ISO 3166 country code for GRENADA. GDP See: Gross Domestic Product GE The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GEORGIA. GF The two-character ISO 3166 country code for FRENCH GUIANA. GH The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GHANA. GI The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GIBRALTAR. GIC See: Guaranteed Investment Contract GL The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GREENLAND. GNP See: Gross National Product GM The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GAMBIA. GMC See: Guaranteed Mortgage Certificate GN The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GUINEA. GP The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GUADELOUPE. GPM See: Graduated Payment Mortgages GQ The two-character ISO 3166 country code for EQUATORIAL GUINEA. GR The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GREECE. GS The two-character ISO 3166 country code for SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS. GT The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GUATEMALA. GTC See: Good 'til cancelled order GU The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GUAM. GW The two-character ISO 3166 country code for GUINEA-BISSAU. GY The two-character ISO 3166 country code for the for GUYANA. Gadfly A nickname for a "professional" securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends annual meetings and asks senior management hard and often embarrassing questions. Gaijin Japanese term used to describe a non-Japanese investor in Japan (outside person). A more polite version of the same word is gaikokujin which means outside country person. Gain A profit on a securitiestransaction recognized by selling a security for more than the security originally cost. The gain is the difference between the cost and the sale. Gamma The ratio of a change in the optiondelta to a small change in the price of the asset on which the option is written. Gap Financing that is required, but for which no provision has been made. The difference in totalfunding needed for a proposal and the amount of funding already made available. Gap opening In the context of general equities, opening price that is substantially higher or lower than the previous day's closing price, usually because of some extraordinarily positive or negative news. Garage The floor of the NYSE, which is situated on the north side of the main tradingfloor. Garbatrage Rising stock prices and increased market activity in an entire sector caused by a psychology change stemming from a major takeover involving two companies in the sector. Speculators feel other takeovers are likely in the sector. See: Rumortrage. Garman-Kohlhagen option pricing model A model widely used to price foreign currency options. Gather in the stops A marketstrategy in which investors sell stocks to drive prices to a level that breaks through stop orders known to exist. Once the price is low enough, the stop orders become market orders and are executed, to create snowballing. Gaussian A system whose probabilities are well described by the normal distribution, or bell shaped curve. GDP implicit price deflator An economic technique used to account for inflation by comparing the current-dollar gross domestic product GDP to >constant-dollar GDP as a ratio. The ratio accounts for price changes of goods and