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Stock Market Basics
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1. Difference between closing price of previous day and current day
Bear market
Preferred Stock
unseasoned equity offering
Net change
2. The person(s) resposible for implementing a fund's investing strategy and managing its portfolio trading activities
Stop order
Fund manager
Ticker
rights offer
3. Securities market where dealers buy and sell securities for their own inventories; NASDAQ is one example
Stock
IPO [Initial Public Offering]
NYSE minimum requirements
over-the counter market
4. Once the stock price reaches the preset stop price the order is converted ito a limit order
stop-limit order
Securities
Dow Jones idustrial average
No-load
5. A market characterized by rising prices for securities
limit v. stop orders
Potential loss
red herring
Bull market
6. Buys & sells for clients at a reduced commission. They offer little or no investment advice.
P / E
firm commitment underwriting
Stock split
Discount broker
7. Financing for new - often high-risk ventures
venture capital VC
limit v. stop orders
Stock
over-the counter market
8. A stock selling for less that $1/share; usually high risk
Stock
red herring
NYSE Hybrid Market
Penny stock
9. Stop order is where the customer specifies a stop price in which once it's reached - it is converted into a market order
three ways of the secondary market
Penny stock
rights offer
limit v. stop orders
10. That part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders
AMEX
Stock
Dividend
Blue chip stock
11. A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation. There is no guarantee of making money with a stock.
Dow Jones idustrial average
rights offer
rights offer
Stock
12. Another name for IPO - b/c shares are not available to the public before the IPO
NASDAQ
unseasoned equity offering
Net change
Stock broker
13. 1directly with other investors - indirectly through a broker who arranges transactions with others - directly with a dealer who buys and sells securities from inventory
Limit order
stop-limit order
three ways of the secondary market
Dividend
14. A group of underwriters formed to share the risk and to help sell an issue
stop-sell v. stop-buy
syndicate
three ways of the secondary market
Ticker
15. Equity financing for nonpublic companies
private equity
Dividend
Stock
Limit order
16. A person who buys or sells stocks for another in exchange for a commission
syndicate
NYSE minimum requirements
Stock broker
Fund manager
17. NASDAQ was opened to his which is a website that allowed investors to trade directly with one another;
Fund manager
electronic communications networks (ECNs)
dutch auction underwriting
AMEX
18. Also known as secondary and follow-on offering
electronic communications networks (ECNs)
seasoned equity offering (SEO)
over-the counter market
venture capital VC
19. Bid- price dealer is willing to pay - ask- price dealer will sell at
Portfolio
bid v. ask
third market v. fourth market
Limit order
20. Securities or SEO offered to the public on a first-come first serve basis
Bond
Appreciation
IPO [Initial Public Offering]
general cash offer
21. New York Stock Exchange
venture capital VC
dealer v. broker
OTC [Over-the-counter]
NYSE
22. NASDAQ was opened to his which is a website that allowed investors to trade directly with one another;
electronic communications networks (ECNs)
Bull market
AMEX
Fund manager
23. Trading that occurs off the exchange on which the security is listed and fourth market is the direct trading of exchange-listed securities maong investors
rights offer
seasoned equity offering (SEO)
third market v. fourth market
bid v. ask
24. Stock from nationally recognized companies which dominate the industry often having annual revenue of one billion or more
Stock split
AMEX
third market v. fourth market
Blue chip stock
25. New York Stock Exchange
Stock broker
NYSE
firm commitment underwriting
No-load
26. Stop order is where the customer specifies a stop price in which once it's reached - it is converted into a market order
No-load
limit v. stop orders
NYSE
Portfolio
27. A certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money
Bond
Stop order
AMEX
NYSE minimum requirements
28. Difference between closing price of previous day and current day
bid v. ask
limit v. stop orders
Net change
Common stock
29. The market in which securities that are not listed on exchanges are traded
OTC [Over-the-counter]
third market v. fourth market
rights offer
dealer v. broker
30. All of the investments - including stocks - bonds - mutual funds - options - and commodities - that are traded
electronic communications networks (ECNs)
Securities
Appreciation
venture capital VC
31. Price/earnings
P / E
Portfolio
three ways of the secondary market
Dow Jones idustrial average
32. Detailed acct of company's financial position - its operations - and its investment plans for the future which is submitted to SEC for approval
Net change
limit v. stop orders
prospectus
over-the counter market
33. A list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution
NYSE Hybrid Market
Portfolio
seasoned equity offering (SEO)
Bear market
34. The person(s) resposible for implementing a fund's investing strategy and managing its portfolio trading activities
Limit order
bid v. ask
Fund manager
third market v. fourth market
35. A market characterized by falling prices for securities
OTC [Over-the-counter]
Bond
No-load
Bear market
36. Mutual fund in which shares are sold without a commission or sales charge
No-load
seasoned equity offering (SEO)
Preferred Stock
Stop order
37. 1directly with other investors - indirectly through a broker who arranges transactions with others - directly with a dealer who buys and sells securities from inventory
three ways of the secondary market
P / E
Ticker
third market v. fourth market
38. Bid- price dealer is willing to pay - ask- price dealer will sell at
IPO [Initial Public Offering]
Market order
bid v. ask
dealer v. broker
39. NASDAQ is a computer network with no physical location and has a multiple market maker system rather than a specialist system
Ticker
NYSE v. NASDAQ
dutch auction underwriting
red herring
40. A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation. There is no guarantee of making money with a stock.
three ways of the secondary market
Dow Jones idustrial average
NYSE
Stock
41. When issuer sells the entire issue to the underwriters
venture capital VC
Bear market
Dividend
firm commitment underwriting
42. Buys & sells for clients at a reduced commission. They offer little or no investment advice.
Dow Jones idustrial average
NASDAQ
Discount broker
private equity
43. A list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution
OTC [Over-the-counter]
Portfolio
NASDAQ
No-load
44. Underwriter doesn't guarantee any particular amount of money to the issuer
rights offer
stop-sell v. stop-buy
best efforts underwriting
rights offer
45. Financing for new - often high-risk ventures
seasoned equity offering (SEO)
venture capital VC
P / E
OTC [Over-the-counter]
46. A market characterized by rising prices for securities
Limit order
Bull market
Ticker
NYSE v. NASDAQ
47. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter
Bear market
Stop order
NASDAQ
Mutual fund
48. Also known as secondary and follow-on offering
Stock broker
Bull market
NASDAQ
seasoned equity offering (SEO)
49. An order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level
electronic communications networks (ECNs)
Bear market
Appreciation
Stop order
50. Mutual fund in which shares are sold without a commission or sales charge
Mutual fund
private equity
No-load
private equity
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