Finance Dictionary for India
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Stock Market Basics
53 terms- 10 Best Stock Market Books for Beginners
- Bearish Market
- Breach of Covenant
- Broker Dealer
- Brokerage Account
- Brokerage Firm
- Bull Market
- Bull Market vs Bear Market
- Careers in Capital Market
- Cash Account
- Ceiling
- Classification Of Financial Markets
- Closing Disclosure
- Commodity
- Commodity vs Equity
- Custodial Account
- Depository Vs Repository
- Diamond Quality Explained
- Difference Between Primary and Secondary Market
- Disclosure
- Disclosure Statement
- Discount Broker
- Disintermediation
- Dotcom
- Escrow Account
- Escrow Agent
- Escrow Agreement
- Escrow Analysis in Finance
- Escrow Payment
- Expedited Funds Availability Act
- Financial Distress
- Financial Information
- Financial Market
- Full Form Of BSE
- Functions of Financial Markets
- Initial Disclosure
- Investment vs Speculation
- Investor Confidence Project
- Liquidator
- Promissory Estoppel
- Share Market
- Share Trading Account
- Speculative Motive
- Stock Market
- Stock Symbol
- Stockbroker
- Sustainability Reporting
- Sweep Account
- Tear Sheet
- Ticker Symbol
- Troy Ounce
- Wrap Account
- Zero-Sum Game
Trading Basics
128 terms- ABCD Pattern
- Active Trading
- Adjusted Closing Price
- After Hours Trading
- Aftermarket
- Arbitrageur
- Ask Price
- Average Down
- Best Forex Prop Firms in 2026
- Bid Price
- Bid vs Ask
- Bid vs Offer
- Bid-Ask Spread
- Block Trade
- Bookie
- Brokerage Fee
- Buying On Margin
- Buying Power
- Carry Trade for Indian Investors
- Cash And Carry Arbitrage
- Closing Price
- Commodity Trading Advisor
- Common Mistakes New Forex Traders Make
- Contract Note
- Copy Trading
- Correlation Trading
- Cross Margin
- Cut-Off Point
- Cut-Off Time
- Decoding Trading Essentials by Unveiling Margin Requirements in Financial Markets
- Delivery Trading
- Direct Market Access
- Direct Quote
- Directional Trading
- Discretionary Trading
- ECN Broker
- Electronic Trading
- Extended Hours Trading
- Falling Knife
- Forex Money Management
- Free Margin
- Hammering
- High Probability Trading
- Hit The Bid
- House Call
- How To Choose the Right Prop Firm in India for Your Trading Goals?
- How To Develop a Forex Trading Plan in India
- How To Pass Prop Firm Challenge
- How To Read A Stock Chart
- Inflection Point
- Initial Margin
- Investment
- Investment Tools That Can Improve Trading Performance
- Leverage Trading
- Lift The Offer
- Long Position
- Maintenance Margin
- Margin Account
- Margin Call
- Margin Debt
- Margin Trading
- Markdown
- Market Depth
- Market Liquidity
- Martingale System
- Mean-Reversion Trading Strategies
- Mid-Price
- Morning Star Pattern in Technical Analysis
- Net Volume
- No Dealing Desk
- Objective Vs Subjective Trading
- Odd Lot
- Open Position
- Open Trade
- Opening Range
- Oversold
- Overtrading
- Pain Trade
- Paper Trade
- Pattern Day Trader
- PIP in Forex
- Plan Your Trades Early With This Complete 2025 Holiday Calendar
- Portfolio Margin
- Position Trader
- Position Trading
- Pre-Market
- Pre-Market Trading
- Price Change
- Priced Out
- Profit Factor
- Proprietary Trading
- Pyramiding
- Quoted Price
- Range-Bound Market
- Requote
- Scalping
- Seasonal Trading Strategy
- Seasonality
- Secondary Sale
- Shorting
- Sideways Market
- Social Trading
- Speculator
- Spot Trade
- Stock Quote
- Stock Rotation
- Stock Trading
- Stop Out Level
- Synthetic Trading
- The Evolution of Prop Firms? From Bank Trading Desks to Independent Capital Providers
- Tick Size
- Trade Confirmation
- Trade Date
- Trading
- Trading Book
- Trading Desk
- Trading Discipline
- Trading Performance
- Trading Plan
- Trading Rules
- Trading Session
- Trading Strategy
- Trading vs Investing
- Variation Margin
- Volume Of Trade
- Volume Vs Liquidity
- What is a Funded Trading Account and How Does It Work?
