摘要: A guarantee found in structured investment products that provides a minimum payoff at maturity. A globally floored contract will protect the investor or minimize his loss in case the underlying invest[阅读全文:]
摘要: A type of options spread in which a trader holds more short positions than long positions. This type of spread has unlimited risk of loss while also limiting profit potential. This type of trade is of[阅读全文:]
摘要: The amount of time that an investor believes is left until it would no longer be beneficial to exercise an option early, or the likelihood that an American-style option will be used before it expires.[阅读全文:]
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摘要: A good or asset's interchangeability with other individual goods/assets of the same type. Assets possessing this property simplify the exchange/trade process, as interchangeability assumes that every[阅读全文:]
摘要: Mainly pertaining to options and futures, this is the options or futures contract that has the most distant deliverly month or expiration.
This is also known as the "back month".
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A tax form distributed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and used to report gains and losses from straddles or financial contracts. Section 1256 contracts include regulated futures contracts, f[阅读全文:]
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A technique for calculating termination payments on a prematurely ended swap. Termination payments are used to compensate the party who did not cause the swap to end early for its financial loss. B[阅读全文:]
摘要: The advance purchase of a put or call option with a strike price that will be determined at a later date, typically when the option becomes active. A forward start option becomes active at a specified[阅读全文:]
摘要: A swap agreement created through the synthesis of two swaps differing in duration for the purpose of fulfilling the specific time-frame needs of an investor. Also referred to as a "forward start swap[阅读全文:]