Style drift is the divergence or difference of a fund from its investment style or from its goal. Style drifts are often the results of capital appreciation. Can also be a result of a change in the management of the fund.

Discount bond is a type of bond that is issued and sold for less than its face or par value. It can also refer to a bond that is currently traded for less than it is worth in the secondary market. Similar to zero-coupon bonds, although discount bonds also have an interest payment.

Envelope is a technical indicator that is plotted over a price with upper and lower bounds. Commonly envelope can be seen as a moving average that is presented in a form of two moving averages which in their turn define upper and lower price range levels.

Relisted is the company that after a while returned it shares for public trading. Sometimes companies take their shares off the market if trading fails to be satisfactory or they just prefer not to be traded publically because of the bad market condition.

Unrestricted cash refers to the monetary assets which are not tied to anything and have no particular usage. It can be used for anything as it is not saved for anything in particular. Companies usually keep unrestricted cash in order to balance sheets.

Mothballing is an attempt to save financial assets with the aim to use them later. Can also refer to an attempt to set aside an idea or an object for a later use and implementation.

Transfer risk is a threat that the domestic currency cannot be converted of exchanged into another currency due to rapidly changing exchange rate and nominal value of domestic currency. Also known as conversion risk.

Bid tick is a trading indicators that displays the change in price of a bid – it shows whether the price is higher or lower compared to the previous bid. The ticks give traders real time information on the state of the price in the markets.

Workout market is an estimation of the adjustment of market prices in the nearest future. The prediction is known as market maker prediction.

A rainmaker is a person who brings a lot of money and work to the firm where they are working. In trading firm, it is a brokers who brought in the most money and the wealthiest customer.

Optionable stock is a stock that has no listed and traded options in the market exchange. Not all of the companies which are traded publically issue options are it is always connected with meeting some of the requirements like a certain minimum of outstanding shares and others.

Bear trap is a technical pattern that can be spotted in the graphs. It is the situation when the technical pattern signals about the reversal of the uptrend without being correct.

Noise trader is a trader who prefers not to rely on the technical analysis and professional advice. Instead they prefer trading impulsively and on a whim. Traders like that make decision based on the overall situation without giving into the details. They rely on trends and tend to sell and buy based on the news they read.

Internet bubble or dot-com bubble is an investment phenomenon that we saw in the beginning of the 1990s as the internet started booming. Investors started overinvesting in telecoms, IT infrastructure and internet companies which led to over-feeding this sector and further collapse of NASDAQ Index.

Anomaly in the markets is the unexpected or out-of-the-ordinary performance of the asset that goes against all of the rules and has unexpected turn of events. Regardless of the whether the model of behavior is old or new the anomaly is always impossible to predict and are always quite ruinous.

Naked writer is the options seller who doesn’t have the underlying security and who doesn’t short it. to put it short – a naked writer is an unhedged options writer. These options in their turn are called naked options.

Kickback is a bribing technique that is used to butter up the executives. A client gives an official a reward or percentage from the earnings as a thank you for a favorable behavior and good services. Considered illegal and has consequence.

QQQQ is an old name used for Nasdaq 100 Index. This index consists of 100 biggest and most commonly traded non-financial stocks of Nasdaq. The index is also known as QUADRUPLE Qs. The official symbol is QQQ Trust or QQQ.

A yield elbow is the point on the yield curve indicating the year in which the economy had the highest interest rate. It is the graphical relationship between the yield and maturity of bonds with various maturities and the same credit quality, at a specific point in time.

Liquid asset is an asset that can be turned in cash extremely fast. Usually liquid assets take no hits in price as everything happens to quickly for the price to change significantly. The most liquid market if currencies’ market.