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- Definition Overdraft Explain Provision of instant credit by a lending institution
- Definition Credit End Open Explain Revolving line of credit that is extended with every purchase or cash advance
- Definition Indicator Oversold Overbought Explain An indicator that attempts to define when prices have moved too far and too fast in either direction and thus are vulnerable to reaction
- Definition Debt Overlapping Explain The portion of debt of political subdivisions or neighboring special districts that a municipality is responsible for
- Definition Strategy Overlay Explain A strategy of using futures for asset allocation by pension sponsors to avoid disrupting the activities of money managers
- Definition Risk Delivery Overnight Explain differences in time zones between settlement centers require that payment or delivery on one side of a transaction be made without knowing
- Definition Position Overnight Explain A broker-dealer's position in a security at the end of a trading day
- Definition Repo Overnight Explain A repurchase agreement with a term of one day
- Definition Overperform Explain To appreciate at a rate faster than appreciation of the overall market
- Definition Overreaching Explain Creating artificial volume in a stock through activity not generated by normal/natural buyers and sellers in the market
- Definition Hypothesis Overreaction Explain The supposition that investors overreact to unanticipated news, resulting in exaggerated movements in stock prices followed by corrections
- Definition Overshooting Explain reflect an especially high rate of prepayments the first time it crosses the threshold for refinancing, especially if two or more years
- Definition Oversold Explain Technically too low in price, and hence a technical correction is expected. Antithesis of overbought
- Definition Issue Oversubscribed Explain shares or bonds they want, so underwriters must allocate the shares or bonds among investors. This occurs when a new issue is underpriced
- Definition Privilege Oversubscription Explain In a rights issue, arrangement by which shareholders are given the right to apply for any shares that are not taken up
- Definition Overtrading Explain discretionary account. Underwriters persuade brokerage clients to purchase some part of a new issue in return for the purchase by the
- Definition Overvalued Explain A stock price that is seen as too high according to the company's price-earnings ratio, expected earnings, or financial condition
- Definition Overwithholding Explain Deducting and paying too much tax that may be refunded to the taxpayer or applied against the next period's obligation
- Definition Overwriting Explain involves selling call or put options on stocks that are believed to be overpriced or underpriced; the options are expected not to be
- Definition Plan Pension Overfunded Explain A pension plan that has a positive surplus (i.e., assets exceed liabilities
- Definition Exchange Stock Oslo Explain An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway
- Definition Board Bulletin Otc Explain bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system
- Definition Stock Margin Otc Explain Shares traded over-the-counter that can be used as margin securities under Regulation T
- Definition Capital Other Explain capital is a residual category that groups all the capital transactions that have not been included in direct investment, portfolio
- Definition Assets Current Other Explain Value of noncash assets, including prepaid expenses and accounts receivable, due within one year
- Definition Income Other Explain Income from activities that are not undertaken in the ordinary course of a firm's business
- Definition Other long-term liabilities Explain benefits, deferred taxes, and other obligations not requiring interest payments that must be paid over a period of more than one year
- Definition Sources Other Explain period from operations by sources other than depreciation or deferred taxes. Part of free cash flow calculation
- Definition Out Explain Used in the context of general equities. (1) No longer obligated to an order, as it has already been cancelled: (2) advertised on Autex
- Definition Out-of-favor industry or stock Explain An unpopular industry or stock that usually has a low price-earnings ratio
- Definition Line Of Out Explain low in comparison with similar-quality stocks in the same industry, according to its price/earnings ratio
- Definition Out-of-the-money option Explain the strike price is greater than the market price of the underlying security. That is, you have the right to purchase a security at a price
- Definition Out of the name Explain Used in the context of general equities. To no longer have an active trading profile/position in the stock
- Definition There Out Explain Indication gained from their trading and inquiry activity that buyers and/or (more often) sellers are in the market and should be found
- Definition With Out Explain Used in the context of general equities. Showing of an inquiry to another broker by a customer ( he's out with
- Definition Rate Outright Explain Actual forward rate expressed in dollars per currency unit, or vice versa
