Personal Finance Vocab

Bull

A time when investments prices rise, usually during an economic recovery or boom

Correction

A decline of 10% or more in the price of a security or equity from its most recent peak

Dollar

Is the strategy of spreading out your purchases, buying at regular intervals and in roughly equal amounts

index

A portfolio of stocks or bonds designed to copy the composition and performance of a financial market

Equities

Is the ownership of an asset or value

Active

Managing your money regularly, moving it in and out of different investments based on your analysis

Profollio

A collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash and cash equivalents, including Mutual Funds and ETF's

Stock

A system or machine for buying and selling securities, or stocks and bonds

Bear

A time when investment prices fall, usually during an economic recession

NASDAQ

In the united states, is an exchange that does its business electronically, or online, comprised of mainly tech comapanies

DOW

Tracks a basket of the 30 largest and most influential public companies in the stock market

Volatility

Unexpected changes to a fund or company shares

Brokerage

A person or business that acts as an agent for others in the buying and selling of stocks, shares, equities, and commodities.

Reccision

A fall in a country's gross national product in three successive quarters

Bonds

A receipt given by a government or organization as an agreement to borrow money which will be returned at a later date with a certain amount of interest

Divideds

A payment made by corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits

exchange

Traded Fund, is a collection of stocks that trade on the stock market throughout the day

Investor

Someone who provides money or resources for a corporation, government, with the expectation of financial or other gain

Passive

Investing by buying equities to own them long term

Standard

In the united states, a Stock market index