Some common terms used in Stock Market :-
Buy – Means to buys shares or take position in a company.
Sell – Getting rid of the shares as you have achieved your goal or want to cut down losses.
Ask – Ask is what people who are looking to sell their stocks are looking to get for their shares.
Bid – Bid is what you are willing to pay for a stock.
Ask-Bid Spread– Spread is the difference between what people want to spend and what people want to get.
Bull – A bull market is a market condition where investors are expecting prices to rise.
Bear – A bear market is a market condition where investors are expecting prices to fall.
Limit Order – A limit order is a type of order which executes at the price placed for buy or sell.
Market Order – A market order is a type of order which executes as quickly as possible at the market price.
Day Order – A day order is a direction to a broker to execute a trade at a specific price that expires at the end of the trading day if it is not complicated.
Volatility – Means how fast a stock moves up or down.
Going Long – Betting on the stock price will increase so that you can buy low and sell high.
Averaging Down – This is when an investor buys as the stock goes down so as to increase the price at which purchased.
Capitalization – This is what the market thinks a company’s value is.
Float – This is the number of shares which can be actually traded after deducting the shares held by insiders.
Authorized Shares – This is the total number of shares that a company can trade.
IPO – It is an Initial Public Offering that happens when the private company becomes a publicly traded company.
Secondary Offering – This is another offering in order to sell more stocks and to raise more money form the public.
Dividend – Portion of the company’s earning which is paid to the shareholders.
Broker – A broker is a person who buy or sell stocks on your behalf.
Exchange – An exchange is a place where different types of investment are traded.
Portfolio – A collection of investments owned by you.
Margin – Margin account lets a person to borrow money from the broker to buy shares.
Sector – A group of stocks in the same sector.
Stock Symbol – A one to three character alphabet root symbol which represents a company listed on the exchange.