Terms beginning with D

• Daily Change
  The daily change in the price of a share or other security, i.e. the difference between the most recent price of a security and the previous...(Read more)
• Daily Close
  The settled price at which a traded instrument is last traded at on a particular trading day. Also known as closing price....(Read more)
• Daily High
  The highest price traded by a security or currency during a given day. It can also refer to the highest point reached by an index....(Read more)
• Daily Low
  The lowest price traded by a security or currency during a given day. It can also refer to the lowest point reached by an index....(Read more)
• Daily Official List
  The daily record setting out the prices of all trades in shares and other securities conducted on the London Stock Exchange....(Read more)
• Date Of Record
  The date by which a shareholder must own shares in order to qualify for a dividend....(Read more)
• Dated Security
  A fixed interest security that has a specified date for repayment (redemption date)....(Read more)
• Dawn Raid
  The practice of buying shares in a potential target at the beginning of a trading day in the hope that the rest of the market will be slow t...(Read more)
• DAX 30
  The most widely quoted German stock index, containing 30 blue chip stocks. Abbreviation for Deutscher Aktienindex. An MDAX index covers mid ...(Read more)
• Day Order
  An order placed with a broker to purchase or sell stock, a commodity or financial instrument at specified price limits. If not executed tha...(Read more)
• Day Trader
  See 'day trading'....(Read more)
• Day Trading
  In the simplest terms, the purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, of a security on the same day. Day traders aim to make (often small) pro...(Read more)
• Days Of Grace
  Additional days which may be allowed by a company to a debtor over and above the due date for payment. For example, a life insurance compan...(Read more)
• De Minimis Limit
  In general, meaning lacking significance or importance, in other words the amount is so small that it does not matter and is not taken into ...(Read more)
• Dead Cat Bounce
  A phrase used by traders to describe the phenomenon whereby a stock rallies modestly after a large fall, and often before dropping to new lo...(Read more)