Dictionary
- Buy Stop
- A buy order not to be executed until the market price rises to the stop price. Once the security has broken through that price, the order is then treated as a market order.
- Buy-and-hold approach
- An investment strategy in which stocks are bought and then held for a long period, regardless of the market's fluctuations. The buy-and-hold approach to investing in stocks and mutual funds rests upon the assumption that in the very long term stock prices will go up.