Tag: stocks
Bear Market
A bear market refers to a market in which the prices of securities take a dip resulting in significant losses. It is quite difficult...
Bagging the Street
What is 'Bagging the Street' An investor's failure to avoid trading in the stocks that are part of a block and also...
Bull Market
DefinitionA market trend is a perceived tendency of financial markets to move in a particular direction over time. These trends are classified as secular...
Backtesting
DefinitionBacktesting is a term used in modeling to refer to testing a predictive model on historical data. Backtesting is a type of retrodiction, and...
Canadian Income Trust
What is 'Canadian Income Trust' A type of corporate structure as designated by the Canada Revenue Agency that operates as a profit-seeking...
Standard Deviation
In mathematics, standard deviation is the degree of the dispersion from a set of data’s mean. The SD is higher when the data is...
Canadian Originated Preferred Securities (COPrS)
What is 'Canadian Originated Preferred Securities - COPrS' A long-term subordinated debt instrument issued in Canada. COPrS (pronounced "coppers") are a type...
Calendar Effect
DefinitionA calendar effect is any market anomaly or economic effect which appears to be related to the calendar. Such effects include the apparently different...
Correction
Corrections are price declines that are temporary, and interrupt the uptrend of an asset in the market. A correction can work as a precursor...
Cup and Handle
DefinitionIn the domain of technical analysis of market prices, a cup and handle or cup with handle formation is a chart pattern consisting of...