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

10-K
401k
52 Week High
52 Week Low

A – C Investment Terms

Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Accrual of Discount
Acquisition
Active Investing
Adjustable Rate
Aggregate Risk
Alpha
American Depositary Receipt (ADR)
Amortization
Annual Report
Annuity
Arbitrage Trading
Asset
Ask Price
Balance Sheet
Balance Transfer
Balloon Loan
Bailout
Bank
Bank Draft
Bankruptcy
Beta
Bid Ask Spread
Bid Price
Bill of Exchange
Book Value
Bond
Bond Fund
Bracketed Order
Budget
C Corporation
Call Option
Capital
Capital Commitment
Capital Gain
Capital Lease
Capital Loss
Capitalism
Case Shiller Home Price Index
Cash Flow
Cash On Delivery
Certificate of Deposit
Chapter 11
Churn Rate
Commodity
Common Stock
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Contract
Consumer
Contingent Beneficiary
Contingent Order
Corporate Bond
Corporation
Cost of Goods Sold
Cost of Sale
Credit Agency
Credit Score
Curb Trading
Current Ratio

D-F Investment Terms

Day Trader
Death Benefit
Debenture
Debit Card
Debt
Debt Equity Ratio
Deed in Lieu
Deferred Revenue
Demand
Dividend Aristocrats
Dividend Yield
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Earnings Per Share
EBITDA
Economy of Scale
Effective Date
Equity
Escrow
Exchange Traded Funds
Factoring
Federal Reserve
Fiduciary
Fixed Asset
Fixed Cost
FOB (Freight on Board)
Forex
Franchise

G-I Investment Terms

General Fund
Globalization
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Gross Margin
Gross Profit
Hedge Fund
House Rules
Index Funds
Inflation
Insider Trading
Interest Rate
Investment Incentive
Irrevocable Trust

J-L Investment Terms

Leading Economic Indicators
Letter of Credit
Leverage
Liability
Limit Order
LLC (Limited Liability Company)
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)

M-O Investment Terms

Margin
Marker Order
Market Capitalization
Money Orders
Monopoly
Mortgage
Mutual Fund
Negotiable
Net Income
Net Profit
Net Working Capital
Net Worth
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
One Cancels All Order
One Triggers All Order
One Triggers OCO Order
Online Broker
Operating Income
Operating Profit
Opportunity Cost
Options Trading

P-R Investment Terms

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

S-U Investment Terms

S Corporation
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
SEP IRA
Share Buyback
Short Selling
Silent Partner
SIPC
Socialism
Sole Proprietorship
Spread
Stock Exchange
Stop Order
Surety Bond
Supercede
Time Deposit
Trailing Stop Order
Treasury Bills
Treasury Bonds
Treasury Notes
Treasury Securities
Triple Net Lease
Turnover
Unrealized Gain
Unrealized Loss

V-Z Investment Terms

Variable Cost
Venture Capital
Working Capital
Yield