A Stock Market activity intended to take over control of a company buying up shares on the market or launching an OPA (see OPA ), which can be friendly or hostile

A study of the behavior of financial markets, mostly through charts, in order to foresee possible future trends. Professionals specialising in technical analysis are known as "chartists"

This term refers to securities with low amounts of floating shares

The operation of buying and selling securities on the market. On-line trading denotes buying and selling on the Internet through sites provided by financial brokers like SIMs and banks

It indicates the cash equivalent of transactions involving a given security in a given period, while traded quantities refer to the number of shares, bonds and other securities traded. Both the quantity and the cash equivalent can refer to a single security or to all transactions made on the market

A group of financial institutions (banks, SIMs etc.) responsible for investing a block of newly issued securities and/or of a newly listed company amongst institutional investors. The consortium usually has a lead institution, called the global coordinator or lead manager, depending on the role it plays

The measure of price or performance variability compared to the average, within a given period of time. The higher the volatility index is, the more the price of securities will rise and fall from one Stock Exchange session to the next or even during a given Stock Exchange session

It is a right associated with a security (stock or bond), negotiable also in and of itself, giving the owner the ability to buy other securities at a pre-established price. Usually, the warrants, which have a specific expiration date, are issued after capital increases or convertible bond issues

Performance, or economic return of an investment in securities