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Average Down — The process of buying additional shares in a company at lower prices than you originally purchased. This brings the average price you ve paid for all your shares down. Sometimes this is a good strategy, other times it s better to sell off a… …   Investment dictionary

average down — A strategy used by investors to reduce the average cost of shares, in which the investor purchases more shares with a fixed amount of capital as the price of the shares decreases. The investor receives more shares per dollar and decreases the… …   Financial and business terms

average — averageable, adj. averagely, adv. averageness, n. /av euhr ij, av rij/, n., adj., v., averaged, averaging. n. 1. a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in… …   Universalium

average — /ˈævrɪdʒ/ (say avrij), /ˈævərɪdʒ / (say avuhrij) noun 1. an arithmetical mean. 2. a quantity intermediate to a set of quantities. 3. the ordinary, normal, or typical amount, rate, quality, kind, etc.; the common run. 4. Commerce a. a small charge …   Australian English dictionary

average — [av′ər ij, av′rij] n. [altered (by assoc. with ME average, money rent paid in place of service by the tenant with his horses < aver, draft horse) < OFr avarie, damage to ship or goods, mooring charges < OIt avaria < Ar ʿ awār, damaged …   English World dictionary

Average True Range — (ATR) is a technical analysis indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder, based on trading ranges smoothed by an N day exponential moving average.The range of a day s trading is simply mbox{high} mbox{low}. The true range extends it to yesterday s… …   Wikipedia

Down in the Bottomlands — is a novella written by Harry Turtledove. It takes place in an alternative history in which the Atlantic Ocean did not reflood the Mediterranean Sea 5.5 million years ago in the Miocene Epoch, as it did in our history. The Mediterranean Basin… …   Wikipedia

Down to the Dirt — Film poster Directed by Justin Simms Written by Joel Hynes Justin …   Wikipedia

Average margin per user — (AMPU) is one of several criteria for measuring the success of telephone companies. It is an alternative to ARPU, which focuses on revenue per unit. The central premise is that by attention to the margin produced per sold unit, not the amount of… …   Wikipedia

Down syndrome — Classification and external resources Boy with Down syndrome assembling a …   Wikipedia

Average — An arithmetic mean of selected stocks intended to represent the behavior of the market or some component of it. One good example is the widely quoted Dow Jones Industrial Average, which adds the current prices of the 30 DJIA s stocks, and divides …   Financial and business terms