Bank interest Rate
The interest rate at which a nation's central bank lends money to domestic banks, often in the form of very short-term loans. Managing the bank rate is method by which central banks affect economic activity.
Base Currency
A bear market is characterized by pessimism, falling prices, and wide-spread selling of underlying assets. The situation is often self-perpetuating because falling prices cause investors to want to cut their losses and also sell, which cause a downward trend.
Bearish Sentiment
Bearish sentiment is the negative feeling surrounding the value and future prospects of underlying assets. Bearish sentiment precedes bear market entry and encourages investors to start selling.
Bid Ask Spread
Bid and ask prices are determined by the most a buyer is willing to pay for a unit of a given asset, and the least that a seller is willing to accept in order to sell it. The spread is the difference between these two figures.
Bid Price
Market prices are quoted in pairs known as bid/ask. The bid is the price at which an underlying instrument can be sold at. So when trading on a currency pair, for instance EUR/USD, the bid price represents how much of the quote currency (in this case USD) a trader is able to get when selling a unit of the base currency (in this case the Euro).
Blue Chip Stock
A blue-chip stock is the stock of a large, well-established and financially sound company that has operated for many years. A blue-chip stock typically has a market capitalization in the billions, is generally the market leader or among the top three companies in its sector. E.g. Dow Jones, S&P and NASDAQ in United States, Canada 60 in Canada or the FTSE index in the United Kingdom.
Bollinger Bands
Volatility indicator used to measure volatility. Volatility is based on the standard deviation using a moving average within two outer bands (standard-deviation based) which adjust to the volatility.
Breakout
Breakouts are more commonly used to refer to the occasion of an asset's price pushing through a confirmed level of resistance, though it can sometimes also be used to refer to a downward move through a known support level. When an asset breaks through a resistance level this mark then becomes the asset's new support. When it pushes through a support level this becomes its new resistance.
Bull Market
A bull market is characterized by optimism, rising prices, and wide-spread buying of underlying assets. The situation is often self-perpetuating because rising prices cause investors hoping to profit to also buy, which further reinforces the upward trend.
Bullish Market
Bullish sentiment is the positive feeling and growing investor confidence surrounding the value and future performance of an underlying asset or market. This positive feeling often precedes a bull market and encourages other investors to buy.
Buy Order
A pending order is an instruction to buy an instrument when certain preconditions specified by the trader are met.
Buy and Hold
Buy and hold is a passive investment strategy in which an investor buys stocks and holds them for a long period of time, regardless of fluctuations in the market. An investor who employs a buy-and-hold strategy actively selects stocks, but once in a position, is not concerned with short-term price movements and technical indicators.