- Win/Loss Ratio
Orders & Order Types
25 terms- Basket Order
- Best Execution
- Bracket Order in Indian Trading
- Buy Limit Order
- Buy-Stop Order
- Day Order
- Fill Or Kill
- Good 'Til Cancelled
- Hard Stop
- Iceberg Order
- Immediate Or Cancel Order
- Limit Order
- Market Order
- Market Order vs Limit Order
- Market-On-Close Order
- Market-On-Open Order
- Open Order
- Order Book
- Pegged Order
- Slippage
- Smart Order Routing
- Stop-Limit Order
- Stop-Loss Order
- Trade Execution
- Trailing Stop Loss
Derivatives & Futures
12 termsIPO & Primary Market
28 terms- Allotment of Shares
- Book Building
- Bookrunner
- Bought Deal
- Direct Listing
- Equity Capital Market
- Flotation Cost
- Follow-on Public Offering (FPO)
- Full Form of IPO
- Going Public
- Gray Market
- Greensheet
- Gun Jumping
- Hot IPO
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Issuer
- Offer For Sale
- Offering Price
- Open Listing
- Oversubscription
- Pre-IPO Investing
- Primary Market
- Quiet Period
- Red Herring Prospectus
- Registration Rights
- Seasoned Equity Offering
- Selling Group
- Underwriter
Indices & Benchmarks
20 terms- All Ordinaries Index
- Big Mac Index
- Emerging Markets Bond Index
- Equal Weighted Index
- Euro Overnight Index Average
- Fear And Greed Index
- FTSE Indices
- Full Form of NIFTY
- Full Form of SENSEX
- Hang Seng Index
- Market Cap-Weighted Index
- Market Index
- MSCI EAFE Index
- MSCI Emerging Markets Index
- Nikkei
- Price-Weighted Index
- Skew Index
- Stock Index
- Total Return Index
- Volatility Index
Stocks & Equity
25 terms- Acting in Concert
- BAT Stocks
- Blue Chip Stocks
- Counter-Cyclical Stock
- Cyclical Stocks
- Defensive Stock
- Depositary Receipt
- Direct Stock Purchase Plan
- Distribution in Finance and Investing
- Growth Stock
- Large Cap Stock
- Large Cap Vs Small Cap Stocks
- Lower Middle Market
- Mega cap
- Meme Stocks
- Micro-Cap
- Mid-Cap Stocks
- Middle Market
- Open Trade Equity
- Penny Stock
- Shark Repellent
- Small Cap Stocks
- Tender Windows for Employees
- Transfer of Shares
- Whisper Number
Market Structure
76 terms- Alternative Trading System
- Asymmetric Information
- Auction
- Auction Market
- Brokered Market
- Call Market
- Capital Market
- Circuit Breaker in Stock Market
- Clearing And Settlement
- Clearinghouse in Indian Markets
- Clearstream
- Commodity Exchange Act
- Commodity Market
- CREST
- Cross Trade
- Cross-Listing
- Custodian
- Daily Trading Limit
- Dark Pool
- Dealer Market
- Delisting
- Demutualization
- Depository
- Depository Participant in India
- Differences Between NSE and BSE
- Dual Listing
- Dutch Auction
- Electronic Communication Network
- English Auction
- Equity Market
- Euroclear
- Fast Market
- Fast Market Rule
- Floor Trader
- Foreign Exchange Market
- Forex Market
- Full Form of SEBI
- How to Evaluate White Label Exchange Platforms in India
- Introducing Broker
- Limit Up and Price Bands in India
- Market Makers
- MiFID II
- Money Market
- Money Market vs Capital Market
- Net Settlement
- New York Board Of Trade
- Night Depository
- Open Outcry
- Paying Agent
- Pink Sheets
- Price Band
- Price Discovery
- Price Maker
- Prime Brokerage
- Regulatory Compliance
- Regulatory Sandbox
- Reintermediation
- Reserve Price
- Reverse Auction
- Ring Trading
- Sealed Bid
- Secondary Market
- SEDOL
- Soft Dollars
- Spot Market
- Stock Exchange
- Stock Halt
- Stock Market Jobbers
- Targeted Auction
- Trade Lifecycle
- Trading Floor
- Trading Mechanisms
- Trading Terminal
- Uptick Rule
- Vickrey Auction
- VSAT
Volatility & Risk
26 terms- 2020 Stock Market Crash
- Black Swan Event in Indian Financial Markets
- Financial Crisis
- Flash Crash
- Forex Risk Management
- Grey Swan
- Implied Volatility
- Implied Volatility Formula
- Kelly Criterion
- Market Correction
- Market Volatility
- Pre-Settlement Risk
- Price Spike
- Risk Management In Trading
- Sell-Off
- Solvency II
- Stock Market Crash
- Time-Varying Volatility
- Uncertainty Principle
- Volatility
- Volatility Clustering
- Volatility Compression
- Volatility Expansion
- Volatility Formula
- Volatility Skew
- Volatility Smile
Algo & Quant Trading
38 terms- Algorithmic Trading in India
- Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)
- Backpropagation
- Backtesting
- Black Box Model
- Black-Box Trading
- Brownian Motion In Finance
- Carhart Four-Factor Model
- Cheyette Model
- Correlogram
- Execution Speed in Fast-Moving Markets
