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.