Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• TRADING UP - Selling a house to buy a more-expensive house.
  
  
• TRADING VARIATION - The increments to which securities prices are rounded up or rounded down.
  
  
• TRADING VOLUME - Trading volume is a measure of the number of stocks, bonds, futures contracts, options...
  
  
• TRADITIONAL APPROACH (TO CAPITAL STRUCTURE) - A theory of capital structure in which there exists an op...
  
  
• TRADITIONAL IRA - The original self-directed retirement plan, a traditional IRA allows you to contribut...
  
  
• TRADITIONAL VIEW (OF DIVIDEND POLICY) - An argument that, "within reason," investors prefer higher divi...
  
  
• TRAILING - in time periods, is the most recently completed time period. For example, trailing twelve mo...
  
  
• TRAILING EARNINGS - Past earnings. Often used in the context of the price earnings ratio. This ratio is...
  
  
• TRAILING SALES - Past sales. Often used in the valuation of companies that have negative cash flows or ...
  
  
• TRAILING STOP - A stop-loss order that follows the prevailing price trend.