The full dictionary.
IPO terms, chart patterns, market mechanics — everything beyond the scoring model. None of these affect your conviction score, but all of them help you understand the full picture.
← Back to Scoring FactorsChart patterns and technical indicators explained — what they are, how to read them, and where they fall short.
Support and resistance levels derived from Fibonacci ratios applied to a significant price move.
The number of shares traded in a given period — confirming whether a price move has real conviction behind it.
A momentum oscillator measuring the speed and change of price movements on a 0–100 scale.
The core financial metrics every investor should understand — defined in plain English and institutional terms.
The total market value of a company's outstanding shares — what the market thinks the whole company is worth right now.
How much profit a company generated for each individual share of stock — the single number Wall Street obsesses over every earnings season.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation — a proxy for raw operating cash generation before financial engineering gets involved.
The actual cash left over after running the business and maintaining its assets — the number that determines whether a company can self-fund growth, pay dividends, or buy back stock.
The annual dividend payment as a percentage of the share price — how much income you earn just for holding the stock.
The multiples and ratios used to decide whether a stock is cheap, fair, or dangerously overpriced.
Price-to-Earnings — how much investors are paying for every $1 of profit the company generates. The most widely used valuation metric on earth.
P/E divided by earnings growth rate — a smarter valuation check that asks whether the price you're paying is actually justified by how fast the company is growing.
Enterprise value divided by EBITDA — the valuation multiple private equity and M&A professionals use to price entire businesses, capital structure and all.
How much the market is charging you relative to the company's net asset value on paper. Essential for banks, largely irrelevant for software.
How markets actually move — squeezes, options, and the mechanics behind the chaos.
When a heavily shorted stock surges in price, forcing short sellers to buy shares to cover their losses — which pushes the price even higher.
A contract that gives you the right — but not the obligation — to buy 100 shares at a fixed price before a set expiry date.
A contract that gives you the right to sell 100 shares at a fixed price before expiry — the standard way to profit from, or hedge against, a stock falling.
The sudden collapse in implied volatility after a major event like earnings — destroying the value of options even when the underlying stock moves in the right direction.
The return a stock or portfolio generates above and beyond what the overall market delivered — the measure of whether you actually outperformed.
A measure of how violently a stock moves relative to the overall market. Beta of 1 = moves with the market. Beta of 2 = twice as unhinged.
A stock that looks cheap on paper but keeps getting cheaper — because the business is structurally broken, not misunderstood.
Options expiring the same day they're traded. Maximum leverage, maximum theta decay, maximum chaos — the purest form of speculative options trading.
When heavy call option buying forces market makers to buy the underlying stock to hedge, which pushes the price up, which forces more hedging — a mechanical feedback loop that can send a stock vertical.
When the founders or insiders of a crypto project or stock suddenly sell all their holdings, collapsing the price and leaving retail investors with worthless assets.
Trump Always Chickens Out — a 2025 trading strategy built on the observation that Trump's tariff threats tend to get walked back, making every tariff-driven selloff a buying opportunity.
Everything that happens between a company deciding to go public and retail investors buying the dip six months later.
IPO Lock-up Expiry
The date insiders can finally dump — and often do.
Quiet Period
The window where everyone who knows anything has to shut up.
IPO Pop / Fade
First-day fireworks — then usually a reality check.
S-1 Filing
The company's full confession before it asks for your money.
Greenshoe Option
The underwriter's secret stabilisation lever.
SPAC
Taking a company public without doing the hard part.
Direct Listing vs IPO
Skipping the middleman — and what you gain and lose.
The Roadshow
Two weeks of speed-dating between a company and the people with the biggest cheque books.
Leaving Money on the Table
When the IPO pops so hard, everyone realises the company charged too little.
Broken IPO
When a stock falls below its IPO price — and everyone pretends they didn't see it coming.
Allocation
Who actually gets shares at the IPO price — spoiler: probably not you.
Secondary Markets
Where all the stock trading you actually do happens — the IPO already closed.
Underwriting
The bank's job: take your company public, take their cut, and manage the risk in between.