- Definition Director Outside Explain A director of a company who is not an employee of that company and brings in outside experience to help make board decisions
- Definition Market Outside Explain Used in the context of general equities. Outside the inside market (above the lowest offering and below the highest bid
- Definition Outsourcing Explain Purchasing a significant percentage of intermediate components from outside suppliers
- Definition Outstanding Explain Used in the context of general equities. Stock held by shareholders (verses the company's treasury stock
- Definition Capital Share Outstanding Explain Issued share capital less the par value of shares that are held as the company's treasury stock
- Definition Shares Outstanding Explain Shares that are currently owned by investors
- Definition Over-the-counter (OTC) Explain an exchange market) where geographically dispersed dealers are linked by telephones and computer screens. The market is for securities not
- Definition Overage Explain Difference between how much common stock one party must sell and the other wishes to buy for the same amount of convertible in a swap
- Definition Overall market price coverage Explain by the total of the market value of the security issue and the book value of liabilities and issues having a prior claim. This is used to
- Definition Overhang Explain Sizable block of securities or commodities contracts that, if released on the market, would put downward pressure on prices; prohibits
- Definition Overhead Explain The expenses of a business that are not attributable directly) the production or sale of goods
- Definition Overheating Explain An economy that is growing very quickly, with the risk of high inflation
- Definition Overissue Explain An excess of issued shares over authorized shares
- Definition Market The Overlap Explain Create a crossed market by expressing a willingness to sell on the bid side of the market and buy on the offer side
- Definition Option Explain obligation, to buy or sell an asset at a set price on or before a given date. Investors, not companies, issue options. Buyers of call
- Definition Account Option Explain A brokerage account that is approved to hold option positions or trades
- Definition Agreement Option Explain an option account fills out guarantees the investor will follow trading regulations and has the financial resources to settle possible
- Definition Cycle Option Explain The most common cycles are: January, April, July, and October (JAJO); February, May, August, and November (FMAN); and March, June
- Definition Elasticity Option Explain The percentage increase in an option's value, given a 1 percentage point change in the value of the underlying security
- Definition Holder Option Explain A person who has an option that has not been exercised
- Definition Margin Option Explain The margin requirement for options described in Regulation T and in brokers' individual policies
- Definition Fund Mutual Option Explain A mutual fund that buys and sells options for aggressive or conservative investment
- Definition Option not to deliver Explain In the mortgage pipeline, an additional hedge placed in tandem with the forward or substitute sale
- Definition Premium Option Explain The option price
- Definition Price Option Explain price the buyer of the options contract pays for the right to buy or sell a security at a specified price in the future
- Definition Seller Option Explain Also called the option writer; the party who grants a right to trade a security at a given price in the future
- Definition Series Option Explain A group of options on the same underlying security with the same exercise price and maturity month
- Definition Spread Option Explain class at the same time in order to profit from changes in the size of the spread between different options
- Definition Dividend Optional Explain A dividends that the shareholder can elect to receive either in cash or in stock
- Definition Bond Payment Optional Explain A bond whose principal and/or interest may be paid in foreign or domestic currency at the discretion of the bondholder
- Definition Contract Options Explain option price, gives the option buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy (or sell) a financial asset at the exercise price from (or
- Definition Multiple Contract Options Explain multiplied by the cash index value gives the dollar value of the stock index underlying an option. That is the dollar value of the
- Definition Physicals On Options Explain Interest rate options written on fixed income securities, as opposed to those written on interest rate futures contracts
- Definition Better Or Explain Indication on the order ticket of a limit order to buy or sell securities at a price better than the specified limit price if a better
- Definition Contract Oral Explain A contract not recorded on paper or on computer, buy made vocally which is usually enforceable
- Definition Shares Ordinary Explain Shares of non-U.S. companies traded in their individual home markets. Usually cannot be delivered in the U.S. See: ADR
- Definition Imbalance Order Explain Orders of one kind for a stock not offset by the opposite orders, which causes a wide spread between bid and offer prices
