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• MEAN OF THE SAMPLE - The arithmetic average; that is, the sum of the observations divided by the number...
  
  
• MEAN P/L - The average profitability of a trader's account, as measured over a given period.
  
  
• MEAN RETURN - The average monthly total return of a stock. The total return is price change added to di...
  
  
• MEAN REVERSION - The idea that stock prices revert to a long term level. Hence, if there is a shock in ...
  
  
• MEAN REVERTING - The term adopted in academic literature for one possible state of a price series: that...
  
  
• MEAN-VARIANCE ANALYSIS - Evaluation of risky prospects based on the expected value and variance of poss...
  
  
• MEAN-VARIANCE CRITERION - The selection of portfolios based on the means and variances of their returns...
  
  
• MEAN-VARIANCE EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO - Related: Markowitz efficient portfolio
  
  
• MEANDER LINES - A vivid description of the measurement used in surveying to set out the boundary of a w...
  
  
• MEASURE - A function that maps a set into the positive portion of the real line. Examples: 1. Length ...