Glossary

Equity ownership of less than 50% of the outstanding voting shares of a company which provides adequate control the operations of the company’s business.

A decrease in price from the last previous trade.

A formula based on the Sharpe Ratio that predicts the performance of an asset after risk adjustments.

A trend predicting technical indicator that conveys the rate at which stock prices are rising or falling.

Designed by Gene Quong and Avrum Soudack, this is a technical indicator that evaluates price and volume to assess buying and selling pressure.

A division of the financial market where financial instruments with high liquidity and short-term maturities are traded by banks, institutional investors and money dealers.

An algorithmic model that provides probabilities for various, different outcomes through analyzing random data samples.

A type of security derivative that carries collateral in the form of a mortgage or a group of mortgages.

A technical analysis formula that calculates the mean of data for a specified time period by continually recomputing the mean as new values are added.

Designed by Gerald Appel, this is a technical indicator that compares values of two Exponential Moving Averages at periods of 26 and 12 respectively to reveal trend strength, direction and duration as well as momentum.