Trading Basics
Triple Witching
A quarterly event whereby index futures, index options and options of individual equities expire.
Other Trading Basics
Acquisition
When the majority of shares changes hands in a company.
This is typically when one company buys another.
Bear Trap
When a piece of analysis points to the market falling and the price instead goes up, trapping the bears.
Book Building
When a new share is issued book building is the process institutions go through to gauge demand and therefore price.
This goes on before the share is available to trade on the exchange.
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