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A system that facilitates the transfer of securities from one trading account to another at a different brokerage firm or bank. ACATS can be used to transfer stocks, bonds, cash, unit trusts, mutual funds, options, and other investment products. The system may be required when an investor wants to move their account from Broker Company A to Broker Company B.
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After market hours. US markets are generally open Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 4PM Eastern Time Zone. After-hours trading sessions can run as late as 8PM Eastern Time.
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(also called automated trading, black-box trading, or algo-trading) uses a computer program that follows a defined set of instructions (an algorithm) to place a trade. The trade, in theory, can generate profits at a speed and frequency that is impossible for a human trader.
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Q&A interview with a subject matter expert via video & comments or comments only.
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Similar to net worth except for financial institutions. The approximate value of their positions and cash. There are different categories of assets under management.[3]
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Use autistic to describe someone that actually does due diligence and knows what they are doing
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A shareholder left holding shares of worthless stocks after a SHF or other financial terrorist completed a "pump and dump.
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Another term for GME stock in reference to the 'Ape' persona. One guy put a real banana is his butt (see wagers)
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A measurement of the volatility of a stock compared to the market in general (the S&P 500 for the most part).[5]
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When market conditions produce rising prices or are expected to produce rising prices.[8]
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An options contract that gives the buyer of the contract the ability to purchase 100 shares of a given underlying asset for a specified price before a given expiration. A call can be referred to as “deep” if its strike price is far away from the current underlying price.[9]
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Put in place to interrupt price changing momentum and make sure that information is properly disseminated throughout the market when big moves happen. Could apply to the entire market or specific securities.[10]
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The end of a trading session in the financial markets. Closing can also refer to closing out, or completing, a trade—or to the end of a deal or transaction, depending on the context.
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Assets or cash provided to a lender to give them an acceptable risk exposure profile.[11]
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Periods of time where the price of a security bounces around between a rough high and a rough low. (See image)
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Would you take advice from anyone who eats crayons all day long? I don't think so. Also, crayons are made of wax, like candles, and lot so the more advanced stonk charts look like candles, so eating candles is like eating crayons cause wax, right?
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Cryptocurrency is a digital asset distributed across a decentralized network (e.g. many computers) .[12]
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A private exchange that is allegedly designed to allow large trades that do not affect the market price of a security as a result of bookkeeping share transfers.[13]
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AKA Deep Dive – Information, data, and research organized in a meaningful way to support a conclusion.
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An options contract where the strike price is very far away from the current underlying price.
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A position that derives its value from something else. For example, options are derivatives of their underlying assets.[14]
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Sum of money paid regularly, typically every quarter, by a company to its shareholders.[17]
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Made famous from the movie "The Big Short". Saw 2008 coming before it happened. Was previously long on GME and wrote letters to The Board of Directors. Paper handed in 2020.
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A self-regulatory organization that handles the backend of trade settlements. Some subsidiaries of the DTCC include the NSCC, DTC, and FICC. [15][16]
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A technical indicator that characterizes price movements based on how price movements typically occur.[18]
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A type of mutual fund that is bought or sold on exchanges throughout the day. Most of them are index funds
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When the European stock markets open up and they start selling because they lack economic stimulus
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Propaganda tactic to influence perception. Learn more here.
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A private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization (SRO) which regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets.
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FINRA only releases official short interest every 2 weeks, but these people estimate it using different formulas in the time between, but some have change how they compute this lately, in some awfully convenient ways.
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The number of shares available for public trading as opposed to restricted stock or stock held by company insiders.[21]
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A fear of missing out trade occurs when you notice a sharp rally or slump in a stock, and the desire to join in on the price movement
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A failure to produce a share for settlement within the standard settlement timeframe.[20]
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Investing or trading based on data of a stock. Some examples include cash flow, projected earnings, debt to equity, etc.[22]
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Massive call buying leading to higher stock prices, which in turn leads to more call buying, further increasing the stock price.[28][29]
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The ticker symbol for GameStop Corp. common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
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Reddit lets you vote on if a bot did something good or annoying. Tell a bot it is good or bad is like up or downvoting.
