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Financial Glossary

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10-K -- 12B-1 Fees --200-Day Moving Average -- 30-Day Annualized Yield -- 401(k) Plan -- 403(b) Plan -- 7-Day Annualized Yield

Accountant Accounting Accumulation Phase Acid Test Ratio Active Management Advance/Decline Line After-Hours Trading Agency Bond	Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) American Depository Receipts (ADRs) American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Annual Percentage Rate (APR) Annual Report Annuity	Arms Index Ascending Triangle Asset Allocation Assets Under Mgmt. (AUM) Audit Average Daily Balance Method

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Baby Bonds Back Testing Backlog Basing Pattern Basis Point Bear Market Beige Book Bellwether Benchmark Beneficiary Best Ask Best Bid Best-Price Rule Beta Bid Size Bid-Ask Spread	Bid/Offer Price Big Board Black Friday Black Monday Black Thursday Black Tuesday Black-Scholes Model Block Trade Blue Chip Bollinger Bands Bonds Book Value	Breakaway Gap Breakpoint Broadening Top Bull Market Bureau of Public Debt Business Development Company Buy and Hold "Buy On Stop" Orders "Buy On Stop w/Limit" Buyout

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Call Option Call Protection Call Provision Call Risk Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) Capital Gain Capital Gains Distribution Capital Gains Treatment Capital Intensive Capital Loss Capitulation Cartel Cash Dividend Certificate of Deposit Channel Line Chapter 7 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Chicago Mercantile Exchange	Class A Shares Closed-End Fund Collateral Commercial Paper Commission Commodity Common Stock Compounding Confirming Averages Consolidation Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) Consumer Price Index (CPI)Consumer Staples Convertible Preferred Stock Cost Basis Coupon	Coupon Bond Coupon Equivalent Rate Coupon Equivalent Yield Coupon Rate Covenant Coverage Ratio Credit Ratings Current Yield CUSIP Cyclical Industry Cyclical Stock

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Dark Cloud Cover Day Trader Dead Cat Bounce Debentures Debt Ratio Debt-to-Equity Ratio Deduction Default Risk Defensive Stock Deficit Defined Benefit Plan Defined Contribution Plan Deflation Department of Labor Depreciation Deregulation Dilution Discount Rate (Interest) Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis	Distribution Diversification Divestiture Dividend Dividend-Capture Strategy Dividend Declaration Date Dividend ETF Dividend Payable Date Dividend Payout Ratio Dividend Record Date Dividend Yield Doji Candlestick Dollar Cost Averaging Dow Theory	Downtick Dragonfly Doji DRIP Plan Dual-Class Stock Due Diligence Duopoly Duration Dutch Auction

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Early Withdrawal Penalty Tax Earnings Per Share (EPS)Earnings Season Earnings Yield EBITDA Economic Moat Economies of Scale Economies of Scope Education Savings Acct (ESA) Effective Annual Interest Rate Effective Tax Rate Effective Yield Efficient Frontier Efficient Market Hypothesis Emerging Market Fund	Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Engulfing Candlesticks Enhanced Income Security Enterprise Value (EV) Equity Equity Fund Equity-Linked Securities (ELKS) Equivalent Taxable Interest Rate Eurodollar	Evening Star Candlestick Formation Exchange-Rate Risk Exchange-Traded Funds - ETFs Exchangeable Bonds Ex-Dividend Date Expense Ratio Extraordinary Item

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Face Value Fair Value Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Federal Farm Credit System Federal Funds Rate Federal Reserve Fiduciary	Fiscal Year Flag Formation Flat Tax Flight to Quality Float Floor Trader Fortune 500	Forward Dividend Yield Four-Month Rule Freddie Mac Free Cash Flow Front-End Load Funds from Operations (FFO) Futures

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GAAP Gaps Gaps - Exhaustion and Runaway Gaps from a Japanese Candlestick Viewpoint	General Partner (GP) Green Shoe Option Gross Domestic Product (GDP)	Growth Stock Guarantee

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Hammer Candle Hangman Candle Harami Candle	Head and Shoulders Pattern Head and Shoulders Bottom Hedge	Hedge Fund High Wave Candle

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Income Deposit Security (IDS) Income Fund Indenture Agreement Index Index Fund Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Inflation Inflation Risk Institutional Ownership Interest Coverage Ratio	Interest Rate Interest Rate Risk Interlisting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) International Bond Fund International Monetary Fund (IMF) Intrinsic Value Inverted Hammer Investor's Intelligence	IPO Irrational Exuberance IRS Form 1099

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January Effect	Junk Bond

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Laddering LEAPS Letter of Credit Leveraged Buyout Liability Limited Partnership	Liquidity Listed Security Load	Long-Legged Doji Candlestick Long-Term Debt

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MACD MACD Histogram MACD Divergence MACD Zero Line Macroeconomics Managed Distribution Policy Margin of Safety Market Capitalization Market Indices Market Timing Marubozu Candle Master Limited Partnership (MLP)	Maturity McClellan Oscillator McClellan Sum. Index Measuring Principle Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Monetary Policy Money Market Monopoly Mortgage-Backed Securities Moving Averages	Multiple Moving Ave. Simple vs. Exp. MA Municipal Bond Municipal Bond Fund Municipal Investment Trust Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) Mutual Fund Mutual Fund Share Classes

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Nasdaq Net Asset Value Net Income	New Highs Indicator	No-Load Fund

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Odd Lot Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) On Balance Volume (OBV)	Operating Margin Options as Equity Surr.	Overall Mkt Indicators

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Parabolic SAR P/E Ratio Piercing Candle Pink Sheets Preferred Stock	Present Value Price/Volume Analysis Prime Rate Principal Profit Warning	Prospectus Put/Call Ratio Putable Bonds

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Quadruple Witching Qualitative Analysis Quantitative Analysis Quick Ratio

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Random Walk Theory Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Rectangle Formation Refunding Protection Relative Strength Index (RSI) Relative Strength Line Retail Investor Retained Earnings Retracement Levels	Return of Capital RevPAR Revenue Per Employee Reverse Mortgage Royalty Trust RSI Divergence RSI Failure Swing	RSI Filter RSI Limitations RSI Price Patterns RSI Trendlines Russell 2000 Index

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S&P 500 Index Sarbanes-Oxley Act Savings Account Schedule K-1 Secondary Corrections Securities and Exch. (SEC) Serial Bonds Semiconductor ($SOX) Share Classes Short Sale	Self-Employment Tax Setting Stop Losses Shooting Star Candle Small-Cap Stocks Spinning Top Candle Springs and Upthrusts	Stage IV Decline Stalled Pattern Step-Up Bonds Stock Split Streaming Charts STRIPS Symmetrical Triangle

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Taxable Equivalent Yield Tech. vs. Fundamental Three Black Crows	Three White Soldiers Time Deposit Tracking Error Treasury Notes Triple-Bottom Trustee	Turnaround Tweezers Candles

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Underwriter Unemployment Rate

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Variable Costs Venture Capital Vertical Integration Volatility Index (VIX)	Volume Analysis	Volume Spikes

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Warrants Wash Wash Sale Welles Wilder	Will Working Capital

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Yield Curve Yield-to-Call Yield-to-Maturity

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Zero-Coupon Bond

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