Trading Basics
Cyclical Shares
Equities that follow the economic cycle. For example banking shares typically rise and fall with a cycle.
Other 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.
Contango
This is when the futures price of a security is above the cash price at maturity. The opposite is backwardation.
Acquisition
When the majority of shares changes hands in a company.
This is typically when one company buys another.
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