Tax shields:Amount of depreciation and/or interest charged against income thus protecting that amount from tax. Technical analysis:The study of market action usually with price charts which includes volume and open interest patterns. Total debt service coverage :Cash flow from operations after taxes + rentals + adjusted interest / interest + rent +current maturities + sinking fund payments Total risk:Systematic risk plus unsystematic risk. Traded Vol:The volume of trade in a stock. Trend:Refers to the direction of prices. Rising peaks and troughs constitute an uptrend; falling peaks and troughs constitute a downtrend. Trendlines:Straight lines drawn on a chart below reaction lows in an uptrend or above rally peaks in a downtrend that determine the steepness of the current trend. Triangles:Sideways price patterns in which prices fluctuate within converging trendlines. The three types of triangles are the symmetrical the ascending and the descending.
