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52-Week High
The highest price at which a security has traded during the preceding fifty-two weeks.
Market Basics & Instruments52-Week Low
The lowest price at which a security has traded during the preceding fifty-two weeks.
Financial Statements & AccountingAccrual Accounting
The convention of recording revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred, regardless of when cash moves.
Bonds & Fixed IncomeAccrued Interest
Interest earned on a bond since the last coupon payment but not yet paid out.
Indicators & OscillatorsAccumulation/Distribution Line
A running total of volume weighted by where each period's close sat within its own range.
Corporate Actions, Dividends & GovernanceAcquisition
One company obtaining control of another by buying its shares or assets, with the target continuing to exist.
Market Psychology & Behavioural FinanceAction Bias
The tendency to prefer doing something over doing nothing, even when action has no expected benefit.
Funds, ETFs & Index InvestingActive Investing
An approach that selects securities in an attempt to earn more than the index return.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationAdditional Surveillance Measure
An exchange framework placing restrictions on securities showing unusual price or volume behaviour.
Corporate Actions, Dividends & GovernanceAdjusted Price
A historical price restated to account for corporate actions, so that a price series is comparable over time.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationAdvance Tax
Income tax paid in instalments during the financial year rather than as a lump sum at the end.
Indicators & OscillatorsAdvance-Decline Line
A running total of the number of advancing securities minus the number of declining securities each period.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureAfter-Market Order
An order placed outside trading hours that is queued by the broker and released to the exchange when the next session opens.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureAlgorithmic Trading
The use of computer programs to generate and manage orders according to predefined rules, without manual intervention on each order.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureAll-or-None Order
An order that must execute in full or not at all, prohibiting partial fills.
Risk & Portfolio ManagementAlpha
The return earned above what an asset's risk exposure would have predicted.
Fundamental Analysis & ValuationAltman Z-Score
A weighted combination of five financial ratios that estimates a company's likelihood of financial distress.
Derivatives, Futures & OptionsAmerican Option
An option that may be exercised at any time up to and including its expiry date.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationAMFI
The Association of Mutual Funds in India, the industry body that sets standards and publishes industry data.
Financial Statements & AccountingAmortisation
The systematic write-off of an intangible asset's cost over its useful life, the intangible equivalent of depreciation.
Market Psychology & Behavioural FinanceAnalysis Paralysis
The inability to reach a decision because of excessive information gathering and deliberation.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationAnchor Investor
A qualified institutional buyer allotted shares in an IPO a day before the issue opens to the public, at a fixed price.
Indicators & OscillatorsAnchored VWAP
A volume-weighted average price calculated from a chosen starting point rather than from the beginning of the session.
Market Psychology & Behavioural FinanceAnchoring Bias
The tendency to rely too heavily on an initial reference number when making subsequent judgements.