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Scalper A trader who trades for small, short-term profits during the course of a trading session, rarely carrying a position overnight.
Screening A process of choosing potentially interesting stocks from the universe. It includes the application of screens to the database. The best databases allow users to use all types of logic operators ("And," "Or," "No", etc.) and filters: formal, fundamental and technical.
Security Analysis Security analysis seeks to determine the intrinsic value of securities.
Security Selection Decision Choosing the particular securities to include in a portfolio.
Sell To convey ownership of a security or another asset for money or value.
Sell Limit An order to sell a security at a specified price or higher.
Sell Stop An order to sell a security that is entered at a price below the current market price.
Short To sell a stock short. An individual who is holding a short in a particular security. Here, also called short seller. Opposite of long.
Short Interest Rate A one-period interest rate.
Short Position Stock shares that an individual has sold short and has not yet covered, as of a particular date.
Short Sale Borrowing a security from a broker and selling it, with the understanding that it must later be bought back (hopefully at a lower price) and returned to the broker. Short selling is a technique used by investors who try to profit from the falling price of a stock.
Sideways Market Situation that occurs when prices move within a narrow range, with minimal fluctuations.
Slippage Situation when stop order is carried out at more worse rate, than it has been ordered at his exhibiting to the broker. Such phenomenon could be met at quickly varying market. For example, it can occur after an output of the important fundamental data, during performances of known politicians. It is not obviously possible to execute the warrant at the set rate, if the quotation overcomes the set level sharp jump. The size slippage can vary from one item up to several tens items. Frequently slippage takes place at opening trade on Sunday in the evening when rates of opening differ from rates of closing.
Soft currency The currency exchanged for other currencies with some restrictions.
Soft Dollars The value of research services that brokerage houses supply to investment managers free of charge in exchange for the investment managers business commissions.
Specialist A stock exchange member who makes a market for certain exchange-traded securities, maintaining an inventory of those securities and standing ready to buy and sell shares as necessary to maintain an orderly market for those shares.
Speculation Taking large risks, especially with respect to trying to predict the future; gambling, in the hopes of making quick, large gains.
Speculative-Grade Bond Bond rated Ba or lower by Moody`s, or BB or lower by S & P, or an unrated bond.
Speculator The person that ready to risk funds at fulfillment of trading operations for the sake of reception of the profit.
Spike Significant difference of the subsequent quotation from previous. Graphic representation of the culmination moment in the market, describing most rigid "collision" of buyers and sellers. Characterizes nervousness of the market. Soldering can appear at the moment of an output of especially important news for the market. However there are situations when soldering appears on the screen without the weighty reasons; such meets in the narrow market. It either "overindulgence" of operators, or special shaking of the market.
Split An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a company's stock, such that proportionate equity of each shareholder remains the same. This requires approval from the board of directors and shareholders. A corporation whose stock is performing well may choose to split its shares, distributing additional shares to existing shareholders. The most common split is two-for-one, in which each share becomes two shares. The reverse split is a stock split which reduces the number of outstanding shares and increases the per-share price proportionately. This is usually an attempt by a company to disguise a falling stock price, since the actual market capitalization of the stock does not change at all.
Spot Normally settlement for two working days from today.
Spot Rate The rate for purchase or sale of a foreign currency for delivery on the spot date (immediate delivery as defined in spot date).
Spread The difference between the current bid and the current ask.
Spread (futures) Long one future and short another. Both have the same underlier, but they have different maturities.
Spread (options) The purchase of one option and the simultaneous sale of a related option, such as two options of the same class but different strike prices and/or expiration dates.
Square Purchase and sales are in balance and thus the dealer has no open position.
Squeeze Situation in which investors who hold long positions feel the need to sell into a falling market to cut their losses, which leads to a further decline in market prices. Short squeeze is a situation in which the price of the stock rises and investors who sold short rush to buy it to cover their short position and cut their losses.
Standard Deviation A statistical measure of the historical volatility of a mutual fund or portfolio, usually computed using 36 monthly returns. More generally, a measure of the extent to which numbers are spread around their average.
Sterling Trader jargon for the British Pound Sterling referring to the Sterling/US Dollar exchange rate.
Stock An instrument that signifies an ownership position in a corporation, and represents a claim on its proportional share in the corporation's assets and profits.
Stock Exchanges An exchange on which shares of stock and common stock equivalents are bought and sold.
Stock Split An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a company's stock, such that proportionate equity of each shareholder remains the same.
Stop-Limit Order A combination of a stop order and limit order - that is, the order becomes a limit order after the specified stop price has been reached.
Stop Loss Order Order to buy or sell at the best available price when a given price threshold has been reached.
Straddle The purchase or sale of an equal number of puts and calls, with the same strike price and expiration dates. A straddle provides the opportunity to profit from a prediction about the future volatility of the market.
Strike Price The specified price on an option contract at which the contract may be exercised, whereby a call option buyer can buy the underlier or a put option buyer can sell the underlier.
Strip, Strap Strip is a combination of two puts and one call options of the same series, with the same underlying security, exercise price and expiration date. Strap is a combination of two calls and one put options of the same series, with the same underlying security, exercise price and expiration date.
Substitution Swap Exchange of one bond for another with similar attributes but a more attractive price.
Support A price level under which it is supposedly difficult for a stock or stock index to fall.
Swap See Currency Swap.
Swissy Market slang for Swiss Franc.

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