Bearish, A bear - A seller of stock in the expectation that the price will go down. A negative view. Stocks described as “losers”

Bid only - Lots of buyers no sellers

Blue chip - A high quality, low risk stock

Bubble - A price which cannot justified by fundamentals such as press coverage

Bullish, A bull - A buyer of stock in the expectation that the price will go up. A positive view. Stocks described as “gainers”

Cum dividend - A stock that can be bought with the rights to the dividend

Current Index - The value of the market based on the sum of one share in each listed celebrity

Day trading - The practice of trading shares on a daily basis for profit, rather than holding them for dividends

Dividend - That part of a company's profits after tax distributed to shareholders, usually expressed in pence per share. Celebrity shares pay out a dividend (divi) based on how much press coverage the celeb gets that week, in a number of daily papers and weekly entertainment mags.
To earn the full dividend per share, you have to have held the shares from Monday to Friday.

Dividend Yield - Formula: divi ÷ share price x 100 = % yield. The key to the game is increasing your percentage yield. One of the ways to do this is with dividends. The yield a dividend gives you is called a dividend yield. It is the dividend divided by the price. It's often expressed as a percentage (so you times it by 100). For example if your dividend is 0.88 per share and each share cost you £36, you would divide 0.88 by 36 x 100 = a dividend yield of 2.44%.

Downtrading - Buying shares to sell at a loss in order to reduce the value of your portfolio. Often used to avoid being millionaired on a Monday

Ex dividend - A stock which has paid its dividend

Herd instinct - Investors just follow each other regardless of the logic

Hitting bids - Aggressive selling

IPO - Stands for Initial Public Offering, refers to a newly listed stock (company, or in Celebdaq's case celebrity) . The IPO price would be the price the stock was initally floated at.

Insider trading - Trading stock despite having a vested interest in the stock

In the price - When the share price does not have the expected reaction to news i.e. does not go up despite all the press coverage "the news was in the price". See also "it is better to travel than to arrive"

Kneecapping - trader slang for being millionaired on a Monday. Read the FAQ for an explanation of why this happens and what it means (Celebdaq term only)

Newbie - an inexperienced trader (Celebdaq term only)

Offered only - Lots of sellers no buyers

Penny stock - A low quality, high risk stock

Portfolio - A group of investments held by an investor, investment company, or financial institution.

Potential dividend - The predicted amount that a share should pay in dividends on a Friday

Pump and dump - When traders invest all their money in one stock, falsely hiking the share price then, once it has risen, pull out causing the price to fall sharply

Punters - Buyers or sellers of dubious quality

Rally - A movement up, "the stock rallied from its low"

Share - Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided. A sole trader may own all the shares and therefore the whole business, and all the profits. In a partnership, shares may be divided among several people all of whom own part of the business and part of the profits. Or a Limited company may be divided into millions of shares which are sold to many investors. The investors may be banks who own a huge number of shares or individuals who own only a few shares. The money from the sale of the shares is used to fund growth. If the company is successful the investors get a share of the profits (a dividend) and their shares will go up in value.

Short squeeze - A price goes up even though there is bad news out (in the price)

Speculative buying/selling - Activity in a stock for no obvious reason

Taking offers - Aggressive buying

Technical analysis - The analysis of charts to predict future share-price movements

Tulip mania - A period in the 17th century when you could buy several houses for a tulip bulb. The biggest bubble ever

Volatility, Vol - The amount and frequency with which a share will move up and down

Yield - The yield is the difference between the amount invested in shares and the amount earned in either price rises or dividends. Share with a low share price and a high dividend payment produce a good yield.

e.g. if you buy 1 share for 50p which then pays a dividend of £1, the yield would be 200%. However, a share bought for £1 paying a dividend of 50p would only produce a 50% yield.

You can work out your yield using the following calculation:

Dividend / share price paid x 100 = yield