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A secular trend is something that changes over time, but is not necessarily an element in a repeated, continuing cycle.

What is the Advance Decline Ratio? The advance decline ratio is used to determine how the market performed on a given day. It does this by comparin...

What is the Dow Theory? Dow Theory is a collection of indicators and definitions of the types of market signals for indicating a Bull or Bear marke...

What is the Efficient Markets Theory? The Efficient Markets Theory says that stocks trade at their fair value all of the time, assuming all informa...

What are Capital Markets? The most often context used for “Capital Markets” is in corporate finance and investment banking, and it refers prima...

What are overbought and oversold? Hit play to find out.

What is Alpha? Alpha is an investing term that describes the success of an investment. It looks at the investment’s ability to beat beta (or mark...

What is short interest theory? Watch this not-so-short video to find out.

What is a thin market, and has it been on Jenny Craig recently?

What is Above Full Employment Equilibrium? Above Full Employment Equilibrium happens when an economy is basically doing more than it realistically...

What is Counterparty Risk? Counterparty risk is the risk to either party within a transaction that the other will not or be unable to abide by the...

What is the Fast Market Rule? The fast market rule is something that is used in the U.K. to keep the market under control when any sort of crash ha...

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? The Dow Jones Industrial Average is usually just called the Dow. It’s an average of 30 of the most well...

What is Arbitrage? Arbitrage is a trading strategy used to make risk-free money. The investor buys a security in one market and sells it in another...

What do you need to retire? Retirement - think: 401k, pension fund, IRA, roth IRA, etc. All of these savings socked away while you worked hard are...

What is After Tax Yield? After tax yield is simply how much an investment makes (or yields) after taxes have been paid. This term refers to bond yi...

What is the S&P 500? It's Standard & Poor's 500 generally largest companies, with a U.S. domestic bias. The S&P 500 is usually what investors think...

A liquid market is a market featuring high trading volumes, i.e. investors actually want to put their cash to work.

What is a Country Basket (Index Fund)? Investing internationally can be a challenge, as foreign exchange, different accounting rules, time zones an...

What is a Day Trade? A day trade is a trade done in the public markets where the buy and the sell are both done on the same day, thus marking the n...