Glossary of stock market terms

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Following is a glossary of stock market terms .

  • Bear market: a general decline in the stock market over a period of time. See Market trend.
  • Bull market: a period of generally rising prices. See Market trend.
  • Closing print: a report of the final prices for the day on a stock exchange.
  • Market top: the highest point of trading before the market shifts from a bull market to a bear market.
  • Market trend: the tendency of financial markets to move in a particular direction over time.[1]
  • Runoff or run-off: the period at the end of a stock market trading session originally reserved for printing end-of-trading share prices and values onto ticker tape;[2] now used to describe trades at the end of a session that may not be announced or reported until the start of the next session.
  • Trade (financial instrument), the buying and selling of financial instruments.

References

  1. ^ Start Market Course, George Fontanills, Tommy Gentile, John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2001, p. 91.
  2. ^ See e.g. Investopedia definition of runoff
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