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Time after IPO, typically 25 days, when all parties involved in IPO are prohibited from commenting on the company’s future prospects. Analysts employed by underwriters are free to make buy/hold/sell recommendations after the Quiet Period expiration.

Costs of developing new products and services. 

Market prices that have risen too steeply and too quickly.

Transferable certificates of ownership of investment products such as notes, bonds, stocks, futures contracts and options.

A payment made by a market maker to a broker as a thank you for directing your stock trade to that market maker.

Information on the last trade, and current bid and asked prices. Most quotes are intentionally delayed about 20 minutes.

This is a level where a stock has a difficult time moving through. Resistance levels can be caused by former tops, breakout prices, moving averages, or just price levels where a stock has spent a lot of time in the past. When choosing buy levels, we watch for a stock to break through resistance on good volume. That indicates the move through the resistance is strong, and that the stock will most likely stay above that resistance. In such situations, former resistance then becomes support. When we take a position coming off of support, we always look for resistance levels as points where we may encounter resistance so we do not lose gains we have banked if resistance proves too much.

Market prices that have declined too steeply and too quickly.

Each province has a securities commission or administrator that oversees the provincial securities act. This act is a set of laws and regulations that set down the rules under which securities may be issued or traded in that province.

Percentage of earnings paid out in dividends.