The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is an index that tracks the stock prices of 30 significant publicly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ. It serves as a key indicator of the performance of the industrial sector and the overall U.S. stock market.
FINRA is a self-regulatory organization established in 2007 aimed at overseeing brokers and dealers in the United States securities market, providing training, arbitration, and enforcement of a written code of practice to ensure market integrity.
NASDAQ, an electronic market for securities that began in 1971, has grown to become the largest stock market in the USA, listing more than 3000 companies. It was the first screen-based trading system to operate without a physical trading floor.
A computerized system that provides brokers and dealers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter (OTC) as well as for many New York Stock Exchange-listed securities. NASDAQ quotes are published in the financial pages of most newspapers.
The over-the-counter market (OTC market) facilitates the trading of financial instruments that occur directly between two parties, outside of formal exchanges.
