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Sales minus all expenses except income taxes and other items not related to basic business.

Operating income divided by sales.

All options of the same type, either calls or puts, that have the same underlying security.

Expenses not due to basic business of company.

Income not derived from basic business of company. 

A special term order when one or more participants in the trade is not a Canadian resident.

Profits a company can be expected to achieve taking out cyclical effects and unusual events such as one-time write-offs caused by late product releases, customer bankruptcies and the like. 

A block of stock consisting of less than 100 shares. When odd lots trade, a premium is usually tacked on by the specialist or market maker. These receive the least favorable price and trade last.

A special-term order placed with the intention of trading at a later date when the price of the stock reaches the specified stop price. An on-stop order becomes a limit order once a trade at the trigger price has occurred.

A market that has only buy orders or only sell orders booked for a particular security.