- Factor Timing
- Field Programmable Gate Array
- Fractal Dimension Index
- High-Frequency Trading Firm
- High-Frequency Trading in India
- How to Choose the Best VPS for Forex Trading
- How to Learn Algorithmic Trading in a Structured Manner
- Introduction To AI In Stock Market Prediction
- Jump Trading
- Latency Arbitrage
- Machine Learning In Trading
- Market Impact Model
- Market Microstructure
- Market Model
- Multi-Factor Model
- Program Trading
- Quantitative Trading
- SABR Model
- Speed Bump in Trading
- Statistical Arbitrage
- Stochastic Volatility
- Stock Market Data API
- Tick Data
- Time-Weighted Average Price
- Top Skills and Courses to Launch Your Career in Quantitative Trading
- Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
- Walk-Forward Optimization for Trading Systems
Behavioral Finance
80 terms- Affect Heuristic
- Anchoring and Adjustment
- Anchoring Bias
- Attribution Bias
- Availability Heuristic
- Backtesting Bias in Trading Strategies
- Bag Holder
- Bandwagon Effect
- Base Rate Fallacy
- Behavioral Analysis
- Behavioral Biases
- Behavioral Finance
- Belief Bias in Investing
- Belief Perseverance
- Best Behavioral Finance Books
- Bounded Rationality
- Capitulation
- Classical Conditioning
- CNN Effect
- Cockroach Theory
- Cognitive Dissonance in Investing
- Confirmation Bias in Investing
- Context Effects
- Crowd Psychology
- Dash to Trash
- Data Bias
- Decision-Making Biases
- Disposition Effect
- Dotcom Bubble
- Durability Bias in Investing
- Efficient Market Hypothesis
- Emotional Investing
- Endowment Effect
- Framing Bias
- Gambler's Fallacy
- Halo Effect
- Herd Mentality
- Heuristics
- Hindsight Bias
- Hot Hand
- House Money Effect
- How to Build Discipline as an Investor in Volatile Markets
- Illusion of Control Bias in Trading
- Investment Psychology
- Investor Confidence
- Irrational Exuberance
- Irrational Thinking in Investing
- January Effect
- Look-Ahead Bias
- Loss Aversion Bias
- Market Anomalies
- Market Efficiency
- Media Effect
- Melt Up
- Money Illusion
- Narrative Fallacy
- Nintendo vs Sony
- Noise
- Noise Trader
- Noise Trading in Indian Markets
- Optimism Bias
- Overconfidence Bias
- Panic Buying
- Panic Selling
- Price Bubble
- Prospect Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Recency Bias
- Regret Theory
- Representativeness Heuristic
- Semi-Strong Form Efficiency
- Status Quo Bias
- Stock Market Bubble
- Stock Market Psychology
- Strong Form Efficiency
- Survivorship Bias
- Tulip Mania
- Underreaction
- Weak Form Efficiency
- Winner's Curse
Fraud & Investor Safety
49 terms- Anti-Bribery And Corruption
- Asset Misappropriation
- Back Running
- Backdating
- Blackout Period
- Breach of Trust
- Bribery
- Cease And Desist
- Compliance Cost
- Cornering the Market
- Currency Transaction Report
- Duty Of Disclosure
- Facilitating Payment
- Financial Compliance
- Financial Crime
- Financial Investigation
- Fraudulent Transfer
- Free Riding
- Front Running
- How Social Media Increases Fraud Risks in Financial Services
- Information Leakage
- Insider Information
- Insider Trading
- Is XS Ltd safe or a scam broker? XS.com Analysis
- Market Manipulation
- Material Nonpublic Information
- Misrepresentation
- Nigerian Scam
- Painting The Tape
- Phishing
- Proceeds of Crime
- Proceeds Of Crime Act
- Pump and Dump
- Quote Stuffing
- Securities Fraud
- Self-Trade
- Selling Away
- Slush Fund
- Spoofing
- Spoofing In Trading
- Suspicious Activity Report
- Taping Rule
- The Growing Risk of AI-Generated Fakes in Financial Documents
- The Hidden Risks of Online Trading
- The Prediction-Market Industry Introduces New Measures to Prevent Insider Trading
- UK Bribery Act
- Wash Sale Rule
- Wash Trading
- Wire Fraud and Digital Investment Scams
Economy & Indicators
24 terms- Business Sector
- Capital Intensive Businesses
- Consumer Cyclical
- Consumer Discretionary
- Cyclical Industry
- Defensive Industries
- Economic Sector
- Financial Sector
- FOMC Dot Plot
- Fortune Global 500
- Growth Industry
- Harvard MBA Indicator
- Hotelling's Theory
- Industry Classification
- Industry vs Sector
- Market Failure
- Market Growth
- Market Indicators
- Market Potential
- Money Market Yield
- Private Sector
- Public Sector vs Private Sector
- The 7 Sectors Every Investor Should Watch in a Bull Market
- Trade Facilitation
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