Daily return: what is the total return obtained by your assets in custody on the last trading day.

Day trading: Refers to the strategy of executing purchase and sale operations during the course of the same day, with the intention that the investor benefits from the price changes of the assets in his portfolio.

Dealer market: is a financial market mechanism in which several intermediaries publish the prices at which they will buy or sell a specific security or instrument.

Decentralized finance: this defines a system in which there are no intermediaries to perform services such as transfers, investments and loans.

Defensive Stock: is a stock that tends to provide steady dividends and stable earnings, regardless of the state of the overall stock market. An example of this are the following companies: Walmart (WMT), Tyson Foods (TSN) and FedEx (FDX).

Deflation: is a generalized decline in the prices of goods and services, usually associated with a contraction of the supply of money and credit in the economy.

Demonetization: is the act of stripping a monetary unit of its status as legal tender. It occurs whenever there is a change in the national currency.

Diversification: is a strategy that uses a combination of different types of assets in an attempt to limit exposure to a single asset and thus risk your entire investment.

Dividend: is the distribution of a company's profits to its shareholders, the amount of dividends and the frequency is determined by the company's board of directors.
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Dividend per share (DPS): It's the sum of declared dividends issued by a company for every ordinary share outstanding. The figure is calculated by dividing the total dividends by a firm, including interim dividends, over a period of time (a quarter or a year, typically) by the number of company's outstanding ordinary shares.

Dividend Yield: this is a financial indicator that compares dividends per share with the current share price. It is an estimate of a shareholder's dividend yield based on the current share price.

DJIA "The Dow Jones Industrial Average": this is an index composed of 30 well-established and financially sound companies (called Blue Chip stocks).

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA): is a stock market index that tracks 30 large public companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq. These companies are representative in the American economy, so in the event of a drastic change, it is common to also change the composition of the index to companies that better reflect the current state of the economy.It is also known as Dow 30, which is considered as an indicator of the U.S. economy.