Trading Basics
Debt
A form of capital funding where there is an obligation to repay what is borrowed, normally with interest.
Other Trading Basics
CAC40
Cotation Assistée en Continu.
The short name for the headline french index which includes 40 companies.
Alpha
This is a measure of price performance vs a benchmark.
If a trader makes 10% per annum and the index makes 7% the trader has an alpha of 3%.
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