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Soft Market

A market in which there are more potential sellers than buyers, i.e., supply is greater than demand, and as a...

Snowballing

The effect that arises from the activation of stop orders in a declining or advancing market, leading to further downward...

Secular Bull Market Cycle

A bull market cycle that spans or falls within a very long upward trend. Such a cycle features the characteristics...

Secular Bear Market

A secular market that is characterized by a very long downward trend. A secular bear market combines the characteristics of...

Secular Market

A market that moves in the same direction (up or down) for a relatively very long period of time. It...

Slicing

The process of splitting up a large trading order (e.g., block trade) into a number of smaller chunks, in order...

Sponsored Access

A form of direct market access (DMA) that is characterized by highest level of independence, i.e., access does not require...

SOR

It stands for smart order router; a coding mechanism that slices a trading order according to the rules set out...

Small-Firm Effect

A hypothesis that holds that investing in small firms (i.e., those with small market capitalization- hence dubbed: small caps) will,...

Short Dated

A short-dated contract or instrument is one with a maturity between three months and one year (or two years in...