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.

Style is a term used to describe investment and trading approach that is used by a trader or by a fund manager. Style includes searching for the trading assets, usage of trading signals managing the income and so on.

Justified wage is a fair income which is determined by the market dynamic, work experience, skills and education level. It is a perfectly balanced level of high wage that will attract new workers and of low-enough level that will enable the employer to offer it.

Mom-and-pop is a term used to describe small and family-owned establishments. They often struggle to compete with the big competitions.

K is a fifth letter that can be attached to NASDAQ stock symbol in order to note that the stock has no voting rights.

Out trade is a trade that can’t be placed because due to receiving conflicting information. The clearing house can’t settle the trade as data submitted by both parties of the transaction is either inconsistent or contradictory.

Paid-up is a status of a customers who has made all of the payments on the security purchase. When trader is all paid-up they have fulfilled absolutely all of the payments on the security.

Take a flier is an expression that is used in the situation when an investor invests their money into a very risky business and knows that it can result in a significant loss.

Job lot is a futures contact with volume smaller than the level needed for regular contract. They exist in order to add to the liquidity of the futures by letting smaller participants to enter the market.

Stock market crash is a sudden and unexpected drop in the price of stocks. It can come as a side effect to other major catastrophic events in the economy.

People poison pill is a strategy used by the companies to prevent hostile takeovers. Among others in includes the threat that in the case of takeover the entire team is going to quit their job. This can scare off those ready-to-take-over as they are going to have to look for entire new team to run the business.