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Buy Scale Order

An order, specifically a scaled order (scale order) that provides for the purchase of a certain number of securities (e.g.,...

Bull Market

A market or a period of time that is characterized by increasing prices (of securities and other types of assets),...

Buy Order

An order (market order) that represents an instruction to a broker to buy a certain number of tradable securities (shares,...

Book Building

A technique used to place securities on the market. It is the process that involves  collection of information about investors’...

Broker

An individual or firm (brokerage) that that transacts in securities – stocks, bonds, mutual fund shares, exchange-traded fund (ETF) shares,...

Broad-Based Market Index

An index that is composed of securities that represent the overall market. The index includes a sufficiently diverse set of...

Buttonwood Agreement

An agreement that was signed, in 1792, by 25 New York stockbrokers and merchants to establish an investment community that…

Buy-Side Trader

A trader who buys exchange services from a sell-side trader (s). Examples of buy-side traders are individual investors and institutional…

Breadth Index

An indicator that calculates for each trading day the net advances or declines in stocks on an exchange. A strong…

Bubble

A market anomaly that arises when the market price of an asset (stocks, real estate, etc) begins to divert from…