Financial lexicon

The financial world has it own vocabulary.
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Majority shareholder
Natural or legal person holding a majority of the shares or voting rights.

Manager
Physical person managing the portfolio of a unit trust or an investment trust.

Market capitalisation
Assessment of the market value of a company listed on the stock exchange, at a given time. This is calculated by multiplying the share price by the number of securities in circulation.
Market Maker
Financial institution acting as the other party on certain markets (easdaq, OTC,) and for certain securities. The aim of the market maker is to ensure minimum liquidity for a security. Towards this end, the market maker is required to propose purchasing and selling prices.
Market sheet
Quotation sheet featuring all orders (quantity + price) for a security.
Minority shareholder
Individual or group of individuals holding only a small proportion (this has to be less than half) of shares or voting rights in a company.
Momentum
Mathematical tool indicating the speed at which prices are moving. When it is positive (negative) it indicates an upward (downward) acceleration in prices. The changeover from zero may be interpreted as a changing trend and provides a signal to buy (in the event of an upward transition or to sell (for a downward transition).
Moving average
The moving average is a technical assessment instrument. It takes the form of a curve where each point represents the average for prices over a period defined as a number of days. It is used to dscover trends and provide signals to buy and sell.
MT
Medium term. Less than six months.