Glossary
Every term on WOWS, in plain English
20 definitions covering the numbers on a stock page, the lines on a chart and the orders on a trade ticket — each one written out properly rather than in a tooltip, and cross-linked to where it actually appears in the app. No finance degree required.
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Market basics
4The vocabulary every quote and chart assumes you already know.
52-Week High/LowThe highest and lowest prices a stock has traded at over the past year.Bid-Ask SpreadThe gap between the highest price a buyer will pay (bid) and the lowest price a seller will accept (ask).Ask price − Bid priceTicker SymbolThe short letter code — like AAPL or MSFT — used to identify a specific listed stock on an exchange.Trading VolumeThe number of shares (or contracts) that changed hands over a given period.
Valuation & fundamentals
4The numbers that describe what a company is worth and what it earns.
Dividend YieldAnnual dividend payments per share, expressed as a percentage of the current share price.(Annual dividend per share ÷ Share price) × 100EPS (Earnings Per Share)A company's net profit divided by its number of outstanding shares.Net profit ÷ Shares outstandingMarket CapitalisationThe total value of a company's outstanding shares — share price multiplied by shares outstanding.Share price × Shares outstandingP/E RatioPrice-to-earnings ratio: share price divided by earnings per share, a shorthand for how expensive a stock is relative to its profit.Share price ÷ Earnings per share
Charts & indicators
4How price is drawn, and the tools used to read it.
Candlestick ChartA chart style showing a period's open, high, low and close price as a single 'candle' with a body and wicks.Moving AverageThe average price over a rolling recent window, used to smooth out day-to-day noise and show the underlying trend.Sum of the last N closes ÷ NRSI (Relative Strength Index)A momentum indicator, scaled 0-100, that measures how fast and how far a price has moved recently.VolatilityHow much and how fast a price moves — a measure of risk and uncertainty, not of direction.
Orders & execution
3The instructions you give a broker, and what each one guarantees.
Limit OrderAn order to buy or sell only at a specified price or better — trading certainty of execution for certainty of price.Market OrderAn order to buy or sell immediately at the best currently available price.Stop OrderAn order that becomes a market order once a stock trades at a specified trigger price — commonly used to limit a loss.
Strategies & conditions
5Ways of trading, and the market backdrops they run into.
Bear MarketA sustained period of falling prices, generally accompanied by widespread pessimism.Bull MarketA sustained period of rising prices, generally accompanied by broad optimism.Day TradingBuying and selling a position within the same trading day, closing everything before the market closes.Short SellingBorrowing and selling a stock you don't own, betting the price falls so you can buy it back cheaper later.Swing TradingHolding a position for several days to a few weeks, aiming to catch a shorter-term price swing within a larger trend.
Put these to work
Browse the stock directoryEvery metric defined here appears live on a symbol page — 400 companies across 14 exchanges.Practise with the order typesMarket, limit and stop orders on a simulated account, with no real money at risk.See the indicators on a chartCandlesticks, moving averages and RSI on the same charting engine professionals use.