Financial and business terms. 2012.
Volume Weighted Average Price - VWAP — A trading benchmark used especially in pension plans. VWAP is calculated by adding up the dollars traded for every transaction (price multiplied by number of shares traded) and then dividing by the total shares traded for the day. The theory is… … Investment dictionary
Volume-weighted Average Price — ► See VWAP … Financial and business terms
Time Weighted Average Price — TWAP is a trading acronym for Time Weighted Average Price. TWAP is the average price of contracts or shares over a specified time. TWAP is also sometimes used to describe a TWAP trading strategy, that is a strategy that will attempt to execute an … Wikipedia
average price — The transaction was effected at a price based on a volume weighted average price over a given period. London Stock Exchange Glossary … Financial and business terms
closing price — The last price paid for a commodity on any trading day. The exchange clearinghouse determines a firm s net gains or losses, margin requirements, and the next day s price limits, based on each futures and options contract settlement price. If… … Financial and business terms
Average — An arithmetic mean of selected stocks intended to represent the behavior of the market or some component of it. One good example is the widely quoted Dow Jones Industrial Average, which adds the current prices of the 30 DJIA s stocks, and divides … Financial and business terms
average — An arithmetic mean return of selected stocks intended to represent the behavior of the market or some component of it. One good example is the widely quoted Dow Jones Industrial Average, which adds the current prices of the 30 DJIA stocks, and… … Financial and business terms
Price index — A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to… … Wikipedia
Price of petroleum — This article is about the price of crude oil. For information about derivative motor fuels, see gasoline and diesel usage and pricing. For detailed history of price movements since 2003, see 2003 to 2011 world oil market chronology. Brent barrel… … Wikipedia
Price Volume Index — A technical analysis indicator that is essentially a volume weighted RSI (relative strength index). It attempts to measure the amount of money entering and leaving the market. ► See also Moving Average, RSI, Technical Analysis … Financial and business terms
