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Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

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Investment Trust

A company that pools money together from multiple investors and then invests it.
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Equity ETF

An exchange-traded fund that is comprised of a set of stocks.
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Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.
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Time-Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR)

A return calculated over the time period invested, that excludes extraneous elements, such as deposits to and withdrawals from the investment accounted.
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After-hours trading

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.
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Venture Capital

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

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.
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52-week high/low

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.
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Professional Client

An investor that is able to meet several regulatory criteria.
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