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This is the average stock price over a certain period of time.

The measurement of how much an underlying security fluctuates over a period of time.

A charting term meaning the stock price is going down from here.

Futures contracts which have a stock index as the underlying interest.

The date when the purchase or sale of a security takes place.

Company with market capitalization less than $1 billion.

Volume is the daily number of shares of a security that are traded. Volume is one of the most important indicators we watch. Its relation with price movements tells us 90% of the story behind a stock?s movement and future movements. At its simplest, increased volume on increasing prices shows accumulation. Increased volume on lower prices shows distribution. There are many variations on this theme, and we spend a great deal of time poring over price/volume relations to determine which way a stock will move.

Sales or revenues.

A security issue that is removed or delisted from the list of tradable security issues of an exchange. It is usually accompanied with a reason for deletion and the deletion date.

Orders which must trade under special conditions. For example, a cash order will be settled sooner than the usual three-day settlement period.