{"id":8764,"date":"2013-04-09T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:44:29","slug":"stock-market-terminology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/stock-market-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Market Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Stock Market Terminology<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Stock market:<\/strong><\/span> A stock market is a place for trading of a company stocks and derivatives at an agreed price. It is the place or a platform where stocks are bought and sold.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Stock exchange: <\/strong><\/span>It facilitates trading for brokers and traders. A broker acts as a mediator between an exchange and a trader.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Stocks and shares:<\/strong><\/span> \u2018Stocks\u2019 and \u2018shares\u2019 are commonly interchanged terms. While both of the terms refer to the share in the ownership of the company, there is a small distinction. \u2018Stock\u2019 is a general term describing the ownership certificate of any company, while \u2018shares\u2019 refers to the ownership certificate of a particular company. For instance, if one says that he own \u2018stocks\u2019 it refers to the overall ownership in one or more companies but when he says that he owns \u2018shares\u2019, he is referring to a particular company&#8217;s stocks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bull:<\/strong><\/span> The investor or trader who buys shares in the expectation that the market price of the company&#8217;s share will increase.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bear:<\/strong><\/span> The investors or traders who sell stocks first at higher price and then purchases it at lower price to earn profit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bull market:<\/strong><\/span> Market condition when the market is rising and buyers are more than the sellers. This trend is called \u2018bullish.\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bear market:<\/strong><\/span> Market situation where the price of the securities is falling for a prolonged period. The market is called bear market and this trend is called \u2018bearish.\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Correction:<\/strong><\/span> A correction takes place when market indices rise rapidly for few days and then retrace the gains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Closing price:<\/strong><\/span> The last trading price of a security at the end of trading day\/session.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Circuit breaker:<\/strong><\/span> When price of a stock increases or decreases by a certain percentage in a particular day, it hits the circuit breaker. When the circuit breaker is hit, trading in that stock is ceased for some time or that whole particular day depending on the fluctuation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Day trading or Intraday trading:<\/strong> <\/span>Day trading is buying and selling a security on the same day. In day trading the traders square off their positions on the same day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Long:<\/strong><\/span> Buying a stock means to go long on the stock. Traders, who expect the price of security to rise up, go for long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Short:<\/strong><\/span> Short selling means selling of borrowed stock in an expectation that the price will drop and then one will buy it back at cheaper rate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Stop loss:<\/strong><\/span> Stop loss is used to limit the possible loss of trader. It is the price where a trader exits his or her position in case of adverse price movement. 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