- Definition Room Order Explain The brokerage firm department receives and processes all orders to buy and sell securities
- Definition Splitting Order Explain Breaking up orders so that they can be processed as small orders for execution by SOES. Prohibited by NASD
- Definition Ticket Order Explain A form detailing an order instruction that a customer gives an account executive
- Definition Income Ordinary Explain The income derived from the regular operating activities of a firm or individual
- Definition Interest Ordinary Explain Interest based on a 360-day year instead of a 365-day year, resulting in what can be a significant difference
- Definition Chart Organization Explain A chart showing the hierarchical interrelationships of positions within an organization
- Definition Exchange Organized Explain purchasers and sellers regularly gather to trade securities according to the formal rules adopted by the exchange
- Definition Value Face Original Explain The principal amount of a mortgage as of its issue date
- Definition Margin Original Explain The margin needed to cover a specific new position. Related: Margin, security deposit (initial
- Definition Maturity Original Explain Maturity at issue. For example, a five-year note has an original maturity of five years; one year later it has a maturity of four years
- Definition Origination Explain The making of mortgage loans
- Definition Originator Explain banker that initially made a mortgage loan that is part of a pool. Also, an investment bank that has worked with the issuer of a new
- Definition Stock Orphan Explain A stock that is ignored by research analysts and as a result may be trading at low price earnings ratios
- Definition Operation Market Open Explain Purchase or sale of government securities by the monetary authorities to increase or decrease the domestic money supply
- Definition Open-market purchase operation Explain shares of stock in market transactions at current market prices, in competition with other prospective investors
- Definition Rates Market Open Explain Interest rates that are determined in the open market by supply and demand, as opposed to being set by the Federal Reserve Board
- Definition Open (good-till-cancelled) order (GTC order) Explain Order to buy or sell a security that stays active until it is completed or the investor cancels it
- Definition Outcry Open Explain exchanges, typically involving calling out the specific details of a buy or sell order, so that the information is available to all traders
- Definition Position Open Explain A net long or short position whose value will change with a change in prices
- Definition Repo Open Explain term. The agreement is made on a day-to-day basis, and either the borrower or the lender may choose to terminate. The rate paid is higher
- Definition Opening Explain trading session officially designated by an exchange, during which all transactions are considered made at the opening. Related: Close
- Definition Price Opening Explain The range of prices at which the first bids and offers are made or the first transactions are completed on an exchange
- Definition Purchase Opening Explain Creation of or increase in a long position in a given series of options
- Definition Sale Opening Explain Creation of or increase in a short position in a given series of options
- Definition Transaction Opening Explain or sell transaction that creates a position out of a flat one (writing an option short or buying an option long). Antithesis of closing
- Definition Flow Cash Operating Explain taxes. Measures the cash generated from operations, not counting capital spending or working capital requirements
- Definition Cycle Operating Explain The average time between the acquisition of materials or services and the final cash realization from that acquisition
- Definition Exposure Operating Explain Degree to which exchange rate changes, in combination with price changes, will alter a company's future operating cash flows
- Definition Lease Operating Explain lease in which the contact period is shorter than the life of the equipment, and the lessor pays all maintenance and servicing costs
- Definition Leverage Operating Explain Fixed operating costs, which are characterized as leverage because they accentuate variations in profits
- Definition Operating profit (or loss) Explain Revenue from a firm's regular activities less costs and expenses and before income deductions
- Definition Margin Profit Operating Explain The ratio of operating profit to net sales
- Definition Rate Operating Explain The percentage of total production capacity of a company, industry, or country that is being used
- Definition Ratio Operating Explain A ratio that measures a firm's operating efficiency
- Definition Operating in the red Explain Doing business while losing money
- Definition Risk Operating Explain firm, without regard to financial risk. The risk that is created by operating leverage. Also called business risk
- Definition Market Efficient Operationally Explain transactions services that reflect the true costs associated with furnishing those services. Also called an internally efficient market
