Coming to Terms with Wall Street: An Insider's Guide to Investment Terminology
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Like any good reference work, the dictionary is intended to encourage browsing. There is something for every taste, and something to offend (mildly) almost everyone. Most importantly, it is almost impossible for either the lay reader or the professional not to learn from the dictionary. Beneath the humor and irreverent attitude is the oft-repeated message that the buyer should beware, and that the all-knowing advisor may not know very much at all.
Gary B. Helms
Gary Helms managed a major mutual fund in the 1970’s, ran Research for the legendary Loeb, Rhoades in the 80’s, and managed the University of Chicago’s endowment in the 90’s. A widowed father of three adults, he lives if Vero Beach and the Utah mountains.
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Coming to Terms with Wall Street - Gary B. Helms
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A. SULKA
Where Wall Streeters buy their shirts in up years.
ABSOLUTE RETURN STRATEGIES
Investment schemes to which the unwary are certain to return at absolutely the wrong time.
ACCOUNTANT
One who describes the horse, in excruciating detail, once it is out of the barn.
ACCRETIVE
What most mergers are alleged to be to earnings, in the first year, but rarely are.
ACTUARY
Someone lacking the personality to become an accountant.
AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
What all of American industry would be like if government and business cooperated better. (See Screwdriver, Ninety Dollars.)
AFTERGLOW
Watching the runoff after a particularly good day.
AGRICULTURE
A typically non-profit activity engaged in by farmers to produce food and fiber. Agriculture is to bullfighting, some say, as education is to football.
AIRLINE FOOD
: Cuisine typically one notch above that available at Financial Analysts Federation lunches.
: Some say, an oxymoron.
AIRLINES
A group of stocks greatly favored by Wall Street analysts, financial journalists, college professors, and others who have no intention of actually buying them. The investment thesis is that, although the industry’s cumulative profit since Kitty Hawk is negative, it may turn neutral someday.
ALL AMERICAN
A securities analyst skilled in the finer points of his profession, such as convincing brokers to actually call clients with his latest insight, and keeping a straight face when explaining that management bagged him when his most recent independently derived earnings estimate proved to be too high.
ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE
Term of derogation for the guy in the pink Cadillac on a particularly busy night at the Dallas convention.
ALL OR NONE
Amount of credit that will be taken by one’s broker depending on whether an investment works out (all) or it doesn’t (none).
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT
Corporate (or matrimonial) proceeding which is concluded without shots being fired.
AMICUS CURAIE BRIEFS
Calvins worn by attorneys who disdain boxer shorts.
ANALYST
One particularly anal in attitude or approach.
ANNUAL MEETING
An event typically attended by retirees, Wall Street analysts, and short sellers.
ANNUAL REPORT
The analyst’s major source of information about a company, such as who to contact regarding investment banking business, how big is the pension fund and who runs it, and who might be potential clients in the sale of 144 stock. The professional always reads the annual report from back to front, ignores the chairman’s letter and the pictures (except in the case of lingerie manufacturing).
ANOMALY INVESTING
: The process of strip-mining the data, via computer, for tiny market inefficiencies which might provide a scant profit after costs and commissions if some other anomalist doesn’t get there first
: An investment approach based on ignoring the haystacks and seeking needles.
ANTICIPATION
The act of buying on the rumor and selling on the news.
APPAREL
An industry which attempts to earn a profit buying from the Scots and selling to the Jews.
ARBITRAGE
Investment technique that makes it possible to lose money on both sides of a trade.
ARMANI, GEORGIO
Noted Italian designer and camouflage specialist, adept at making flab look like muscle.
ARM’S LENGTH
Politically correct distance at which to keep one’s date until she explicitly suggests closer contact.
AS IS
Exculpatory clause often affixed to used cars.
ASPEN
Quaint little ski village populated by downhill enthusiasts, nature lovers, and people who can afford $800 sweat suits.
ASSET PLAY
A company which may have sufficient sleepy assets to support heavy debt service, investment banking fees, and a profit for the LBO firm until resold to the public as a niche market opportunity.
AUDITOR
An accountant with an attitude; what John Wayne would have been had he been an accountant.
AVERAGING DOWN
Buying more of a stock when it declines below your cost in order to reduce your average cost. Presumably the ultimate success of this strategy would be to achieve an average cost approaching zero.
AVIATION AND DAY TRADING
Two professions where one rarely encounters a practitioner who is both old and bold.
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BABE MAGNET
Solvent Miami Beach widower who can see to drive after dark.
BACKLOG
Unfilled orders, which