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A place where high-pressure salespeople use banks of telephones to call lists of potential investors (known as a "sucker lists") in order to peddle speculative, even fraudulent, secu[阅读全文]
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A standardized number of shares defined by a stock exchange as a trading unit. In most cases, this means 100 shares. The purpose of a board lot is to avoid "odd lots" and to facilita[阅读全文]
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A slang term used to describe a perfect stock or investment. In the 1979 hit movie "10", actress Bo Derek portrayed the "perfect woman", or "the perfect 10".
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Stock of a well-established and financially sound company that has demonstrated its ability to pay dividends in both good and bad times.
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Requests for information sent out by the Securities and Exchange Commission to market makers.
Taobiz explains Blue Sheets
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A trader who has another source of income, and does not trade as a means, but rather as a savings plan, or bonus, etc. This person typically does not trade in large volumes, leaning mo[阅读全文]
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A nationally recognized, well-established and financially sound company. Blue chips generally sell high-quality, widely accepted products and services. Blue chip companies are known to[阅读全文]
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A term in technical analysis that refers to a sharp price increase that comes after a long period of price appreciation, and is followed by a fall in the price. A blowoff is seen as a [阅读全文]
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A record of trades and the details of the trades made over a period of time (usually one trading day). The details of a trade will include such things as the time, price, order size an[阅读全文]
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The difference between the market value of a security and its sale price when transacted under a block trade. Each blockage discount is negotiated by the involved institutional investo[阅读全文]
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A wholesale trading facility that allows traders to buy or sell large numbers of securities bilaterally outside of the public market. Because trades conducted in a block trading facili[阅读全文]
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An order/trade submitted for sale or purchase of a large quantity of securities. Also known as "Block Order".
Taobiz explains Block Trade
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A signficant order placed for sale or purchase of a large number of securities. Block orders are often used by institutional investors.
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When brokerage firms ensure anonymity to both the buyer and the seller in a transaction. In the ordinary course of securities trading, most brokerage transactions are "blind". Except[阅读全文]
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A theory that postulates that investors prefer dividends from a stock to potential capital gains because of the inherent uncertainty of the latter. Based on the adage that a bi[阅读全文]
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One of Spain's four major securities exchanges. Founded July 1890 and opened for trading in 1891, the Bilbao Stock Exchange (in Spanish, the "Bolsa de Bilbao") supports the financia[阅读全文]
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Old industrial companies in gritty industries (such as mining, steel and oil) and as a result, they tend to be unpopular stocks with investors.
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The strategy of manipulating a company's income statement to make poor results look even worse. The big bath is often implemented in a bad year to enhance artificially next year's ea[阅读全文]