The motley fool uses such slang in their columns as bull, bears and pitches. What exactly is a market cap?
2007-11-20 15:21:51 · 4 answers · asked by matt h 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
it is the stock market. but what do these slang words mean.
2007-11-20 15:34:05 · update #1
The shadow gave you most of the terms.
I assume that "pitches" means "sale pitches" in which someone is trying to get another to buy into an investment or an idea.
I also will recommend
http://investopedia.com/Default.aspx?viewed=1
as a place you can look up many terms yourself, including short phrases such as "dead cat bounce" or "triple witching".
2007-11-21 01:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by zman492 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bull market is a market which is regularly going up. A bull is someone who is positive about the market and believes that the market will continue to go up.
There is no "official" definition of a bear market, but it is commonly accepted as a market that has declined by 20% from its peak. A bear is someone who is negative on the market and believes that it will go down.
Market cap is short for market capitalization. It is a measure of a company's size and is calculated as price per share multiplied by the total number of outstanding shares.
I've been investing for years, but I've never heard of a "pitch".
2007-11-20 15:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by The Shadow 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bear market.
2007-11-20 20:20:58 · answer #3 · answered by Green Beret 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like the stock market, u trade stocks on it
2007-11-20 15:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