareholders shouldn't be levied at the corporate level like most regular companies are. [阅读全文]

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A document published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that provides taxpayers with information on how to determine the fair market value (FMV) or appraisal value for property donated to a qual[阅读全文]

摘要:A document published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) providing information about the tax credit available to the elderly or the disabled. Qualifying individuals are U.S. citizens or resident ali[阅读全文]

摘要:A document published by the Internal Revenue Service that details how members of the clergy or other religious workers are to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. These two types of taxes are colle[阅读全文]