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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. 

A publication, including financial statements and a report on operations, issued by a company to its shareholders at the company’s fiscal year-end.

An order that must be filled completely or the trade will not take place.

A certificate trading on a U.S. stock exchange that represents shares of a foreign corporation. 

Expenses shown on the income statement but not yet paid. 

stock trading when the major stock exchanges are closed. 

This is an instruction you can give your broker when placing a buy or a sell order. This instruction ensures that your order will be filled in its entirety or not at all. This prevents having a partial execution of your trade.

For the current bull phase, stocks which gave over 100 percent return include names like Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Vedanta, Titan Company, and Maruti Suzuki..

To write an option is to sell an option. The person who sells the option is considered to be the writer.

This is the measure of the return on an investment and is shown as a percentage. A stock yield is calculated by dividing the annual dividend by the stock’s current market price. For example, a stock selling at $50 and with an annual dividend of $5 per share yields 10%. A bond yield is a more complicated calculation, involving annual interest payments, plus amortizing the difference between its current market price and par value over the life of the bond.