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A mutual fund investing only in government obligations within a single state, with state tax-free dividends, but taxed capital gains.
Industry:Financial services
An attractor in phase space, where the points never repeat themselves, and orbits never intersect, but they stay within the same region of phase space. Unlike limit cycles or point attractors, strange attractors are non-periodic, and generally have a fractal dimension. They are a picture of a non-linear, chaotic system. See: Attractor, Chaos, Limit Cycle, Point Attractor.
Industry:Financial services
(1) Service that reports prices and sizes of transactions on major exchanges-ticker tape. (2) Dow Jones and other news wires. See: Consolidated tape.
Industry:Financial services
Long-range direction of a security or commodity futures price, charted by drawing one line connecting the highest prices the security has reached and another line connecting the lowest prices at which the security has traded over the same period. See: Technical analysis.
Industry:Financial services
To analyze various stocks in search of stocks that meet predetermined criteria. For example, a simple value screen would sort all stocks by their price-to-book ratio and pick the stocks with the lowest ratios as candidates for the value portfolio.
Industry:Financial services
A bond with interest and principal payments coming from the proceeds of a sinking fund.
Industry:Financial services
Buying or selling an out-of-the-money put option and call option on the same underlying instrument, with the same expiration. Profits are made only if there is a drastic change in the underlying instrument's price.
Industry:Financial services
When the trading volume is so heavy that trades appear on the tape more than a minute behind the timer they actually take place.
Industry:Financial services
The positions on the floor of a stock exchange where the specialists stand and securities are traded.
Industry:Financial services
A temporary document that represents a portion of a share of stock, often issued after a stock split or spin-off.
Industry:Financial services
