Financial Glossary

An investor stuck holding a declining stock or asset after missing the opportunity to sell at higher prices.

Investment sector focused on energy storage companies developing batteries for EVs, grid storage, and consumer electronics.

A prolonged decline of 20% or more in stock prices from recent highs, typically lasting months to years and signaling investor pessimism.

Beta measures a stock's volatility relative to the overall market, with 1.0 meaning it moves in sync with the market.

The bid-ask spread is the difference between the highest price buyers will pay for a security and the lowest price sellers will accept.

A nearly identical copy of an FDA-approved biologic drug that's lost patent protection, offering similar efficacy at lower costs.

Companies using biological processes and living organisms to develop drugs, treatments, and medical technologies for healthcare applications.

A pre-programmed event that cuts Bitcoin mining rewards in half every four years, reducing new supply and historically driving price rallies.

An unpredictable, rare event with extreme consequences that fundamentally disrupts markets and seems obvious only after it happens.

A distributed digital ledger that records transactions across multiple computers in a way that makes them nearly impossible to alter.

Technical analysis tool using moving averages and standard deviation to identify overbought/oversold conditions and volatility.

Book value represents the accounting worth of a company if it were liquidated today, calculated as total assets minus total liabilities.

A bull market is a sustained period of rising stock prices, typically defined as a 20% gain from recent lows across major market indices.