vocabulary:
  title: StockData Vocabulary
  description: >-
    Domain vocabulary for StockData.org API covering financial market data,
    price series, corporate actions, news sentiment, and entity classification.
  version: "1.0"
  created: "2026-05-02"
  modified: "2026-05-02"
  source: https://www.stockdata.org/documentation

terms:
  - term: Ticker Symbol
    definition: >-
      An abbreviation used to uniquely identify a publicly traded company or
      financial instrument on a stock exchange (e.g., AAPL for Apple Inc.).
    aliases: [symbol, ticker]
    tags: [Market Data, Equities]

  - term: OHLCV
    definition: >-
      Open, High, Low, Close, Volume — the standard five data points recorded
      for each time period in financial price series data.
    aliases: [candlestick data, bar data]
    tags: [Market Data, Technical Analysis]

  - term: Intraday Data
    definition: >-
      Price and volume data recorded at sub-daily intervals (minute or hour)
      within a single trading session.
    tags: [Market Data, Technical Analysis]

  - term: End-of-Day Data
    definition: >-
      Consolidated price and volume data recorded at the close of each trading
      day, week, month, quarter, or year.
    aliases: [EOD, daily data]
    tags: [Market Data, Historical Data]

  - term: Adjusted Data
    definition: >-
      Historical price data that has been retroactively modified to account for
      corporate actions such as stock splits and dividends, enabling accurate
      long-term price comparisons.
    aliases: [split-adjusted, adjusted close]
    tags: [Market Data, Corporate Actions]

  - term: Extended Hours
    definition: >-
      Trading activity outside regular market hours, including pre-market
      (typically 4am–9:30am ET) and after-hours (4pm–8pm ET) sessions.
    aliases: [pre-market, after-hours]
    tags: [Market Data, Trading]

  - term: Stock Split
    definition: >-
      A corporate action where a company divides existing shares into multiple
      new shares to increase share count while reducing per-share price proportionally.
    tags: [Corporate Actions, Equities]

  - term: Dividend
    definition: >-
      A distribution of a portion of a company's earnings to shareholders,
      expressed as a per-share cash amount.
    tags: [Corporate Actions, Income]

  - term: Market Capitalization
    definition: >-
      The total market value of a company's outstanding shares, calculated as
      share price multiplied by total shares outstanding.
    aliases: [market cap]
    tags: [Equities, Valuation]

  - term: Sentiment Score
    definition: >-
      A numerical measure of the positive or negative tone of a news article
      toward a specific entity, ranging from -1 (very negative) to +1 (very positive).
    tags: [News, Sentiment Analysis, NLP]

  - term: Relevance Score
    definition: >-
      A measure of how relevant a news article is to a specific search query
      or entity filter, ranging from 0 (not relevant) to 1 (highly relevant).
    tags: [News, Search]

  - term: Entity
    definition: >-
      A financially traded or tracked instrument recognized in news articles,
      including equities, ETFs, indices, mutual funds, currencies, and cryptocurrencies.
    tags: [Entities, Classification]

  - term: MIC Code
    definition: >-
      Market Identifier Code (ISO 10383) — a standardized four-character code
      identifying a stock exchange or trading platform (e.g., XNAS for NASDAQ).
    tags: [Market Data, Standards]

  - term: Trending Entity
    definition: >-
      A financial entity identified as having unusually high news mention volume
      within a given time window, potentially indicating market-moving activity.
    tags: [News, Sentiment Analysis]

  - term: News Source
    definition: >-
      A media outlet, publisher, or newswire that contributes articles to the
      StockData news feed. StockData aggregates 5,000+ sources in 30+ languages.
    tags: [News, Data Sources]

  - term: API Token
    definition: >-
      A unique credential string issued by StockData upon registration that must
      be passed as the api_token query parameter to authenticate all API requests.
    aliases: [api_token, access token]
    tags: [Authentication, Security]

  - term: Rate Limit
    definition: >-
      The maximum number of API requests permitted per time period under a
      given subscription plan. Exceeding the rate limit returns HTTP 429.
    tags: [API Management, Quotas]