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Top 30 Trading Terms
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” The Trend is your Friend “
Jargons
| 1 | Long | Buy |
| 2 | Short | Sell |
| 3 | Rally | Prices are going up or gone up |
| 4 | Tank | Came down / Dropping |
| 5 | Bull | Investments are going up or expected to go up |
| 6 | Bear | Investments are going down or expected to go down |
| 7 | Decline | Prices are coming down or came down |
| 8 | Hedge | An action taken to reduce or protect price movement of the investment |
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Execution Terms
| 9 | Buy | To buy |
| 10 | Sell | To sell |
| 11 | Quote | A buyer or seller putting up a price, which is known as the quote |
| 12 | Bid | Prices queuing to buy |
| 13 | Offer | Prices queuing to sell |
| 14 | Spread | Price difference between Bid and Offer |
| 15 | Market Order | Buy or Sell at Market Price (whatever price that is first in queue) |
| 16 | Limit Order | Buy or Sell Price at a pre-determined price |
| 17 | Stop | Buy or Sell to exit an existing trade or investment |
| 18 | Stop-Loss | An action to exit trade when the trade or investment has negative returns |
| 19 | Profit-Take | An action to exit trade when the trade or investment has positive returns |
| 20 | GTC | Stands for Good-Till-Cancel. An order to buy or sell a security that will remain until the trader cancels it. |
| 21 | OTC | Stands for Over-the-Counter. Any trades that is private between two parties by a dealer, that are not transacted via a regulated exchange |
| 22 | Settlement | The formal completion of the traded transaction. Example, T+3 which means settlement of cash or securities in 3 working days. |
| 23 | Margin Call | Trading capital that has gone below the required amount due to negative price movements or change in margin level |
Trading Instruments
| 24 | Stocks | Ownership of a company that can be determined by quantity. You can own 1,000 shares of HSBC Bank |
| 25 | Forex | Stands for Foreign Exchange |
| 26 | Call Option | An option to buy at an agreed price ($) and date, only if the option buyer wants to buy |
| 27 | Put Option | An option to sell at an agreed price ($) and date, only if the option buyer wants to sell |
Others
| 28 | Technical Analysis | Use past behaviors to predict future behaviors through the use of charts, trendlines and related analysis |
| 29 | Value Investing | An investment style that focus on fundamental analysis. Make popular by Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. |
| 30 | Index or Indices | A tracking calculation of a selection of stocks, bonds, or any investments. Examples include the Dow Jones Index, Straits Times Index, Hang Seng Index |
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