Resistance level is a term that defines the price level of the asset where the price is held down by the number of traders who want to sell the asset at the moment. Resistance can be both short and long, as it is determined by the current trends in the market.

Reward risk ratio is another trading tool that can help a trader determine whether the risk they are taking with a certain trade is worth all of the potential winnings. in combinations with win rate can be one of the most important trading tools in the market.

A term used by The Dow Theory author, Robert Rhea, to describe the day-to-day fluctuations in stock market prices. Rhea wrote that three simultaneous movements of stock prices occur that can be compared to tides, waves, and ripples. Rhea's book, The Dow Theory, published in 1932, suggested that speculators attempt to ride the tides and the occasional big waves, and that only reckless investors would ever attempt to profit from day-to-day price ripples. 

A rate of return is the gain or loss on an investment over a specified time period, expressed as a percentage of the investment’s cost. Gains on investments are defined as income received plus any capital gains realized on the sale of the investment.

A recession is a significant decline in activity across the economy, lasting longer than two consecutive quarters. It is visible in industrial production, employment, real income and wholesale-retail trade. The technical indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP).