Stock Market Terminology Explained

Stock Market Dictionary for the past year investor:

- Momentum Investing - The fine art of buying high and selling low.

- Value Investing - The art of buying low and selling lower.

- Broker - Poorer than you were last year.

- P/E ratio - The percentage of investors wetting their pants as this market keeps crashing.

- Standard & Poor - Your life in a nut shell.

- Stock Analyst - Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

- Bull Market - A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

- Bear Market - A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry and the husband gets no sex.

- Stock split - When your ex-wife and her lawyer split all your assets equally between themselves.

- Financial Planner - A guy who actually remembers his wallet when he runs to the 7-11 for toilet paper and cigarettes.

- Market Correction - The day after you buy stocks.

- Cash Flow - The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

- Call Option - Something people used to do with a telephone in ancient times before e-mail.

- Cisco - Side kick of Poncho.

- Yahoo - What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $540 per share.

- Windows 2000 - What you jump out of when you're the sucker that bought Yahoo for $540 per share.

- Institutional Investor - Past year investor who's now locked up in a nut house.

- Profit - Religious guy who talks to God.

- Bill Gates - Where God goes for a loan.

- Alan Greenspan - God.

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