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A meme expression referring to a really big mistake in investment, this is derived from a famous incident explained here. Ex: When you account goes from $4000 to $0 in 30 seconds.
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Buying or selling securities to help reduce the risk of loss for an existing position.[24]
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A type of pooled investment fund that actively manages positions in an attempt to make a profit
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Algorithmic trading method conducted by computers to transact large numbers of orders in fractions of a second.[25]
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Saying things in public can get iffy, and who knows who's reading this? People who might even worry that people were maybe trying to get away with things, like manipulating games of chess, hopscotch, etc. Luckily, that is NOT what happens here. We are just a bunch of idiots chatting away about a stonk we like, and so, we say that. Just helps make sure nobody is confused about that.
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A type of mutual fund that holds the same securities to match or track components of a financial market index.[27]
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An options contract where the underlying asset price has reached the strike price. Can be referred to as a “deep” option which means it’s far away from the current underlying price
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The OG who invested in GME stock focusing on its value and bringing attention to its shorting problem. Roars like a kitty, stings like a bee. Also, not a cat, and therein lies the irony.
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with the right lever, a small investment can lead to a big gain or big loss, hence the name.
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An order type that expresses a desire to exchange a security at a specific price or better.[30][31]
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When positions are closed, usually by force of margin call. Usually large positions and usually liquidated quickly, causing very large changes in price.[32]
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The property of being able to be exchanged for cash quickly. More liquid securities can be exchanged quickly for cash and less liquid securities might have delays. If there is a liquidity problem with an entity, you might not be able to get cash from an entity.[33]
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Indicates a bullish strategy such as buying calls, selling puts, buying and holding stock, etc. The belief is that the value will go up.
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A technical indicator that emphasizes changes in pricing trends
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Essentially an account that gives you temporary loans to increase your ability to take advantage of market conditions.[35][36][37]
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When a financial institution demands additional collateral to maintain a lower risk exposure profile. Also a movie that dramatically depicts something like the 2008 financial crisis from the perspective of a company that is overleveraged.[37][38][39]
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The price at which the largest number of option holders will suffer financial losses at expiration.[40]
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A firm or individual that buys and sell securities for its own account, at prices it displays in its exchange’s trading system, with the primary goal of profiting on the bid-ask spread
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Reaching massive gains (highs), usually used to indicate the final destination of the investment
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Collectively, the media that a regular person might view. Television news channels, newspapers, magazines, etc. Generally they’re recognizable household names.
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A security that allocates its funds to different underlying securities in a proportion. Exchange-traded funds are a type of mutual fund. Buying a mutual fund is like buying a portfolio. They tend to be designed to diversify holdings and reduce risk for the holder. They are bought or sold based on their price at the day’s end.[43]
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A naked call is an options strategy in which an investor writes (sells) call options on the open market without owning the underlying security.
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The illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist. Learn more here.[44]
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A way to represent anything unique as an Ethereum-based asset.[45][46]
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If you provide financial advice online, you could be legally liable if it doesn't work out. That's why people on this site are continually reminding everyone that they are not giving financial advice, nor financial advisors. It is also why people are so into crayons, and calling ourselves idiots and such, just to make clear, none of us are experts, so none of this is financial advice. This place is a great way to share publicly available information, and spew nonsense, that is all.
