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What is covariance? Covariance is the comparison of how assets move in the markets. Positive covariance is when assets move in tandem, such as when...
What is the Advance Decline Ratio? The advance decline ratio is used to determine how the market performed on a given day. It does this by comparin...
What does “Breaking the Buck” mean? Breaking the buck means that a money market fund’s value has dropped to less than $1. This happens becaus...
What is Disinflation? Disinflation is a term used for an interim slowdown of inflation rate. For example, a reduction of inflation growth from 3.5%...
Market manipulation is manipulation of the, uh... market. Like...illegally. Yeah, any sort of "scheme" is probably something you want to avoid.
What is Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)? A CMO is a mortgage bond that consists of a large number of different individual mortgages bundle...
What are ascending and descending tops and triangles? Ascending and descending tops and triangles are used to describe market performance graphs. T...
What are Capital Markets? The most often context used for “Capital Markets” is in corporate finance and investment banking, and it refers prima...
A fundamental analyst is basically the opposite of a chartist - they care about a company's earnings, profit margins, gross rates, etc.
What are overbought and oversold? Hit play to find out.
What is volatility? In the world of investing, volatility basically means riskiness. It looks at the returns for stocks or indexes, and if they are...
What is Alpha? Alpha is an investing term that describes the success of an investment. It looks at the investment’s ability to beat beta (or mark...
What is Beta? Beta is a figure associated with public companies that measures how risky the company’s stock is in comparison to the market as a w...
What is short interest theory? Watch this not-so-short video to find out.
What is a thin market, and has it been on Jenny Craig recently?
What are moving averages? Moving averages are calculated using past stock prices in an attempt to determine future trends. It’s calculated by ave...
What is Above Full Employment Equilibrium? Above Full Employment Equilibrium happens when an economy is basically doing more than it realistically...
What is a High Alpha Investor? A high alpha investor invests in securities with alpha values of 1 or higher. This means that the mutual fund or sto...
The Sharpe Ratio is a calculation used by investors to measure the dynamics between risk and reward. TL;DR: lottery tickets=bad.