Terms & Glossary

Investment, Trading, Stocks and Financial Abbreviations
AMEX - American Stock Exchange
BB - Big Boys (i.e. Institutional Investors and Funds)
BOD - Board Of Directors
BV - Book Value
CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate
COGS - Cost of Goods Sold
CPF - Central Provident Fund
CPFIS - CPF Investment Scheme
CPF-MA - CPF Medisave Account
CPF-OA - CPF Ordinary Account
CPF-RA - CPF Retirement Account
CPF-SA - CPF Special Account
DJIA - Dow Jones Industrial Average
DPU - Dividends/Distribution Per Unit
DYODD - Do your own due diligence
DYOR - Do your own research
EBITDA - Earnings before interest, tax, debt and amortisation
EPS - Earnings per share
ETF - Exchange-Traded Funds
EV - Enterprise Value
EW - Elliot Wave
FA - Fundamental Analysis (Stocks) / Fixed Assets (Accounting)
FIRE - Financial Independence; Retire Early
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FY - Fiscal Year
ILP - Investment-Linked Policies
IRR - Internal Rate of Returns
MAS - Monetary Authority of Singapore
NAV - Net Asset Value
NOPAT - Net Operating Profit After Tax
NPV -Net Present Value
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
OBV - On-balance Volume
P/B - Price-to-Book Value ratio
P/E / PER- Price-to-Earning ratio
REIT - Real Estate & Industrial Trust
ROA - Return on Assets
ROE - Return on Equities
ROR - Rate of Return
RSI - Relative Strength Index
RTO - Reverse Takeover
S&P 500 - Standard & Poor 500
SIBOR - Singapore Interbank Offer Rate
STI - Straits Times Index
TA - Technical Analysis
VIX - Volatility Index (i.e. an index that shows measurement of investor fear)
XIRR - Extended Internal Rate of Returns