Your Investing Vocabulary

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If the following are any part of your investing vocabulary the terms will probably, though you are not looking for it, lead you into investing trouble:

Option & Futures Funds
Non-Rated Derivatives
Naked Options
Margin/Short/Leverage
Covered-Call Writing
Straddles
25%, 50%, 100% annual gains
Bond Funds
Speculative
Modern Portfolio Theory
Beta/Alpha
Penny Stocks
Yesterday/In The Past
Ginnie Mae
The Moment
Performance Fees
Efficient Frontier
Leverage
Commodities (speculative)
Standard Deviation
Derivatives
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
Short-Term
Annuities
Transactions
Foreign
Tax-Efficient
Proprietary Products
Optimizers
Private Placement
Monte Carlo Analysis
Hedge Funds
Fund of Funds
Commissions
Past Performance
Illiquid
Open End Bond Funds
Junk Bonds
Preferred Stock
Unit Investment Trusts
Unsecured
Uninsured
Limited Partnerships
IPO
Secondary
Exchange-Traded Funds

Pie Chart/Graph

Currency Risk
Standard Deviation/Backtesting
Bear/Bull Spreads
Straddles
Index Funds
Butterfly
Non-Rated
I'm a long-term investor.
The analyst said.
I'll come back.
It's not a loss until it is sold.
ETFs