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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. 

Options that can be exercised any time during their lifetime. These are also known as open options.

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.

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

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.

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

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..

Companies currently out of favor with investors. These companies usually have low valuation ratios (price/earnings less than the S&P 500, price/sales ratio less than 2, price/book ratio less than 2).