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Fancy Way to Say: Dow Jones Industrial Average Tracking Stock If an investor wants to participate in the performance of the Dow she could buy shares in all 30 of the stocks held in it. Besides a large capital investment this strategy would also incur high commissions. There is however a security which tracks the performance of the Dow. It's nickname is Diamonds based on its ticker symbol, DIA.

Fancy Way to Say: Pump and Dump stock This is a stock whose chart resembles that of the fictitious Graftware Tech. from the E*Trade commercial. If you're not familiar, in the commercial a low level employee logs onto E*Trade to check his stock. He pulls up a chart and sees from about 12-1PM or so it has gone from about 10 to 70. Happy as a clam, he goes up to his boss, Mr. Dinky, and quits. On the way back to his desk he grabs a passerby and kisses her. Upon returning to his desk and refreshing his chart he sees his nestegg has gone back to 10. He runs upstairs to tell Mr. Dinky he was just kidding. Anyhow, that's a Dinky Stock: one that shoots to the moon and returns just as quickly.

Fancy Way to Say: Normal Options Expiration If the third Friday of the month isn't a triple witch then it's a double witch. Since there are four triple witchings a year it leaves the other eight as double witchings. That just means it's a normal options expiration where the following expire: stock options,options on stock index future

Fancy Way to Say: Price Decrease The term downtick is used to explain the change in price in a security when the last trade occurred at a lower price than the previous trade. In others words, the security ticked down.

Fancy Way to Say: Not over or under valued The 'true' difference between the S&P cash index and the futures. While the S&P futures represent the stocks in the S&P500, the price also represents an interest premium as a futures is a contract for delivery at some date in the future. Thus, there is an opportunity cost to holding all the stocks in the S&P500 now versus just holding a contract to own them. Since a futures contract wouldn't tie up nearly as much cash as holding the stocks, this 'interest' would could be earned on the funds is represented in the premium at which the futures trade above the cash index. Fair Value is often expressed as a number, or premium, over cash. For example, if the cash index stands at 1200.00 and fair value is 13, this states the futures should be at 1213.00. If the futures are higher, meaning the premium is above fair value, stocks are undervalued. Conversely, if the futures are lower, it means the premium is less than fair value and stocks are overvalued.

Fancy Way to Say: Execution Fill is shorthand for a trade execution. If you enter an order to buy and you order gets executed, it is said to be filled. Or, you received a fill.

Fancy Way to Say: Analysis of the facts Any fact you can uncover regarding a security is considered part of the fundamentals regarding the security. Example of fundamentals: Sales P/E ratio News release CEO

Fancy Way to Say: Corning Nicknames for Corning based on its ticker, GLW. Glass comes from it being in the business of fiber and the first two letters of the ticker, GL, hence GLass. Glue comes from the pronunciation of the ticker if you were to spell it out: G - L - W (double U), hence GLUU, or GLUE.

Fancy Way to Say: Goldman Sachs Shorthand for this major market maker always present on the Level II.

Fancy Way to Say: Fake Move Similar to a dead cat bounce, except that is performed by a specialist or a market maker. The specialist or MM will make a stock 'look' strong in an effort to bring out buyers when her real intention is to sell. But, instead of advertising those true intentions, she does the opposite in order to sell. This temporary buying usually ends quickly and is followed by a reversal. The same can happen in the opposite direction, with apparent weakness being used as a buying opportunity by the knowing party.