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Borrowings that must be repaid within one-year. 

Stocks and other liquid securities. 

This is an instruction you can give your broker when placing a buy or a sell order. This instruction ensures that your order will be filled in its entirety or not at all. This prevents having a partial execution of your trade.

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

An order that must be filled completely or the trade will not take place.

A certificate trading on a U.S. stock exchange that represents shares of a foreign corporation. 

Company with market capitalization less than $1 billion.

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

Options that can be exercised any time during their lifetime. These are also known as open options.

Someone typically working for a brokerage house, who publishes buy/hold/sell recommendations and earnings forecasts for a stock. Buy side analysts work for institutional buyers, and sell side analysts work for brokerages.