Stock market glossary

Plain-English definitions of the terms you meet as an investor.

A

After-Market Trading What is after-market trading? Annual General Meeting What is an annual general meeting? Annual Report What is an annual report?

B

Bankruptcy What is bankruptcy? Bear What does bear mean? Beat the Market What does beating the market mean? Beta What does beta mean? Brokerage Fee What is a brokerage fee? Buffett Indicator What is the Buffett Indicator? Bull What does bull mean?

C

Call Option What is a call option? CFD What is a CFD? Correction What is a correction? Currency Conversion Fee What is a currency conversion fee? Cyclical Stocks What are cyclical stocks?

D

DAX What is the DAX? Defensive Stocks What are defensive stocks? Dividend What is a dividend? Dow Jones What is the Dow Jones?

E

Emerging Markets What are emerging markets? EPS What does EPS mean? ETF What is an ETF?

F

FAANG What does FAANG mean? Fund Management Company What is a fund management company? Fundamental Analysis What is fundamental analysis?

G

Growth Stocks What are growth stocks? Guidance Revision What is a guidance revision?

I

Investment Fund What is an investment fund? IPO What is an IPO? ISIN What is an ISIN?

L

Leverage What is leverage?

N

NFT What is an NFT?

O

Organic Growth What is organic growth?

P

P/E Ratio What is the P/E ratio? PMI What is the PMI? Portfolio What is a portfolio? Pre-Market Trading What is pre-market trading? Price Target What is a price target? Put Option What is a put option?

R

Recession What is a recession? Return What is a return? Reverse Stock Split What is a reverse stock split? ROE What does ROE mean?

S

S&P 500 What is the S&P 500? Sectors What are sectors? Share What is a share? Share Buyback What is a share buyback? Share Issue What is a share issue? Short Selling What is short selling? Short Squeeze What is a short squeeze? Small, Mid & Large Cap What do small, mid and large cap mean? SPAC What is a SPAC? Stock Exchange What is a stock exchange? Stock Index What is a stock index? Stock Split What is a stock split? Stop Loss What is a stop loss?

T

Technical Analysis What is technical analysis?

V

Value Stocks What are value stocks? Value Trap What is a value trap? VIX What is the VIX? Volatility What is volatility?

W

Wall Street What is Wall Street? Warren Buffett Who is Warren Buffett?