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CAN SLIM

CAN SLIM refers to the seven-pronged mnemonic publicized by the American newspaper Investor's Business Daily, which claims to be a checklist of the characteristics performing stocks tend to share before their biggest gains.

Clustering illusion

Gilovich, an early author on the subject, argues the effect occurs for different types of random dispersions, including 2-dimensional data such as seeing clusters in the locations of impact of V-1 flying bombs on 2 dimensional maps of London during World War II or seeing streaks in stock market price fluctuations over time.

Do As I Say

Michael Moore, staunch anti-capitalist is shown to have significant investments in the stock market, including stock in companies like Halliburton, Pfizer, Merck, and "other companies he vilifies in his films".

John P. Reese

His first book, The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best (Dearborn, 2002. ISBN 978-0976510109), was co-authored with Todd O. Glassman and examined the strategies of eight different stock market investors—Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, William O'Neil, Warren Buffett, David Dreman, Martin Zweig, Kenneth Fisher, and James O'Shaughnessy.

Lex van Dam

In 2009, van Dam featured in a three-part series on BBC2, entitled Million Dollar Traders that aimed to educate eight ordinary people about the stock market, in a re-creation of the famous "turtle trader" experiment of Richard Dennis in the 1980s.

Multifractal system

They include fully developed turbulence, stock market time series, real world scenes, the Sun’s magnetic field time series, heartbeat dynamics, human gait, and natural luminosity time series.

Samuel Untermyer

After admission to the bar, he soon gained fame as a lawyer, focusing on corporate law, and became a staunch advocate of stock market regulations, government ownership of railroads, and various legal reforms.


see also

Active Value Investing

Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets (Wiley, 2007) is a book written by Vitaliy Katsenelson, and describes a strategy for sideways stock market.

AEX

AEX index, Amsterdam Exchange index, a stock market index composed of Dutch companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam

Bill W. and Dr. Bob

"In 1929, the famous New York stockbroker William G. Wilson crashed with the stock market and became a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith was a surgeon from Ohio, who had also been an alcoholic for thirty years. In fact, he often went into the operating room with a hangover. Through an astonishing series of events, Bill W. and Dr. Bob Smith met and formed a relationship, each helping to keep the other sober. The two went on to form AA together."

Chrysler LH platform

The US economy slipped into a recession following the 1987 Black Friday stock market crash and the Savings and Loan Crisis, but the company's main problems were due to a lack of engineering innovation and careless spending during the years of prosperity in the 80s.

CNNfn

CNNfn worked with S&P Comstock and Townsend to convert what was then a special direct connection to the stock market into a real-time data feed that could be used by the CNNfn.com website.

Commodities Corporation

Paul Cootner, professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, noted for his role in the development of the Random walk hypothesis in his 1964 book The Random Character of Stock Market Prices.

Dan Zanger

His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the Business Channel with her.

Della Street

In the very first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, written in the early days of the Great Depression it is revealed that Della Street came from a wealthy, or at least well-to-do, family that was wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929, forcing Della to get a job as a secretary.

Diner Dash

Flo is a hard worker at a big stock market company in Dinertown.

DJT

Dow Jones Transportation Average, a U.S. stock market index of the transportation sector

Early 2000s recession

The actual burst of the stock market bubble occurred in the form of the NASDAQ crash in March 2000.

Elliott wave principle

Finance professor Roy Batchelor and researcher Richard Ramyar, a former Director of the United Kingdom Society of Technical Analysts and formerly Global Head of Research at Lipper and Thomson Reuters Wealth Management, studied whether Fibonacci ratios appear non-randomly in the stock market, as Elliott's model predicts.

Equity-indexed annuity

An indexed annuity (the word equity previously tied to indexed annuities has been removed to help prevent the assumption of stock market vesting being present in these products) in the United States is a type of tax-deferred annuity whose credited interest is linked to an equity index — typically the S&P 500 or international index.

Finnish banking crisis of 1990s

This was often highly profitable during the boom, but also caused increasing losses when interest rates rose (Helibor exceeding 15% at times), the stock market turned down, and debtors started defaulting on their loans.

Google Trends

In April 2013, Tobias Preis and his colleagues Helen Susannah Moat and H. Eugene Stanley introduced a method to identify online precursors for stock market moves, using trading strategies based on search volume data provided by Google Trends.

Harry Dent

Robert Prechter, an American stock market analyst and writer who bases his theories on the Elliott wave and Elliott wave Grand supercycle.

Info-gap decision theory

For instance, a simple model of daily stock market returns – which by definition fall in the range -100\%,+\infty\%) – may include extreme moves such as Black Monday (1987) but might not model the market breakdowns following the September 11 attacks: it considers the "known unknowns", not the "unknown unknowns".

Interbank foreign exchange market

Unlike the Stock Market, the Foreign Currency Exchange Market (Forex) does not have a physical central exchange like the NYSE does at 11 Wall Street.

Invesco

In May 2007 the company changed their name to Invesco (initial cap only) PLC, moved its primary stock market listing from the London Stock Exchange to the NYSE and became domiciled in Bermuda, adopting the name Invesco Ltd.

