- Industry: Financial services
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Used in the context of general equities. 1) Condition of the traders position in the security and expectations of stock placement with accounts just prior to taking an order to the exchange floor for execution; 2) On the way in. Antithesis of come out of the trade.
Industry:Financial services
Bars with a minimum content of 99.5% gold, which may be held by central banks or traded by investors.
Industry:Financial services
Bonds issued by gold-mining companies and backed by gold. The bonds make interest payments based on the level of gold prices.
Industry:Financial services
A rapid rise in the price of a stock resulting from heavy buying, which usually creates the market condition for a rapid fall in the price.
Industry:Financial services
The matching of the investor's requirements and needs such as risk tolerance and growth potential preference with a specific investment.
Industry:Financial services
A term used to designate all contracts covering the sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery on a commodity exchange.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Chronological listing of trades in a security showing the price, size, exchange, and time (to the second) of the trades; obtained by hitting "#M" on Quotron.
Industry:Financial services
A firm or person engaged in soliciting or accepting and handling orders for the purchase or sale of futures contracts, subject to the rules of a futures exchange and, who, in connexion with such solicitation or acceptance of orders, accepts any money or securities to provide margin for any resulting trades or contracts. The FCM must be licenced by the CFTC. Related: Commission house, omnibus account.
Industry:Financial services
Five characteristics that are used to form a judgement about a customer's creditworthiness: character, capacity, capital, collateral, and conditions.
Industry:Financial services
A legally binding agreement to buy or sell a commodity or financial instrument in a designated future month at a price agreed upon today by the buyer and seller. Futures contracts are standardised according to the quality, quantity, and delivery time and location for each commodity. A futures contract differs from an option because an option is the right to buy or sell, while a futures contract is the promise to actually make a transaction. A future is part of a class of securities called derivatives, so named because such securities derive their value from the worth of an underlying investment.
Industry:Financial services
