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t. e. In finance, being short in an asset means investing in such a way that the investor will profit if the market value of the asset falls. This is the opposite of the more common long position, where the investor will profit if the market value of the asset rises. An investor that sells an asset short is, as to that asset, a short seller.
Beta (finance) Expected change in price of a stock relative to the whole market. In finance, the beta (β or market beta or beta coefficient) is a statistic that measures the expected increase or decrease of an individual stock price in proportion to movements of the stock market as a whole. Beta can be used to indicate the contribution of an ...
A stop price is the price in a stop order that triggers the creation of a market order. In the case of a Sell on Stop order, a market sell order is triggered when the market price reaches or falls below the stop price. For Buy on Stop orders, a market buy order is triggered when the market price of the stock rises to or above the stop price. In ...
Being long a stock means that you own it and will profit if the stock rises. Being short a stock means that you have a negative position in the stock and will profit if the stock falls. Being long ...
Trading curb. A trading curb (also known as a circuit breaker[1] in Wall Street parlance) is a financial regulatory instrument that is in place to prevent stock market crashes from occurring, and is implemented by the relevant stock exchange organization. Since their inception, circuit breakers have been modified to prevent both speculative ...
Order (exchange) An order is an instruction to buy or sell on a trading venue such as a stock market, bond market, commodity market, financial derivative market or cryptocurrency exchange. These instructions can be simple or complicated, and can be sent to either a broker or directly to a trading venue via direct market access.
An ETF’s return depends on what it’s invested in. An ETF’s return is the weighted average of all its holdings. So if it owns many strong stocks, the ETF will rise. If it owns many poorly ...
Price limit. A price limit is an established amount in which a price may increase or decrease in any single trading day [1] from the previous day's settlement price . In financial and commodity markets, prices are only permitted to rise or fall by a certain number of ticks (or by a certain percentage) per trading session. [1] Similarly, index ...