Monthly Archives: March 2018

Capitulation occur when investors rapidly sell equities, getting out of the market as quickly as possible and giving up any previous gains in stock prices. The term comes from the military word for surrender, and is closely associated with panic selling. Capitulation is characterized by high trading volume and sharp declines in price, usually a […]

Buying the dips is investor slang for buying a stock that has dipped in price, in hopes that the decline will soon reverse. An investor that buys dips believes that the stock is temporarily undervalued and that they are getting valuable shares for s discounted price. For instance, after the announcement of Brexit in June […]

Circuit breakers, also known as collars, are measures approved by the SEC designed to temporarily halt trading during a massive sell-off period in order to discourage investor panic. the halt gives investors time to cool off and evaluate their options On the NYSE, circuit breakers were first put into place after the Black Monday crash […]

Amortization has two primary meanings. In personal finance, amortization refers to a repayment arrangement in which regular payments are made over an extended period of time, such as in a car or home loan . Often in a fixed repayment schedule, earlier payments consist primarily of interest, and the proportion of the payment dedicated to […]