Stock Exchange Jargon


Stock Exchange Jargon

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Call

Fancy Way to Say: Contract to buy A call is an option contract which gives the holder the right to buy at a predetermined price before a stated expiration date.

Chinese Wall

Fancy Way to Say: Separation Used to describe procedures enforced within a securities firm that separate the firm's departments to restrict access to non-public, material information, in order to avoid the illegal use of inside information. For example, information from the analysis or investment banking divisions of a firm are not shared with the trading or brokerage departments as advanced notice of material non-public information could be used to gain an unfair advantage.

Churning

Fancy Way to Say: Overtrading Excessive trading in an account can lead to commissions which will not be offset by any gains realized. Too much buying and selling, in other words a lack of selectivity, lead to excessive transaction costs.

Computerized Buy/Sell Program

Fancy Way to Say: Program Trading Large instituions have models which determine when stocks are undervalued or overvalued. This is done continually on an intraday basis. When stocks are undervalued, they are purchased. When overvalued, the are sold. This is done with a large basket of stocks, usually the S&P500. The idea of over/undervalued is based upon the difference in value between the cash index and the futures. When stocks are below fair value they are undervalued and when they are above fair value they are overvalued.

Crap.com

Fancy Way to Say: Pe Celera Corp. Nickname for PE Celera based on the following inputs: CRA comes from its ticker symbol P comes from being sh*t on so many times by the specialist that crap is quite fitting .COM comes from the genome plays being the dot coms of late 1999-early 2000

Crossed Market

Fancy Way to Say: The quote is out of whack When market conditions become rapid and frenzied there will be times when a buyer will bid higher than the current best ask of a seller will offer below the current best bid. On the Nasdaq this becomes a crossed market as the bid is greater than the ask.