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Investment Banker – Someone who works with a business to determine how much money should be raised to accomplish the…

Investment Grade Bonds – Bonds that are sold by a very reliable issuer, the government, a large corporation, or a…

Investment Strategy – A plan designed to help you achieve your investment goals and depends on factors including risk tolerance…

Investor – Someone who purchases stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other financial instruments in hopes the investments will increase in…

IOU – Means exactly as it sounds, “I Owe You.” It is an acknowledgment of a debt.

Leverage (Speculation) – Investing with money borrowed at a fixed rate of interest in the hopes of earning a greater…

Liability – A debt that a company owes and must repay in the future.

Limit Order – An order to buy or sell stock at a given (or better) price.

Liquidate – Liquidate means converting property or assets into cash or cash equivalents by selling them on the open market…

Liquidity – The ease of converting an asset-in this case, stock-into money in a timely fashion with little or no…

Listing Requirement – Listing requirements are the standards a corporation must meet to have its stock or bonds traded on…

Loan – A sum of money lent at interest.

Long Position – The condition of owning stock. The value of a long position is a stock’s current share price…

Long-Term Goals – Something you want to do in the future, usually several years away (e.g. saving for college, buying…

Loss – The amount by which a company’s costs exceed its sales.

Management Buyout – When the management of a corporation buys the controlling shares in the company.

Margin – Margin is the money borrowed from a broker to purchase an investment and is the difference between the…

Margin Account – A brokerage account that allows an investor to borrow money or stocks from a broker.

Margin Agreement – A legal agreement between a customer and a broker to open a margin account.

Margin Buying – Using money borrowed from a broker to buy stocks.