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Measures the buying and selling pressure as a cumulative indicator. (e.g. adds volume on up days and subtracts volume on down days)[47]
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Indicates how many of a particular kind of position are being carried from day to day.[48]
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A contract that allows the buying or selling of 100 shares of an underlying asset for a specified price before an expiration. Options have an extrinsic value (commonly known as decay or time value) and potentially intrinsic value (strike price difference with underlying asset price). The seller of an option is also called the writer.[49][50]
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An options contract where the underlying asset price has not reached the strike price. Can be referred to as a “deep” option which means it’s far away from the current underlying price.[51]
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Used to describe transactions done on dark pools. Honestly should be “under the counter” instead.[52]
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A compensation scheme between brokerages and market makers where retail investor orders get routed through the market makers. This is opposed to the retail investor paying the brokerage a commission on trades.[53][54]
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Before market hours. US markets are generally open Monday through Friday from 9:30 AM to 4PM Eastern Time Zone. Some trading days have an early close and some trading days don’t happen on account of holidays.[55]
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The technical meaning of this term is a scheme designed to temporarily boost the price of a security through false, misleading, or exaggerated claims. Commonly, people may refer to any substantial price move up followed by a drop as a pump and dump even if it doesn’t qualify for the technical meaning.[56]
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An options contract that gives the buyer of the contract the ability to sell 100 shares of a given underlying asset for a specified price before a given expiration. A put can be referred to as “deep” if its strike price is far away from the current underlying price.[57][58]
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A rule created by the SEC in 2005 designed to address abusive short selling practices
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Stock that is subject to conditions about when and how transfers take place.[63]
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Everyday investors. This is diff than institutional holders (IH), shares owned by large financial institutions which cannot easily be bought or sold quickly, certainly not without all sorts of public declarations.
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The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum indicator used in technical analysis that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions in the price of a stock or other asset
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Chairman of the Board of GameStopPart. Transformed his prior company, Chewy, into an e-commerce success story. GME recently appointed him to head up a committee to help GME expand in e-commerce.
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A regulatory and enforcement agency of the United States federal government. More info here.
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The process that happens transparently to you after you buy or sell a position. You might own that position on paper, but it takes time for everything to go through.
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Indicates a bearish strategy such as selling calls, buying puts, or short selling stock. The belief is that the value will go down. Also used as a shorthand for “short selling.”[64]
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A planned and coordinated attack by an activist short seller that involves taking out a large short position and then attempting to drive the price down with negative information. Learn more here.
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The open interest of short shares, typically expressed as a percentage of float.[[65]](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortinterest.asp#:~:text=Short%20interest%20is%20the%20number,(potentially%20overly%2Dpessimistic)
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An arrangement where a party will borrow shares of a stock from a stock holder for a regular fee and sell the shares on the market. At a later time, they will buy back the shares to cover and return them to the lender. The idea is to profit on the reduction in the stock price by selling immediately and buying back later. If the company goes bankrupt, then there’s no need for covering.
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A situation where there are more shares sold short than can be covered on current liquidity. This causes the price to spike because demand exceeds supply.[68]
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You are forgetting where you are, so here is a reminder. None of this is financial advice. We all just eat crayons here, and tell tall tales for fun.
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An expression that refers to a person with a lower level of thinking or the ability to understand simple concepts. Apparently the grooves in your brain determines your intelligence.
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A company with no commercial operations. It exists entirely to raise capital and buy an existing company.[69]Nice [70]
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When a security drops by 10% or more from the previous day’s closing price, it gets put on short sale restriction. This prevents short selling on “downticks” (price movements downward). Once invoked, it’s active until the end of the next trading day, provided that the stock doesn’t re-trigger the effect.[66][67]
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Securities representing companies, assets, or baskets of companies and assets. They have a price and the value changes over time.
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Slang for stocks, can sometimes be used as an ironic term to describe poor financial decision
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The arranged price of an options contract. It is set when the contract is opened and cannot be changed.[72]
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Formed when a share is sold short. The share is borrowed and then the buyer also has a share. Now there are two shares.[73][74]
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Number of days after the transaction. T+2 means two days after the transaction. Lots of rules surrounding settlement are done on the basis of the transaction date.[75]
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Periods of time where the price of a security does not move very much. Learn more here.
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The amount of movement of a measurement. Low price volatility means the price does not move much, for example. The term “volatility” is used for both prices and volumes and can be as specific as a stock or as broad as the market. Options have an implied volatility component.[79]
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The quantity of transactions for a given security. Volume is typically measured against the 10-day average for volume.[80]
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An investor or institute with deep pockets who can move the market by buying or selling in large volumes.
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People's wife's husband's grandmother's uncle's dog's boyfriend is a very, very busy dude, but really likes HFs these days.
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May eat a lot of crayons, but good at finding patterns that indicate paths to the moon.
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The biggest ETF that has been used to tank GMEs price and make it seem like nothing shady is going on.
