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Income not derived from basic business of company. 

A special term order when one or more participants in the trade is not a Canadian resident.

Profits a company can be expected to achieve taking out cyclical effects and unusual events such as one-time write-offs caused by late product releases, customer bankruptcies and the like. 

A block of stock consisting of less than 100 shares. When odd lots trade, a premium is usually tacked on by the specialist or market maker. These receive the least favorable price and trade last.

A special-term order placed with the intention of trading at a later date when the price of the stock reaches the specified stop price. An on-stop order becomes a limit order once a trade at the trigger price has occurred.

A market that has only buy orders or only sell orders booked for a particular security.

The government agency that administers the Securities Act (Ontario) and the Commodity Futures Act (Ontario) and regulates securities and listed futures contract transactions in Ontario.

This is the price at which a security opens for the trading day. A stock can open at the previous closing price, gap up or gap down.

Investors buy shares directly from fund, and sell shares directly to fund. Share price is Net Asset Value (NAV).

An order that remains in the system for more than a day. See Good-Till-Cancelled or Good-Till-Date.