Finance terms and definitions
- Bull Market - A random market movement causing an investor to mistake
himself for a financial genius.
- Bear Market - A 6 to 18-month period when the kids get no allowance, the
wife gets no jewelry and the husband gets no sex.
- Momentum Investing - The fine art of buying high and selling low.
- Value Investing - The art of buying low and selling lower.
- P/E Ratio -The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the Market
keeps crashing.
- Broker - Poorer than we were in 1999.
- "Buy, Buy" - A flight attendant making market recommendations as you
step off the plane.
- Standard & Poor - Our life in a nutshell.
- Stock Analyst - Idiot who just downgraded our stock.
- Stock split - When your ex-wife and her lawyer split all your assets
equally between themselves.
- Market Correction - The day after you buy stocks.
- Cash Flow - The movement our money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
- Call Option - Something people used to do with a telephone in ancient
times before e-mail.
- Day Trader - Someone who is disloyal from 9-5.
- Cisco - Sidekick of Pancho.
- Yahoo - What we yell after selling it to some poor sucker for US$240 per
share.
- Windows XP - What we jump out of when we're the sucker that bought
Yahoo for $240 per share.
- Institutional Investor - Past year investor who's now locked up in a nut
house.
- Profit - Religious guy who talks to God.
- Bill Gates - Where God goes for a loan.
- Alan Greenspan - God