New York Stock Market and Weekly Updates

We, at Best Growth Stock LLC, present a comprehensive glossary of the important stock market terms used at the New York Stock Market and Exchange to give you a quick review of them.

Abandoned option - Where an option is neither exercised nor sold, but simply left to lapse at expiry.

Account sale - A report by a commodity broker to a client in case of closing of a future transaction. It is also referred as Purchase and sale statement.

Balance sheet - Being a very important part of a company's report and accounts, it contains a snapshot of the entire financial assets and liabilities of the company, at the end of a financial year.

Back office - It is the brokerage house administrative operations supporting the trading of stocks and various other securities.

Dawn raid - It is the practice of buying shares in a potential target at the beginning of a trading day. It is hoped that the rest of the market will be slow to react to the buying fling and that the price will not rise until the completion of the raid.

Factoring - A company which is owed money by trade debtors confronts the risk of slow payment or default on those debts which can hinder the cash flow. Factoring them can lessen the danger.

Fair market value - It is the traded value of an asset which is agreed by both the seller and the buyer, and when no party is desperate to sell and the entire scenario is calm and rational.

Last trading day - It is an expression used in futures and options trading implying the last day for trading in a contract for a specific delivery or expiry month.

Managed account - An investment account, which is managed by the investment department of a bank for the client.

Screen trading - Trading carried on via an electronic system, in contrast to the face-to-face trading for an exchange floor.