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Price-Weighted Average

A method for calculating a stock market index whereby the investment in each component of a given market-representative portfolio is...

Profit Taking Correction

A market correction that results from investors' sales of securities to cash in on capital gains. This is usually the...

Plus Tick

A trade price that is higher than the immediately prior trade price. It constitutes a trade (tick) at a higher...

Profit Taking

The sale of a stock after its price has rapidly risen in order to cash in on capital gains. Profit...

Proxy

A written document (power of attorney) whereby a shareholder authorizes someone else, typically another shareholder or the company's management, to...

Deep Market

A market or market situation that is characterized by the existence of numerous, sizable bids and offers for a security....

Close Market

A market situation that is characterized by a narrow bid-ask spread, i.e., a narrow, or narrowing, spread between the bid...

Technical Analysis

The study of market action, mainly by using charts for the purpose of forecasting future market trends with respect to...

Primary Pegged Order

A pegged order that is indexed to the national best bid and offer (NBBO) on the same side of the...

Pegged-To-Market Order

An order (market order) whereby an investor instructs a broker to buy or sell securities at a price/ rate pegged...