economic & investment terms

Intraday

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:00:55 PST

Another way of saying "within the day". Intraday price movements are particularly important to short-term traders looking to make many trades over the course of a single...

Protectionism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and...

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:52:54 PST

The fact that trade protection hurts the economy of the country that imposes it is one of the oldest but still most startling insights economics has to offer. The idea...

Protectionism

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:51:46 PST

Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between nations, through methods such as high tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas, a variety of...

Quadruple Witching

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:20:31 PST

A day on which contracts for stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures (SSF) all expire. Investopedia Says: This is similar to the...

Fiduciary

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:00:15 PST

Dollar-Cost Averaging - DCA

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:10:58 PST

The technique of buying a fixed dollar amount of a particular investment on a regular schedule, regardless of the share price. More shares are purchased when prices are...

Option

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:37:24 PDT

An option is a contract, or a provision of a contract, that gives one party (the option holder) the right, but not the obligation, to perform a specified transaction with...

Call option

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:36:25 PDT

A graphical interpretation of the payoffs and profits generated by a call' option as seen by the writer of the option. Profit is maximized when the option expires...

What are Credit Derivatives?

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:35:34 PDT

If the underlying assets are mortgages or loans, there are usually two separate waterfalls because the principal and interest receipts can be easily allocated and...

An Alternative Covered Call Options Trading Strategy

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:32:19 PDT

Also, the potential rate of return is higher than it might appear at first blush. This is because the cost basis is much lower due to the collection of $1,480 in option...

Baltic Dry Index

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:11:31 PDT

The Baltic Dry Index is an index covering dry bulk shipping rates and managed by the Baltic Exchange in London. According to Baltic Exchange, the index provides:

List of stock exchanges

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:25:36 PDT

This is a list of stock exchanges. Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts are listed both here and the List of...