The price you are asked to pay when you buy a stock (see ‘Bid Price’).
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Minimum Guaranteed Fill (MGF) Orders
These orders are guaranteed a complete fill upon entry. A Registered Trader will provide the stock should the book be below the required limit. To be eligible for MGF, an order has to be a tradable client order with a volume less than or equal to the MGF size, which varies from stock to stock.
Short-term Debt
Borrowings that must be repaid within one-year.
Yield
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.
Ask Size
The aggregate size in board lots of the most recent ask to sell a particular security.
Short-term Investments
Stocks and other liquid securities.
Mixed Lot or Broken Lot
An order with a volume that combines any number of board lots and an odd lot.
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Simple Moving Average (SMA)
This is the average stock price over a certain period of time.
Asset Allocation
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.