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A brisk rise in the general price level of the market or price of a stock.

Services and products sold by a company. Sales and revenues mean the same thing.

All options of the same type, either calls or puts, that have the same underlying security.

Bottom line (after tax) earnings divided by sales.

OTC (over-the-counter) foreign trading refers to UMIR Rule 6.4 (e), which permits a trade to be executed off the Exchange, if one or both Participating Organization/Member client accounts are outside of Canada, provided such trades are reported within a specific time frame to the Exchange for public dissemination of the transaction.

Stock trading price reports that have not been artificially delayed.

A set pattern of months when a class of options expires.

Trades based on signals from computer programs. These are usually entered directly from the traders computer to the market’s computer system. Program trading accounts for an increasingly larger and larger portion of all trades throughout the day. Additionally, these large trades may be hedged by an offsetting position in index futures.

Annual sales divided by the number of shares outstanding.

Market prices that have risen too steeply and too quickly.