Trading Basics
Convertible Stocks
A loan that the owner can convert to ordinary shares in that company, given a set of conditions defined in the original loan.
Other Trading Basics
Chartist
A market participant or commentator that uses charts to analyse the price of a security.
Balance of Trade
Also BoT. This is the difference between trade into or out of a country.
Experts and imports. It can be negative or positive and is used by traders in fundamental analysis.
Bearer Stocks
Ownership of shares is typically held on a register.
The owner of bearer shares do not get registered, instead they must possess the certificate the prove ownership.
Keep them safe.
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