- Short sellers rely on brokers to have shares available for borrowing.
- Headline risk is that a news report will negatively affect the share price when the time and content of the message is not known in advance.
- A high close is a stock manipulation tactic in which small trades are made at high prices in the last minutes of trading.
- The Hindenburg Omen is a technical indicator that was designed to signal an increased likelihood of a stock market crash.
- Insider trading is the buying or selling of shares in a publicly traded company by someone who has non-public material information about those shares.
- Interim reports are financial statements prepared by firms for a period of less than one year.
- Issued shares refer to the total number of company shares held by investors, insiders and held in reserve to pay employees.
- The January effect is the estimated seasonal trend in inventories for that month.
- Jesse L. Livermore was a famous stock trader in the early 20th century.
- The KBW Bank Index tracks stock prices of well-known banking companies in an attempt to be a benchmark for observers of the banking industry.