Meaning SELLING SHORT AGAINST THE BOX: Selling short stock that is actually owned by the seller but held in the box, meaning it is held in safekeeping. The seller borrows securities needed to cover as the stock in the box may be inaccessible, or the seller may not wish to disclose ownership
More terms such as Selling short against the box in Dictionary S.
- Definition Split-Coupon Bond:
- Examples A bond that begins as a zero-coupon bond paying no interest and converts to an interest paying bond on a future date selling short against the box definition.
- Definition Selling On The Good News:
- Examples A strategy of selling stock shortly after a company announces good news and the stock price rises. Investors believe that the price is as high as it can go and is on the brink of going down selling short against the box explain.
- Definition Spread Strategy:
- Examples A strategy that involves a position in one or more options so that the cost of buying an option is funded entirely or in part by selling another option in the same underlying. Also called spreading selling short against the box what is.
- Definition Security Ratings:
- Examples Commercial rating agencies' assessment of the credit and investment risk of securities selling short against the box meaning.
- Definition Secondary Mortgage Market:
- Examples Buying and selling existing mortgage loans, which are often pooled and traded as mortgage-backed securities selling short against the box abbreviation.
