摘要: The creation of new and improved financial products through innovative design or repackaging of existing financial instruments.
Financial engineers use various mathematical tools in order to cre[阅读全文:]
摘要: An option, generally written by a clearing house, whose expiration date, strike price, and exercising style can be modified.
A flex option provides flexibility as it can be tailored to m[阅读全文:]
摘要: A type of option that gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to purchase or sell an interest rate floor at a specific price during a predetermined period of time. A floortion combines the[阅读全文:]
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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 risk-mitigating investment strategy that utilizes options to limit the possible range of returns. To employ a fence, the investor purchases a security (a long position), a long put with a strike [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: A practice where option holders fraudulently claim to have exercised their call options at a specific time in the past, where in reality, the options were exercised much later. Exercise backdating is [阅读全文:]
摘要: A restriction on the amount of option contracts of a single class that any one person or company can exercise within a fixed time period (usually a period of five business days). This limit is in plac[阅读全文:]
摘要: The price at which the underlying security can be purchased (call option) or sold (put option). The exercise price is determined at the time the option contract is formed.
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摘要: An embedded option within a project that allows the firm abort their operations at little or no cost. An exit option can typically only be exercised after key developments have occurred within the pro[阅读全文:]