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A trade is on a downtick when the last trade occurred at a price lower than the previous one.

The process of dividing your funds among different classes of investments such as stock, bond, or real estate. You could further allocate your stock funds into value, growth, foreign, etc.

Permits Participating Organizations to voluntarily withhold their true broker identities when entering orders and trades on TSX trading systems.

Cash or stock paid to shareholders, usually on a quarterly schedule.

The lowest price at which someone is willing to sell the security. When combined with the bid price information, it forms the basis of a stock quote.

Investing a fixed amount of dollars in a specific security at regular set intervals over a period of time. Dollar cost averaging results in a lower average cost per share, compared with purchasing a constant number of shares at set intervals. The investor buys more shares when the price is low and buys fewer shares when the price is high.

The price you are asked to pay when you buy a stock (see ‘Bid Price’).

Total of 12-month’s dividends paid (historical or forecast) divided by the latest share price. 

Someone typically working for a brokerage house, who publishes buy/hold/sell recommendations and earnings forecasts for a stock. Buy side analysts work for institutional buyers, and sell side analysts work for brokerages. 

The date set by the issuer on which the dividend/distribution will be paid.