- Industry: Financial services
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The mean, calculated at any time over a past period of fixed length.
Industry:Financial services
A block placed against a security reported lost or stolen (an adverse claim), so it cannot be transferred.
Industry:Financial services
Temporarily cancel an order or indication in a stock, while unrepresented interest still exists. See: Back on the shelf, sidelines.
Industry:Financial services
Dealer: In a trade between two registered Market Participants (MP), only the sell side reports the trade. Auction: In a trade between two member firms, only the sell side reports the trade. Dealer: In a trade between a registered MP and a non-registered MP (Market Maker not registered in a particular stock, an ECN, etc.), the registered MP reports the trade as a buy or sell. Auction: Trading can occur ONLY between two member firms. (Thus, a buy is never reported.)
Industry:Financial services
Describes a project that is in the same risk class as the whole firm. That is, the project allows the firm to grow larger in the context of their current business rather than diversify into new businesses.
Industry:Financial services
An investment opportunity in which only two outcomes are possible.
Industry:Financial services
Guaranteed a specific price on the customer's working order while the dealer tries to obtain a better one. Stopped against one's self involves a customer order and a firm's own account, not two customers. One can cancel an order even after being stopped by another party.
Industry:Financial services
Execute a trade at a price that the trader feels is higher or more risky than would normally be acceptable, in order to gain market share in the institutional arena.
Industry:Financial services
A nation's excess of exports over imports during a given time frame.
Industry:Financial services
