7 Key Terms

Question 1

A stock’s average price-per-share during a specific period of time. Some time frames are 50 and 200 day _____ ______.

Answer 1

Moving Average

Question 2

A collection of investments owned by an investor.

Answer 2

Portfolio

Question 3

Information on a stock’s latest trading price. This is sometimes delayed by 20 minutes, unless you are using an actual broker trading platform.

Answer 3

Quote

Question 4

A rapid increase in the general price level of the market or of the price of an individual stock.

Answer 4

Rally

Question 5

A group of stocks that are in the same business. An example would be the “Technology” _____, including companies like Apple and Microsoft.

Answer 5

Sector

Question 6

A one to three-character, alphabetic root symbol that represents a publicly traded company on a stock exchange.

Answer 6

Stock Symbol

Question 7

This refers to the measure of the return on an investment that is received from the payment of a dividend.

Answer 7

Yield