Tag: trading

What is Wash Trading Wash trading is the illegal practice of buying and selling assets in order to artificially inflate the price. This is often...

What is 'Wall Street' Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan that is the original home of the New York Stock...

What is Weak Form Efficiency In finance, weak form efficiency is the idea that prices reflect all information that is publicly available. In other words,...

What is 'Walrasian Market' An economic model of a market process in which orders are collected into batches of buys and sells...

What is 'Warm Calling' The solicitation of a potential customer with whom a sales representative or business has had prior contact. Warm calling refers to...

What is 'Warrant Premium' The amount that an investor must pay above the current market price for a security, when purchasing and...

DefinitionWatered stock is an asset with an artificially-inflated value. The term is most commonly used to refer to a form of securities fraud common...

What is 'Warsaw Stock Exchange - WSE' The largest stock exchange in eastern Europe, located in Warsaw Poland. Trading started on April...

What is 'Wallpaper' The name given to stocks, bonds and other securities that have become worthless. Explaining 'Wallpaper' The...

What is 'Gapping' In general, a trading strategy in which the participant borrows short and lends long. This strategy gives the lender an overall better...