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  2. Lapse rate - Wikipedia

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    The environmental lapse rate (ELR), is the actual rate of decrease of temperature with altitude in the atmosphere at a given time and location. [6] The ELR is the observed lapse rate, and is to be distinguished from the adiabatic lapse rate which is a theoretical construct. The ELR is forced towards the adiabatic lapse rate whenever air is ...

  3. Stock duration - Wikipedia

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    Duration is a measure of the price sensitivity of a stock to changes in the long term interest rate, i.e., the longer the duration, the more sensitive the stock is to interest rates. In U.S. stock markets, an SEC rule adoption in 1982 (rule 10b-18) that allowed discretionary stock buybacks has distorted the calculation of duration based on ...

  4. Normal backwardation - Wikipedia

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    Normal backwardation, also sometimes called backwardation, is the market condition where the price of a commodity's forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. [1]

  5. Stock market prediction - Wikipedia

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    The efficacy of technical analysis is disputed by the efficient-market hypothesis, which states that stock market prices are essentially unpredictable, [5] and research on whether technical analysis offers any benefit has produced mixed results. [6] [7] [8] Technical analysts or chartists are usually less concerned with any of a company's ...

  6. Stock valuation - Wikipedia

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    Stock valuation is the method of calculating theoretical values of companies and their stocks.The main use of these methods is to predict future market prices, or more generally, potential market prices, and thus to profit from price movement – stocks that are judged undervalued (with respect to their theoretical value) are bought, while stocks that are judged overvalued are sold, in the ...

  7. Volume analysis - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] Volume is a measure of the number of shares of an asset (such as a stock or bond) that are traded in a given period of time. [1] As one of the oldest market indicators used for analysis, sudden changes in volume are often the result of news-related events. [4]

  8. Stock option expensing - Wikipedia

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    The intrinsic value method, associated with Accounting Principles Board Opinion 25, calculates the intrinsic value as the difference between the market value of the stock and the exercise price of the option at the date the option is issued (the "grant date"). Since companies generally issue stock options with exercise prices which are equal to ...

  9. Capital asset pricing model - Wikipedia

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    An estimation of the CAPM and the security market line (purple) for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 3 years for monthly data.. In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a model used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, to make decisions about adding assets to a well-diversified portfolio.