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What is Morning Star?
A bullish candlestick pattern that consists of three candles that have demonstrated the following characteristics:

1. The first bar is a large red candlestick located within a defined downtrend.
2. The second bar is a small-bodied candle (either red or white) that closes below the first red bar.
3. The last bar is a large white candle that opens above the middle candle and closes near the center of the first bar’s body.

As shown by the chart, this pattern is used by traders as an early indication that the downtrend is about to reverse. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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What is Weighted Average Rating Factor – WARF?
A measure that is used by credit rating companies to determine the credit quality of a portfolio. This measure allows rating companies to look at a portfolio as a single security, and assign it a single rating.WARFs are most often calculated by rating companies for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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What is Economies of Scope?
An economic theory stating that the average total cost of production decreases as a result of increasing the number of different goods produced. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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What is Inflation-Linked Certificates of Deposit?
Federally insured debt securities that are similar to regular certificates of deposit (CDs), but provide investors with inflationary protection via annually variable interest rates that increase or decrease with changes in the consumer price index, a measure of inflation. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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What is Gartley Pattern?
In technical analysis, it is a complex price pattern based on Fibonacci numbers/ratios. It is used to determine buy and sell signals by measuring price retracements of a stock’s up and down movement in stock price.

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What is Weather Future?
A type of weather derivative that obligates the buyer to purchase the value of the underlying weather index – measured in heating degree days (HDD) or cooling degree days (CDD) – at a future date. The settlement price of the underlying weather index is equal to the value of the relevant month’s HDD/CDD multiplied by $20. Weather futures can enable businesses to protect themselves against losses caused by unexpected shifts in weather conditions. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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What is Consumer Surplus?
An economic measure of consumer satisfaction, which is calculated by analyzing the difference between what consumers are willing to pay for a good or service relative to its market price. A consumer surplus occurs when the consumer is willing to pay more for a given product than the current market price. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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What is Fully Convertible Debenture – FCD?
A type of debt security where the whole value of the debenture is convertible into equity shares at the issuer’s notice. The ratio of conversion is decided by the issuer when the debenture is issued. Upon conversion, the investors enjoy the same status as ordinary shareholders of the company. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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