Hard-to-borrow list is a list of securities held at a brokerage firm which includes the list of securities which are hard to borrow for short sale transactions.

Accumulating shares are a type of shares given to shareholders as a substitution of or in addition to their dividends. By taking accumulating shares instead of cash, shareholders don't have to pay income tax on the distributions in the current year.

Fortune 100 is a list of 100 most profitable and largest US companies put together but a Fortune magazine. The list includes both private and public companies which are giving their income reports to the government agency.

Linkage is the ability to but a security on one financial exchange and then selling it in another exchange. There are several assets that allow such operations. This allows traders to have the possibility to buy cheaper and sell more expensive.

Shadow is a line that can be found in a candlestick chart. It is used to indicate the time at which the price for an asset fluctuated relative to the opening and closing prices. One can say that shadows illustrate the highest and lowest prices at which a particular security was traded over a specific time period of time.

Natural capital refers to the stock of the companies which hold natural resources – oil and water for example. All of the commodities are to be certified in order for the company to profit off of them in the futures market.

Early adopter is a term used to describe an individual, a group of people or whole businesses that have adopted new product or technologies before the public did. Although they usually end up paying more for the products they can enjoy premium offers as the products become available for the general public.

Relative return is the return that an asset can achieve in the given period of time compared to the benchmark. It is the difference between the asset’s and the benchmark return.

Macaroni defense is one of the defense approaches that includes issuing a large amount of bonds which have to be redeemed at high price in case the target company is taken over after all.

Painting the tape is one of the types of market manipulation where market players are buying and selling a security among themselves in order to create an illusion of trading activity.