Wash Sale - A Wash Sale is stock, approved by the Federal Reserve and an investment broker to serve as collateral for margindebt. A margin debt is achieved when someone is buying stock with borrowed money. They are put in separate accounts; so called margin accounts and it is an effective way for a broker to reduce financing charges. The criteria to use securities for margin debts are usually strict. The Federal Reserve has a set of standards for this kind of stock accounts. Brokers often use standards that are even stricter than the Federal Reserve's set of standards.
Buy Break - A buy break is an investment strategy that some investors use to gauge when to buy a stock. The investor believes that when a stock passes a certain resistance level, which is an inability for a stock to increase past a certain...