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Flashcards by ELITE IIVII, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ELITE IIVII
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| Question | Answer |
| Last Price | The most recent price that the stock has traded at. The last price, however, is not the price you will be paying for the stock. |
| The Bid | The highest price a buyer is currently willing to pay for a stock. |
| The Ask | The lowest price at which a seller is currently willing to sell the stock at. When placing a market order, you are buying or selling a stock at the best available price. |
| Today's Change | The change in price (and the percentage change) compared to yesterday's closing price. |
| Previous Day's Close | This is the price of the stock for the last trade of the previous day. |
| Today's Open | The first price at which this stock traded when the markets opened this morning. Note that stocks do not open at the same price that they closed at the day before due to after hours trading. |
| Volume | This indicates the number of shares that have traded hands today. Some stocks may trade millions of shares each day, and others only trade a few hundred or even zero (the higher the volume, the more liquid the stock is). |
| 52 Week High | This is the highest price the stock has traded at during the last 52 weeks. |
| 52 Week Low | This is the lowest price the stock has traded at during the last 52 weeks. The 52 week high/low allow you to compare the current price to its 52-week range. |
| Annual Dividends | The amount, in dollars, the company will (but not obligated) pay to shareholders on a regular basis (usually monthly or quarterly). |
| Annual Dividend Yield | This is an important measure of return of the stock and is calculated by dividing the annual dividend amount by the current stock price. If the stock is at $10 and the company pay out a cash dividend of $0.50 per share, then the annual dividend yield is 5%. |
| EPS | The company's earnings (profit) per share. It is calculated by dividing the company's most recent annual income by the number of shares outstanding. |
| Support | Support is the price level at which demand is thought to be strong enough to prevent the price from declining further. |
| Resistance | Resistance is the price level at which selling is thought to be strong enough to prevent the price from rising further |
| Trading Range | A trading range is a period of time when prices move within a relatively tight range. |
| Breakout | When the price breaks out of the trading range, above or below, it signals that a winner has emerged. A break above is a victory for the bulls (demand) and a break below is a victory for the bears (supply). |
| Pivot Points | Pivots Points are significant levels chartists can use to determine directional movement and potential support/resistance levels. Pivot Points use the prior period's high, low, and close to estimate future support and resistance levels. |
| The Bid | Bid price is the highest offer that a buyer has made for a particular security. The option chain will always show the highest offer for a Bid. |
| The Ask | Ask price is the lowest price/offer that a seller is willing to sell that security for. Ask price is also referred to as “offer price”. |
| Bid-Ask Spread | The bid-ask spread is essentially the difference between the highest price that a buyer is willing to pay for an asset and the lowest price that a seller is willing to accept to sell it. |
| Technical Analysis | Usually a short term methodology, by trading on market trends technical analysis is short-term focused, mainly focuses on internal market data. |
| Fundamental Analysis | Usually a a long term investment strategy, by pricing on intrinsic values fundamental analysis is working towards the long-term value of a company. It seeks to forecast stock prices on the basis of economic, industry and company statistics. |
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