Alpha stocks

Alpha Stocks
Alpha stocks are a group of traded securities that make up the most traded securities on the Stock Exchange Automated Quotation system (or SEAQ). The SEAQ is made up of middle sized firms who don't make the FTSE-100.

Blue chips, which take their name from the most valuable poker chips and in the UK are known as alpha stocks, ...

Footsie
A nickname for the "Financial Times' " FT-SE 100 Index (Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100 stock index). It is a market value-weighted index of 100 alpha stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange.
See: Alpha; Index ...

on the London Stock Exchange, alpha stocks were the largest and most actively traded companies in a classification system that was adopted after the big bang in October 1986 and was replaced in January 1991 with the Normal Market Size (NMS) ...

See also: Acquisitions, Values, London stock exchange, Coefficient, Personal finance