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| 1 | Brokerage - a financial company that allows you to buy and sell stocks | |
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| 3 | Brokerage account - the account you put money into to buy and sell stocks with | |
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| 5 | Commissions - fees that most brokerages charge you when you buy or sell stocks | |
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| 7 | Account minimums - a minimum amount of money that you have to put into your account when you open a brokerage account | |
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| 9 | Market buy/sell - a buy or sell order that executes immediately at whatever the current price is, or whatever is the closest you can get to the current price | |
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| 11 | Limit buy/sell - a buy or sell order that only executes at a predetermined price or better | |
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| 13 | Stop loss - an order that becomes a market sell when a stock reaches a predetermined price | |
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| 15 | Stop limit - an order that becomes a limit order when a stock reaches a certain price, the price at which it becomes a limit and the price of the limit order itself are set separately | |
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| 17 | Liquidity - a measure of how easily/quickly a stock can be bought or sold without drastically affecting its price | |
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| 19 | Trading hours - 9:30 AM EST - 4:00 PM EST, Monday to Friday | |
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| 21 | Pre-market hours - 4:00 AM EST - 9:30 AM EST, Monday to Friday | |
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| 23 | Post-market hours (after hours) - 4:00 PM EST - 8:00 PM EST, Monday to Friday | |
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| 25 | Extended-hours trading - trading that happens in premarket or postmarket hours | |
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| 27 | Margin trading - borrowing money from a brokerage to trade stocks with, requires a margin account | |
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| 29 | DD - due diligence, doing your own research on a company before you buy its stock (otherwise known as not being a fucking retard) | |
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| 31 | Fundamental analysis - the practice of evaluating a company's financial health as well as various other factors such as overall economic and market performance to determine the intrinsic value of a stock, an alien concept to cryptofags | |
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| 33 | Technical analysis - the practice of using the historical trends of a stock's price to speculate on how its price will change in the future | |
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| 35 | Scalping - a trading strategy based on capitalizing on small changes in share price that occur within minutes and slowly accumulating small gains | |
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| 37 | Day trading - a trading strategy based on capitalizing on intraday fluctuations in share price | |
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| 39 | Swing trading - a trading strategy based on capitalizing on short term changes in share price that occur within a period of days or weeks | |
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| 41 | Position trading - a trading strategy based on capitalizing on long term changes in share price that occur over a period of weeks, months, or years, the closest thing to long term investing that's still considered trading | |
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| 43 | Long-term investing - the practice of buying shares of safe, proven companies and holding them for years or decades | |
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| 45 | Growth investing - the practice of investing in a company based on how fast its earnings are growing | |
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| 47 | Value investing - the practice of investing in a company based on perceived differences in its intrinsic value and its current market price, value investors expect a stock to increase in price over time and seek to buy at a discount | |
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| 49 | Options - contracts that grant the owner the right to buy or sell a specified amount of stock at a given price within a given period of time, are more complicated than traditional shares and much riskier, can be calls or puts | |
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| 51 | Calls - options that give the owner the right to buy a stock at a given price within a given period of time, are used to bet that a stock will go up | |
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| 53 | Puts - options that give the owner the right to sell a stock a given price within a given period of time, are used to bet that a stock will go down | |
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| 55 | Dividends - money taken from excess profits that companies give investors on a regular, predetermined basis as an incentive to own their stock | |
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| 57 | Shorting - the practice of borrowing shares of a stock at a given price, selling them immediately, and then buying an equal amount of shares at a lower price, giving them back, and keeping the difference, is used to profit when a stock does down | |
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| 59 | Mutual fund - a pool of money collected from multiple investors and managed by professionals that is invested in a diverse number of stocks | |
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| 61 | Market index - a weighted average of the value of several individual stocks in a sector of the stock market | |
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| 63 | Index fund - a type of mutual fund with a portfolio made to match a given market index | |
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| 65 | ETF (exchange traded fund) - a type of fund resembling an index fund which can be bought and sold like a typical share of stock | |
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| 67 | Cryptocurrencies - bullshit internet tokens with no intrinsic value and prices based entirely on arbitrary speculative hype that nobody with any common sense should place large amounts of money into |
