Dictionary


Adverse Excursion
The loss attributable to price movement against the position in any one trade.
After Hour Trading
The practice of buying and selling stocks or indexes after official trading hours.
All or None
Used on a buy or sell order to instruct the broker to fill the order completely or not at all.
Alpha
Premium that an investment portfolio earns above a given point of reference which exceeds the one that can be forecasted using the CAPM or APT model.
American Depository Receipts (ADR)
Certificates that are issued by a bank of US origin and traded in the U.S. as domestic shares. The certificates represent the foreign securities that the bank holds in that security's country of origin.