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Any of a company’s securities or the act of distributing the securities. Issued shares refer to the portion of a company’s shares that have been issued for sale. A company does not have to issue the total number of its authorized shares.

An investor involved in financing a company’s operations before going public in exchange for an ownership percentage.

This is the date that a stock must be in your account for you to receive a dividend. The record date has nothing to do with how we trade stock splits.

Current assets minus current liabilities. 

This policy requires all listed companies to publicly disclose material information in a timely manner.

The trading status of a class or series of an issuer’s listed securities, such that a class or series of listed securities of an issuer may be halted, suspended, or delisted from trading.

When the market or security tends to vary often and wildly in prices, it is said to be volatile.

A security that carries a condition giving the issuer a right to call in and retire that security at a certain price and for a certain period of time.

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

These are phrases used in placing orders to either buy or sell securities. If you are placing an order to purchase ten contracts of Dell October $40 calls at a limit of 4 5/8 for the day, you would tell your broker you were placing a day order for 10 contracts of Dell October $40 strike calls to buy at a limit of 4 5/8. This gives your broker all the information he or she needs to place the order.