ITV Westcountry

During the summer of 1996, Westcountry prepared to float the company on the stock market, which resulted in HTV, United News & Media, Carlton Communications and Canwest bidding to buyout Westcountry.

Johan Bollen

As a result on his work on predicting the stock market based on twitter mood, Derwent Capital Markets started the Absolute Return fund, the worlds's first Twitter hedge fund.

John J. Phelan, Jr.

Phelan's leadership tenure at the NYSE included the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash, during which he declined to halt trading.

Joseph Grundfest

Professor Grundfest is also a co-founder and director of Financial Engines, Inc., chairman of the board nominating committee of the NASDAQ Stock Market, and was formerly a director of Oracle Corporation

Kennedy Slide of 1962

During this period, the S&P 500 declined 22.5%, and the stock market did not experience a stable recovery until after the end of the Cuban missile crisis.

KFX

The Danish OMX Copenhagen 20 stock market index, known as the KFX until October 2005

KTM 950 Adventure

Another alternative for KTM was the Swedish Folan 60-degree V-twin motor which already existed, however it was also aborted once KTM had been successfully floated on the stock market.

Late trading

In the mutual fund context, late trading involves placing orders for mutual fund shares after the close of the stock market, 4:00 p.m for the New York Stock Exchange, but still getting that day's closing price, rather than the next day's opening price.

Libby Potter

Subsequently, in a move away from reporting, she presented the celebrity stock market show Celebdaq and hosted a behind the scenes show about BBC spy series, Spooks.

Lilly Téllez

Téllez "proof" was too weak, and the timing suspicious – just before Francisco Gil announced, as part of his work in Fox's government, sanctions to TV Azteca's owner Ricardo Salinas Pliego for illegal profit from privileged information both in the United States stock market (where he is prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and in the Mexican one in operations related to his cell-phone company Unefon.

Little Book of Common Sense Investing

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns is a 2007 book on index investing, by John C. Bogle, the founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group.

Midcap

CBV MidCap, stock market index indicating 30 out of 60 stock prices of medium-size companies in Vietnam

Momentum investing

This Chicago money manager takes exception with the old stock market adage of buying low and selling high.

NASDAQ OMX Group

is an American multinational financial services corporation that owns and operates the NASDAQ stock market and eight European stock exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic regions and Armenia under the NASDAQ OMX banner.

National Student Marketing Corporation

National Student Marketing Corporation (N.S.M.C., NSMC) was the name of a high-flying company started by Cortes Wesley Randell, a young Washington, D.C. business consultant, in 1966 during the height of the 'Go-Go' 60s stock market.

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

The New York stock market had reached an all-time high less than two weeks earlier, only to go into its biggest decline two weeks later in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which signaled the beginning of the ten-year Great Depression.

Nordstjernan

No fewer than five companies were listed on the stock market in the process, including Avesta Jernverk (1987), Databolin (1987), Silja Line (1990), NK (1987 and 1997) and Linjebuss (1992).

Pump and dump

During the dot-com era, when stock-market fever was at its height and many people spent significant amounts of time on stock Internet message boards, a 15-year-old named Jonathan Lebed showed how easy it was to use the Internet to run a successful pump and dump.

Radeberger Brewery

In 2004 Oetker Gruppe, purchased the company and removed them from the stock market, thus making Radeberger a private company.

Ralph Hitz

When the 2,500 room New Yorker Hotel prepared to open, Hitz was hired to manage the new venture, which opened on January 2, 1930, weeks after the stock market crash.

Ralph Nelson Elliott

In August 1938, he detailed the results of his studies by publishing his third book (written in collaboration with Charles J. Collins), entitled The Wave Principle. Elliott stated that, while stock market prices may appear random and unpredictable, they actually follow predictable, natural laws and can be measured and forecast using Fibonacci numbers.

Richard Quest

He was their business correspondent reporting on, and discussing the world stock market in a regular segment entitled World Business Report usually aired between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. (GMT), a programme that he presented alongside Paddy O'Connell.

Rico Hizon

He anchored the daily business program, Business Today, GMA News Live and Stock Market Live from the trading floor of the Philippine Stock Exchange.

Stock correlation network

Their work focused on stock market (1985–1990) that included the stock market crash of 1987 (Black Monday).

Television news screen layout

The CCTV international (CCTV-4) and finance (CCTV-2) channels adapted relatively different news screen interfaces, with CCTV-2 having a much more complex layout containing a double news ticker similar to that of CNBC for news and stock market information.

Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano

From 1999 to 2002 he held the post of Managing Director of the multiutility ACEGAS SpA in Trieste, and managed the process of privatization of that company, up through its placement on the stock market.

William John Howey

However, the stock market collapse in 1929, the discovery of the Mediterranean fruit fly and hurricanes in the later 1920s heralded the decline of his businesses.

Zanger

Dan Zanger - a technical stock analyst and equities trader who is the world record holder for the largest percent change for a personal portfolio for a 12-month period of time and an 18-month period of time in the history of the stock market