TECHNICAL INDICATOR
Any tool or metric used for gauging and interpreting the overall market behavior by looking at the number of shares traded, previous patterns, ratio of increasing and decreasing stocks, and the number of stocks making a new high or low. It aims to predict future price levels or the overall price director. Bollinger Bands®, MACD, Money Flow Index, Relative Strength Index, and Stochastics are some examples of common technical indicators.
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Return On Assets - ROA
ROA measures the profit a company generates as percentage of its total assets’ value.
Channel Stuffing
Deceptive business practice in which a firm inflates its sales and earnings futures by sending more inventory to retailers than it can sell to the ...
Actuarial Cost Method
A method employed by actuaries for the calculation of the periodic amount that a company has to pay for the coverage of the pension expenses. The t ...
Absolute Priority
It is a rule that says the order of payment when a company liquidates its asset—creditors first before the shareholders. This rule is commonl ...
Gadfly
Colloquial term for an investor criticizing a firm’s executives at the annual shareholders meeting. This shareholder outlines certain issues ...
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