A market practice whereby prices are bid up or down on purpose in order to generate stop orders. Professional traders...

A cross (a type of crossing pools) that performs an auction at preset times. It submits orders (bids and offers)...

The ratio that relates short interest to the average daily volume over a given period of time (typically 30 days)....

A short-term trading strategy that capitalizes on price changes during the day (trading session). Differently stated, scalping the market involves...

The offer to sell to the public a large amount of stock obtained from other than a public offering (such...

A market situation that occurs when short sellers, panicked because of rising prices, attempt to buy back the shares they...

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

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

A share (or broadly a security) that is widely perceived by the market to be a representative of a specific...

A stock (or broadly a security) that is widely perceived by the market to be a representative of a specific...