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Trading Halts and Delays

A set of mechanisms that are activated and put in place to mark and enforce a temporary pause of trading...

Wash Sales

A wash sale occurs when a trader sells or trades securities at a loss, and within 30 days before or...

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,...

Sell Order

An order (market order) that represents an instruction to a broker to sell 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’...

Reverse Book Building

A book building that is used by an issuer to buy back shares from existing shareholders in the market. The...

Accelerated Book Building

A book building that completes in a very short period of time (e.g., a few hours). Book-building is a technique...

COP

An acronym for calculated opening price; the trading price where the most securities (e.g., shares) trade in a given market....

Calculated Opening Price

The trading price where the most securities (e.g., shares) trade in a given market. In other words, it is the...