- Definition Shopping Opinion Explain reporting objectives by following questionable accounting principles, with the help of an auditor willing to sanction the practices
- Definition Opm Explain Stands for other people's money, which refers to borrowed funds used to increase the return on invested capital
- Definition Oporto Explain Bolsa de Derivados do Oporto) trading futures on the ten-year government bond, Portuguese stock index, and three-month interbank deposit
- Definition Opportunity cost of capital Explain Expected return that is forgone by investing in a project rather than in comparable financial securities
- Definition Costs Opportunity Explain actual investment and a desired investment adjusted for fixed costs and execution costs. When not all desired trades can be implemented
- Definition Set Opportunity Explain The possible expected return and standard deviation pairs of all portfolios that can be constructed from a given set of assets
- Definition Contract Optimal Explain types of agency costs (contracting, monitoring, and misbehavior) against one another to minimize the total cost
- Definition Reserves Official Explain Holdings of gold and foreign currencies by official monetary institutions
- Definition Portfolio Optimal Explain by an investor because its risk/reward characteristics approximate the investor's utility function. A portfolio that maximizes an
- Definition Provision Redemption Optimal Explain Provision of a bond indenture that governs the issuer's ability to call the bonds for redemption prior to their scheduled maturity date
- Definition Optimization approach to indexing Explain optimize some objective, such as to maximize the portfolio yield, to maximize convexity, or to maximize expected total returns
- Definition Capacity Optimum Explain The amount of manufacturing output that creates the lowest cost per unit
- Definition Subsidiary Finance Offshore Explain overseas, usually in a tax haven country, whose function is to issue securities abroad for use in either the parent's domestic or
- Definition O.K. to cross Explain Legal to cross the buy and sell orders on the exchange floor because transactor is not a principal in the transaction
- Definition Factoring Line Old Explain Factoring arrangement that provides collection, insurance, and finance for accounts receivable
- Definition Oligopoly Explain A Market characterized by a small number of producers who often act together to control the supply of a particular good and its market price
- Definition Oligopsony Explain A Market characterized by a small number of large buyers who control all purchases and therefore the market price of a good or service
- Definition Ab Stockholm Om Explain trading a wide variety of interest rate and bond futures. The exchange trades futures and options on the OMX equity index
- Definition Dividend Omitted Explain declared, but that is not voted by the board of directors probably because the company is experiencing financial difficulties
- Definition Account Omnibus Explain commission merchant with another futures commission merchant in which the transactions of two or more persons are combined and carried in
- Definition Board On Explain Used in the context of general equities. Long
- Definition On a clean up Explain Willingness to participate in part of a trade if all of the stock available is spoken for except for the clean up amount
- Definition On the close order Explain A market order that is to be executed as close as possible to the closing price of the day
- Definition Order Floor On Explain Security order originating with a member on the floor of an exchange when dealing with his or her own account, versus an upstairs order
- Definition Money The On Explain Used in the context of general equities. In-line, or at the same price, as the last sale
- Definition On the opening order Explain A market order that is to be executed at the price of the first trade of the day
- Definition Open on the print Explain Block trader's term for a block trade that has been completed with an institutional client and printed on the consolidated tape, but
- Definition Run The On Explain The most recently issued (and typically the most liquid) government bond in a particular maturity range
- Definition Sidelines The On Explain An investor who decides not to invest due to market uncertainty
- Definition Take The On Explain Price moving upward, because more buyers are taking offerings, causing offerings to vanish and be replaced by higher ones. Antithesis of
- Definition Tape The On Explain Used in the context of general equities. (1) Trade printed on the ticker tape; (2) news displayed on Reuters or the Dow Jones News Service
- Definition Stock Decision One Explain A quality stock that is not actively traded, but rather held for its growth potential
- Definition Apt Factor One Explain theory that is derived from the one-factor model by using diversification and arbitrage. It shows that the expected return on any risky
- Definition Picture Man One Explain When both bid and the offered prices of a broker come from the same source
- Definition One-share-one-vote rule Explain The principle that all shareholders should have equal voting rights in public companies and each shareholder should have one vote
