Financial glossary

Finance terms explained simply: definition, concrete example and what they have to do with smart money.

What are a company's financial statements?What are blue chip stocks?What are growth stocks?What are interest rates (and why do they move stocks)?What are OTC markets?What are small cap stocks?What are value stocks?What does AUM (assets under management) mean?What does smart money mean?What is a 13F filing?What is a bear market?What is a benchmark?What is a bond?What is a broker?What is a bull market?What is a call option?What is a dark pool?What is a dividend?What is a hedge fund?What is a limit order?What is a market correction?What is a market maker?What is a market order?What is a market rally?What is a mutual fund?What is a put option?What is a recession?What is a SPAC?What is a stock buyback?What is a stock index?What is a stock split?What is a stock's beta?What is a stock?What is a stop loss?What is active management?What is after-hours trading?What is an activist investor?What is an earnings report?What is an ETF?What is an investment portfolio?What is an investment return?What is an IPO?What is an option?What is arbitrage?What is asset allocation?What is compound interest?What is delisting?What is diversification?What is dividend yield?What is dollar cost averaging (DCA)?What is EPS (earnings per share)?What is free cash flow?What is fundamental analysis?What is GDP and why does it matter for markets?What is guidance?What is inflation?What is insider trading?What is intrinsic value?What is leverage?What is liquidity?What is margin (in trading)?What is market capitalization?What is net income?What is passive investing?What is private equity?What is quantitative easing (QE)?What is rebalancing?What is revenue?What is ROE (return on equity)?What is SEC Form 4?What is short selling?What is technical analysis?What is the bid-ask spread?What is the Fed (Federal Reserve)?What is the margin of safety?What is the Nasdaq?What is the P/E ratio?What is the payout ratio?What is the S&P 500?What is the SEC?What is trading volume?What is venture capital?What is volatility?