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| Blue chip stocks | Stocks in the biggest, most established, and consistently profitable companies in the United States |
| Bear Market | A market characterized by falling prices of 15 percent or more; characterized by pessimism |
| Bull Market | A rising stock market (in both volume and prices), which is characterized by optimism |
| Mutual fund | A company that pools the money of many investors to buy a large selection of securities that meet the fund's state investment goals |
| Stockbroker | A broker who accepts orders to buy and sell stock and then transfers those orders to other people who complete them |
| Stockholder | An owner of a share of stock |
| Stock Split | The division of a stock into a larger number of lower-priced shares |
| Short-term investing | The continual buying and selling of stock in an effort to have one's money grow faster than the general level of stock prices |
| Securities | A broad range of investment instruments, including stocks, bonds and mutual funds |
| Stock Exchange | One of the organized stock markets with a centralized trading floor. Auction-type trading allows traders to sell stocks to the highest bidder or buy stocks from the lowest supplier |
| Stock Market | A market in which the people trade stocks they already own |
| NASDAQ | part of the over-the-counter market. NASDAQ is an electronic marketplace listing prices of more than 5,000 stocks |
| NYSE | The New York Stock Exchange, which is one of the organized stock markets in the US |
