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Shares owned by pension funds, mutual funds, banks, etc.

The place where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods and services. It also represents the actual or potential demand for a product or service.

An order to close out an existing open futures or options contract. A liquidating order involves the sale of a contract that has been purchased or purchase of a contract that has been sold.

An order with a volume that combines any number of board lots and an odd lot.

The international standard that is used to uniquely identify securities. It consists of a two-character alphabetic country code specified in ISO 6166, followed by a nine-character alphanumeric security identifier (assigned by a national security numbering agency), and then an ISIN check-digit.

Soft assets such as patents, trademarks, etc. 

This is a company’s market capitalization. To calculate the market cap, simply multiply the issued and outstanding shares by the current selling price.

A strategy for selecting stocks using screening criteria that have been found to work in the past.

Stock trading tracked in periods shorter than one day.

a measure of the number of shares, or dollar value of shares traded daily. Mutual funds and other institutional buyers prefer high liquidity stocks so they can easily move in and out of positions.