- Definition Market Way One Explain 1) A market in which only one side, the bid or asked, is quoted or firm. (2) A market that is moving strongly in one direction
- Definition Opd Explain transaction of the day in a security after a delayed opening or the opening transaction in a security whose price has experienced a large
- Definition Open Explain Having either buy or sell interest at the indicated price level and side of a preceding trade. Open on the buy/sell sid means looking for
- Definition Account Open Explain no formal debt contract. The buyer signs a receipt, and the seller records the sale in the sales ledger
- Definition Interest Open Explain contracts traded that have not yet been liquidated either by an offsetting derivative transaction or by delivery. Related: Liquidation
- Definition Contracts Open Explain without completion of the transaction by subsequent sale or purchase, or by making or taking actual delivery of the financial instrument
- Definition Fund End Open Explain Mutual fund that continually creates new shares on demand. Mutual fund shareholders buy the funds at net asset value and may redeem them
- Definition Lease End Open Explain additional payment at the expiration of the lease to adjust for any change in the value of the property
- Definition Mortgage End Open Explain Mortgage against which additional debts may be issued. Related: Closed-end mortgage
- Definition O Explain Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that it is the company's second class of preferred shares
- Definition Option-adjusted spread (OAS) Explain spot rate curve, developed as a measure of the yield spread that can be used to convert dollar differences between theoretical value and
- Definition Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Explain Applies to derivative products. Financial institution that is the actual issuer and guarantor of all listed option contracts
- Definition Original issue discount debt (OID debt) Explain Debt that is initially offered at a price below par
- Definition Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Explain A cartel of oil-producing countries
- Definition Funds Mutual Objective Explain category as stated in the prospectus. There are more than 20 standardized categories. E.g. Aggressive growth, balanced
- Definition Obligation Explain A legal responsibility, such as to repay a debt
- Definition Bond Obligation Explain greater than the value of the underlying property. The difference is designed to compensate the lender for costs exceeding the mortgage
- Definition Obligor Explain A person who has an obligation to pay off a debt
- Definition Lot Odd Explain A trading order for less than 100 shares of stock. Compare round lot
- Definition Dealer Lot Odd Explain A broker who combines odd lots of securities from multiple buy or sell orders into round lots and executes transactions in those round lots
- Definition Odd-lot short-sale ratio Explain The percentage of total odd-lot sales that is composed of short sales
- Definition Theory Lot Odd Explain making trades contrary to odd-lot trading patterns, since odd-lot investors have poor timing. This theory is no longer popular
- Definition Index Oex Explain Applies to derivative products. Quotron symbol for the S;P 100 index option
- Definition Off-balance-sheet financing Explain Financing that is not shown as a liability on a company's balance sheet
- Definition Board Off Explain Transacted away from a national securities exchange even though the stock itself is listed, such as on the NYSE, and instead of on the OTC
- Definition Order Floor Off Explain Order to buy or sell a security that originates off the floor of an exchange; customer orders originating with brokers, as distinguished
- Definition Offer Explain Indicates a willingness to sell at a given price. Related: Bid
- Definition Wanted Offer Explain Notice by a potential buyer of a security that he or she is looking for supply from a potential seller of the security, often requiring a
- Definition Date Offering Explain Date on which a new set of stocks or bonds will first be sold to the public
- Definition Memorandum Offering Explain A document that outlines the terms of securities to be offered in a private placement
- Definition Scale Offering Explain The range of prices offered by the underwriter of a serial bond issue with different maturities
- Definition Offerings Explain Often refers to initial public offerings. When a firm goes public and makes an offering of stock to the market
- Definition Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) Explain An agency of the U.S. Treasury department responsible for the U.S. savings and loan industry
- Definition Statement Official Explain A statement published by an issuer of a new municipal security describing itself and the issue
- Definition Transfers Unrequited Official Explain military aid, voluntary cancellation of debt, contributions to international organizations, indemnities imposed under peace treaties
- Definition Offset Explain Elimination of a long or short position by making an opposite transaction. Related: Liquidation
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