Investing Terms "M"

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Margin Account - allows investors to buy securities by borrowing money from a broker.

Margin Call - demand from a broker for additional funds because of adverse price movement.

Market Order - an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.

Market Share - the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.

Midcap - a company or a mutual fund that invests in companies with a market capitalization of between $1 billion and $5 billion.

Money Market Fund - trade in short-term, low-risk securities, such as certificates of deposit and U.S. Treasury notes.

Moody's Investors Service - a leading firm engaged in credit rating, risk analysis, and research of fixed-income securities and their issuers.

Morningstar Rating System - ranking of mutual funds by Morningstar Inc.

Most Active List - stocks with the highest volume of trading during a particular day.

Moving Average - one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.

Municipal Bond - a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.

Mutual Fund - a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares.