Trading Basics
Earnings Per Share
Also EPS. Its the net earnings of a company divided by the number of shares in issue.
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.
Bottom Up Analysis
A form of fundamental analysis which starts with analysis of the individual parts.
Bottom up analysis of an index would involve the analysis of each company in that index.
Cable
Another name for the GBP – USD exchange.
Around half a trillion dollars is traded between the two currencies everyday, making it the third most popular currency pair to trade in behind EUR – USD and USD – JPY.
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