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| Datafeed | The supply of information (quotes, news), typically supplied real time, via a continuous feed. |
| Data vendors | Commercial companies which sell data, quotes (either historical or real time), analyst reports, etc. |
| Day Order | An order to buy or sell that, if not executed, expires at the end of trading day on which it was entered. |
| Day Trading | Refers to establishing and liquidating the same position or positions within the same trading session. |
| Dead Cat Bounce | A small upmove in a bear market. |
| Dealer | An individual or firm who buys and sells stocks and bonds as a principal rather than as an agent. |
| Dealer Market | Where trader`s specializing in particular commodities buy and sell assets for their own accounts. For example, the OTC market. |
| Delay | The amount of time that elapses between a change in an input event and the resultant change in a related output event or time series. |
| Deposit | The borrowing and lending of cash. |
| Derivatives | Trades that are constructed or derived from another security (stock, bond, currency, or commodity). Examples of derivative instruments include Options, Interest Rate Swaps, etc. |
| Diamonds DIA | Shares in an ETF, Diamonds Trust Series I, that track the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The fund is structured as a unit investment trust. |
| Direct Quotation | Quoting in fixed units of foreign currency against variable amounts of the domestic currency. For example, USD/BGN. |
| Discount Rate | The interest rate central banks charge their member banks for loans. |
| Divergence | When two or more indicators, indexes, or averages, fail to show confirming trends. |
| Diversification | Dividing investment funds among a variety of securities with different risk, reward, and correlation statistics so as to minimize unsystematic risk. |
| Dividends | A payment made by a company to its shareholders that is a portion of the profits of the company. |
| Doji | A single candle that opens and closes at the same price and is the ultimate form of a spinning top. Usually a sign of indecision and turning point. |
| Double Bottom | A term used in technical analysis to refer to the drop of a stock`s price, a rebound, and then a drop back to the same level as the original drop. |
| Double Top | A term used in technical analysis to refer to the rise of a stock`s price, a drop, and then a rise back to the same level as the original rise. |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) | The most widely recognized market indicator, made up of 30 large and actively traded industrial stocks. |
| Dow Theory | A method of predicting share price trends by identifying primary trends from historic share price data. |
| Downtick | A Down tick is when the last trade in a security is a price lower than the previous. |
| Downtrend | A deflation of prices. |
| Drawdown | Reduction in account equity from a trade or series of trade. |
| Due diligence | An investigation or audit of a potential investment. Due diligence (DD) serves to confirm all material facts in regards to a sale. Offers are usually made dependent upon the due diligence. Includes all financial records plus anything else deemed material to the sale. |
| Duration | A common gauge of the price sensitivity of a fixed income asset or portfolio to a change in interest rates. |
| Dynamic Data Exchange | A method of exchanging data between applications. It enables multiple applications to have access to the same data. Changes made in either application to the data are reflected in the main document. |