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Absolute Value

The unsigned portion of a number. Specifically, any negative numbers are converted to positive numbers.

Account Equity

See Equity.

Account Profit

See Profit.

Accounts Payable

A term used in annual and quarterly reports to indicate the amount of money a company owes to its suppliers.

Accounts Receivable

A term used in annual and quarterly reports to indicate the amount of money a company is owed by its customers.

Accumulation

The beginning of a bull market. After most investors are discouraged with the declining prices of a bear market, new investors begin accumulating shares at their new low price.

Alert

A way of highlighting when certain conditions occur. Alerts are a type of field that generates a message when a given set of rules are true.

&  For help with alerts, see Using Alerts to Highlight Events.

Alert Definition

A definition associated with generating an alert. Alert definitions include the format of the message to generate and the rules to check for when to generate that message.

&  For help with alert definitions, see Writing Your Own Alert Definitions.

Alpha

The amount an investment performs relative to the entire market. Typically, this is a comparison to the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500.

American Stock Exchange

A stock exchange in the United States dealing primarily with small and medium-sized companies.

AMEX

See American Stock Exchange.

Analog Value Signal (Optimal Signals Usage)

A type of optimal signal. Analog value signals adjust the strength of the signal based on the potential profitability of the signal.

&  For help with optimal signals, see Generating an Optimal Signal.

Annualized Return

The annualized gain or loss from an initial investment. It can be used to evaluate the overall profitability of the signal. This value is the annualized return on the investment from its initial value to its final value. Additional background information is available on the help for the Modify Trading Style Dialog.

Annual Trades

The average number of trades that took place over the period of an entire year.

Artificial Neural Network

See Neural Network.

ASCII File

See Text File.

Ask Price

The lowest price an investor will accept to sell a stock.

At the money (Options Trading Usage)

An option that has a strike price equal to the price of the underlying security.

Axon

A type of component in a neural network. Axons represent the place where information enters or is processed in the neural network. This is different from synapses, which combine and weigh the information in the axons.

&  For help with neural network components, see the Advanced Topology Settings Dialog help.