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Ryan Cohen often tweets strange riddles, and this is a famous one that people have tried to decode. Then DFV posts a frog mario with an ice-cream cone. Rabit hole.
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Being rational about your holdings and not allowing common emotional biases to dictate your entries or exits. Specifically holding regardless of gains or losses.
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Allowing your emotions to dictate your investment or trading behavior. Specifically not holding through gains and losses.
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Company
Company
BCG - Boston Consulting Group
BlackRock
Citadel
CNBC
Computershare
Credit Sussie
Etoro
Etrade
Fidelity
FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
A private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization (SRO) which regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets.
GME - GameStop stock
The ticker symbol for GameStop Corp. common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
IEX
IMX
Internation Brokers (IBKR)
LRC
Melvin Capital
MM - Market Makers
A firm or individual that buys and sell securities for its own account, at prices it displays in its exchange’s trading system, with the primary goal of profiting on the bid-ask spread
MSM - Mainstream media
Collectively, the media that a regular person might view. Television news channels, newspapers, magazines, etc. Generally they’re recognizable household names.
NSCC - National Securities Clearing Corporation
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
Popcorn
Robinhood
Susquehana
TD Amerittrade (TDA)
Vanguard
Webull
Person
Person
Apes 🐒🦧🦍
A person who owns stonks
Dr. Michael J. Burry
Made famous from the movie "The Big Short". Saw 2008 coming before it happened. Was previously long on GME and wrote letters to The Board of Directors. Paper handed in 2020.
Gabe Plotkin & Melvin Capital
GG - Gary Gensler
Current Chair of the SEC. Not to be confused with "gg" (good game)
Jeff Yass & Susquehana
Founder of Susquehana
Jerome Powell
Jim Cramer
Keith Gill - aka DFV, u/DeepFuckingValue, Roaring Kitty
The OG who invested in GME stock focusing on its value and bringing attention to its shorting problem. Roars like a kitty, stings like a bee. Also, not a cat, and therein lies the irony.
Ken Griffin
Matt Furlong
Ryan Cohen
Chairman of the Board of GameStopPart. Transformed his prior company, Chewy, into an e-commerce success story. GME recently appointed him to head up a committee to help GME expand in e-commerce.
Steve Cohen & Point72
Founder of Point72. No relation
Tendieman
Where tendies come from. Or Tendiewoman, depends who's on shift that day.
u/Rick_of_Spades
He really likes bananas
Vlad Tenev & Robinhood
Vladimir Tenev
Wu Tang
💎🙌 - Diamond hands
Being rational about your holdings and not allowing common emotional biases to dictate your entries or exits. Specifically holding regardless of gains or losses.
🧻🙌 - Paper Hands
Allowing your emotions to dictate your investment or trading behavior. Specifically not holding through gains and losses.
Finance
Finance
BlackRock
Citadel
Computershare
Credit Sussie
Etoro
Etrade
Fidelity
FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
A private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization (SRO) which regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets.
GG - Gary Gensler
Current Chair of the SEC. Not to be confused with "gg" (good game)
GME - GameStop stock
The ticker symbol for GameStop Corp. common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
IEX
IMX
Internation Brokers (IBKR)
LRC
Melvin Capital
MM - Market Makers
A firm or individual that buys and sell securities for its own account, at prices it displays in its exchange’s trading system, with the primary goal of profiting on the bid-ask spread
NSCC - National Securities Clearing Corporation
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
Robinhood
Susquehana
TD Amerittrade (TDA)
💎🙌 - Diamond hands
Being rational about your holdings and not allowing common emotional biases to dictate your entries or exits. Specifically holding regardless of gains or losses.
🧻🙌 - Paper Hands
Allowing your emotions to dictate your investment or trading behavior. Specifically not holding through gains and losses.
GME
GME
Computershare
GME - GameStop stock
The ticker symbol for GameStop Corp. common stock on the New York Stock Exchange
Matt Furlong
Ryan Cohen
Chairman of the Board of GameStopPart. Transformed his prior company, Chewy, into an e-commerce success story. GME recently appointed him to head up a committee to help GME expand in e-commerce.
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