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Hedge Fund

Hedge Fund

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.

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Hypothesis Testing

A mathematical test used to determine whether a claim is true or false.

Income statement

A summary of a company's income and expenses over a set period of time.

Ponzi Scheme

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

Profit and Loss Statement (P&L)

A statement that summarises firm's expenses, costs, and revenues incurred during a time period. AKA income statement.

Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

Limit order

Learn what a limit order is and how to use it to make the most of your portfolio.

Zero-Sum Game

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Money laundering

A method of moving money obtained illicitly through the financial system so it can be used legally.

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