Investment Terms

Investment terms can be confusing but Investing School is here to help straighten it out for you. This list of definitions is constantly being updated so remember to check back often to learn more. If there’s a specific term that you are confused about, remember to contact me and I will write a post to explain it.

0-9 Investment Terms

401k

A – C Investment Terms

Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Adjustable Rate
Alpha
American Depositary Receipt (ADR)
Amortization
Arbitrage Trading
Asset
Ask Price
Balance Transfer
Balloon Loan
Bailout
Beta
Bid Ask Spread
Bid Price
Bond
Bond Fund
Bracketed Order
Call Option
Capital Commitment
Capital Gain
Capital Loss
Case Shiller Home Price Index
Cash Flow
Cash On Delivery
Certificate of Deposit
Contingent Order
Corporate Bond
Corporation
Credit Agency
Curb Trading
Current Ratio

D-F Investment Terms

Day Trader
Death Benefit
Debit Card
Debt Equity Ratio
Dividend Aristocrats
Dividend Yield
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Earnings Per Share
EBITDA
Effective Date
Equity
Escrow
Exchange Traded Funds
Factoring
Federal Reserve
Forex

G-I Investment Terms

General Fund
Globalization
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Hedge Fund
House Rules
Index Funds
Inflation
Insider Trading
Investment Incentive

J-L Investment Terms

Letter of Credit
Leverage
Liability
Limit Order

M-O Investment Terms

Margin
Marker Order
Market Capitalization
Mutual Fund
Negotiable
Net Income
Net Profit
Net Working Capital
Net Worth
One Cancels All Order
One Triggers All Order
One Triggers OCO Order
Online Broker
Operating Income
Options Trading

P-R Investment Terms

Preferred Stock (Preferred Shares)
Price to Earnings
Profit and Loss Statement
Put Option
Realized Gain
Realized Loss
Recession
Revenue
Reverse Mortgage
Rule of 72

S-U Investment Terms

Securities
SEP IRA
Short Selling
Silent Partner
SIPC
Spread
Stock Exchange
Stop Order
Supercede
Time Deposit
Trailing Stop Order
Treasury Bills
Treasury Bonds
Treasury Notes
Treasury Securities
Triple Net Lease
Unrealized Gain
Unrealized Loss

V-Z Investment Terms

Working Capital