- Industry: Financial services
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The use of a mathematical model to imitate a situation many times in order to estimate the likelihood of various possible outcomes. See: Monte Carlo simulation.
Industry:Financial services
A refunding rate that falls on the stopping curve.
Industry:Financial services
A company that is the object of a takeover attempt, friendly or hostile.
Industry:Financial services
Individuals who take positions in securities and their derivatives with the objective of making profits. Traders can make markets by trading the flow. When they do this, their objective is to earn the bid/ask spread. Traders can also take proprietary positions in which they seek to profit from the directional movement of prices or spread positions.
Industry:Financial services
To trade for small gains. Scalping normally involves establishing and liquidating a position quickly, usually within the same day.
Industry:Financial services
A leading futures and options exchange in Singapore.
Industry:Financial services
A highly complex security that requires a long "story" so that investors may understand the corporation and be persuaded of its merits.
Industry:Financial services
A fee paid to an underwriter in connection with an underwritten rights offering or an underwritten forced conversion. Represents compensation for each share of common stock the underwriter obtains and must resell upon the exercise of rights or conversion of bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A stock that is very difficult to trade to because of illiquidity.
Industry:Financial services
