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Intraday Indicative Value (IIV) is a real-time estimate of an ETF's value, representing an approximate price of the fund's underlying assets updated during trading hours. It is not the official price; the official net as…
Intrinsic value, in derivatives, is the immediate payoff an option would produce if exercised today; for a call, intrinsic value = max(0, S − K); for a put, intrinsic value = max(0, K − S).
Inventory is a current asset consisting of goods and materials held for sale or use in production.
Inventory turnover is the ratio of cost of goods sold (COGS) to average inventory, indicating how many times a company moves its inventory through the business and replenishes it during a period.
An inverse exchange-traded fund (inverse ETF) is an ETF designed to deliver the opposite of the daily return of a specified index or benchmark, typically using derivative contracts and daily resets.
An inverse head and shoulders is a chart pattern in technical analysis indicating a potential reversal from a downtrend to an uptrend; it forms three troughs, with the middle trough (the head) the lowest and the outer tr…
An inverted hammer is a single-candle candlestick pattern characterized by a small real body near the session's low, a long upper wick, and little or no lower wick, typically forming after a downtrend and viewed as a pot…
An inverted yield curve is a situation in which shorter-dated bond yields exceed longer-dated yields, reversing the typical upward slope of the yield curve.
A U.S. federal statute enacted in 1940 that regulates investment advisers by requiring registration, disclosure, and conduct rules; it governs advisers registered with the SEC or with state regulators and establishes pra…
The Investment Company Act of 1940 is a U.S. federal law that regulates investment companies and their advisers by requiring registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission and establishing governance, disclosur…
An academic and practical style factor in factor investing that captures differences in stock returns related to firms' investment activity.
Investment Grade (IG) refers to bonds that are rated as having relatively low credit risk by major rating agencies, typically BBB- or higher by Standard & Poor's (S&P) and Fitch, or Baa3 or higher by Moody's.
Investor sentiment is the overall mood or attitude of investors toward financial markets or an asset class, reflected in price trends and trading behavior. It captures whether investors are generally optimistic or pessim…
Island Reversal is a chart pattern in which a block of price action becomes isolated from surrounding price movement by gaps on both sides, typically signaling a potential reversal of the prior price trend.
The ISM Manufacturing Index, officially the ISM Manufacturing PMI, is a monthly, survey-based diffusion index produced by the Institute for Supply Management that gauges activity in the U.S. manufacturing sector.
The ISM Manufacturing PMI (Institute for Supply Management Purchasing Managers' Index) is a monthly diffusion index published by the Institute for Supply Management that surveys U.S. manufacturers to gauge manufacturing …
The ISM Non-Manufacturing Index (often called the ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI) is a monthly diffusion index published by the Institute for Supply Management that tracks activity in the U.S. services sector and other non-ma…
The ISM Services PMI is a monthly diffusion index published by the Institute for Supply Management that measures expansion or contraction in the U.S. services sector; a reading above 50 indicates expansion, while below 5…