- Industry: Financial services
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A risk structure that spreads investor's risks across low-, medium-, and high-risk vehicles. The bulk of the assets are in safe, low-risk investments that provide a predictable return (base of the pyramid). At the top of the pyramid are a few high-risk ventures that have a modest chance of success.
Industry:Financial services
Entering into options or futures contracts with advance knowledge of a block transaction that will influence the price of the underlying security to capitalise on the trade. This practise is expressly forbidden by the SEC.
Industry:Financial services
A market strategy in which investors sell stocks to drive prices to a level that breaks through stop orders known to exist. Once the price is low enough, the stop orders become market orders and are executed, to create snowballing.
Industry:Financial services
The result of dividing one financial statement item by another. Ratios help analysts interpret financial statements by focusing on specific relationships.
Industry:Financial services
A disciplinary action taken by the Federal Reserve Board for some violation of Regulation T, an individual investor cannot sell securities until they are paid for in full and certificates delivered.
Industry:Financial services
A system whose probabilities are well described by the normal distribution, or bell shaped curve.
Industry:Financial services
The risk that the cash flow of an issuer will not be adequate to meet its financial obligations. Also referred to as the additional risk that a firm's stockholder bears when the firm uses debt and equity.
Industry:Financial services
