Securities Fraud Glossary
Securities Fraud Resources
- Abandon
- Accommodation Trading
- Actuals
- Agency Bond
- Agency Note
- Aggregation
- Agricultural Trade Option Merchant
- Allowances
- American Option
- Approved Delivery Facility
- Arbitrage
- Arbitration
- Artificial Price
- Asian Option
- Assignable Contract
- Assignment
- Associated Person
- At The Market
- At The Money
- Auction Rate Security
- Audit Trail
- Automatic Exercise
- Back Months
- Back Office
- Back Pricing
- Back Spread
- Backwardation
- Bankers Acceptance
- Basis Grade
- Basis Point
- Basis Quote
- Basis Risk
- Basis Swap
- Basis
- Bear Market Rally
- Bear Market
- Bear Spread
- Bear Vertical Spread
- Bear
- Beta Coefficient
- Bid
- Black-Scholes Model
- Blackboard Trading
- Block Trade
- Board of Trade
- Board Order
- Boiler Room
- Book Transfer
- Booking The Basis
- Box Spread
- Break
- Broad Based Security Index
- Broker Association
- Broker
- Bucket Shop
- Bucketing
- Bull Market
- Bull Spread
- Bull Vertical Spread
- Bull
- Bullion
- Bunched Order
- Buoyant
- Butterfly Spread
- Buy or Sell on Close
- Buy or Sell on Opening
- Buyer
- Buyers Call
- Buyers Market
- Buying Hedge
- C And F
- Calendar Spread
- Call Around Market
- Call Cotton
- Call Rule
- Call
- Called
- Capping
- Carrying Broker
- Carrying Charges
- Cash Commodity
- Cash Forward Sale
- Cash Market
- Cash Price
- Cash Settlement
- CCC
- CD
- CEA
- Certificate of Deposit
- Certificated or Certified Stocks
- CFO
- CFTC
- Changer
- Charting
- Chartist
- Cheapest To Deliver
- Chooser Option
- Churning
- CIF
- Circuit Breakers
- Class of Options
- Clearing Association
- Clearing House
- Clearing Member
- Clearing Organization
- Clearing Price
- Clearing
- Close
- Closing Out
- Closing Price or Range
- Combination
- Commercial Grain Stocks
- Commercial Paper
- Commercial
- Commission
- Commitments of Traders Report
- Commitments
- Commodity Credit Corporation
- Commodity Exchange Act
- Commodity Exchange Authority
- Commodity Exchange Commission
- Commodity Futures Modernization Act
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
- Commodity Linked Bond
- Commodity Option
- Commodity Pool Operator (CPO)
- Commodity Pool
- Commodity Price Index
- Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA)
- Commodity
- Confirmation Statement
- Congestion
- Consignment
- Contango
- Contract Grades
- Contract Market
- Contract Month
- Contract Size
- Contract Unit
- Contract
- Controlled Account
- Convergence
- Conversion Factor
- Conversion
- Core Principle
- Corn Hog Ratio
- Corner
- Correction
- Cost of Tender
- COT
- Counter Trend Trading
- Counterparty Risk
- Counterparty
- Coupon Rate
- Cover
- Covered Option
- Cox Ross Rubinstein Option Pricing-model
- CPO
- Crack Spread
- Credit Default Option
- Credit Default Swap
- Credit Derivative
- Credit Event
- Credit Rating
- Credit Spread Option
- Credit Spread
- Credit Swap
- Crop Year
- Cross Hedge
- Cross Margining
- Cross Rate
- Cross Trading
- Crush Spread
- CTA
- Curb Trading
- Currency Swap
- Current Delivery Month
- Customer Type Indicator (CTI) Codes
- Daily Price Limit
- Day Ahead
- Day Order
- Day Trader
- Dcm
- Dealer
- Deck
- Declaration Date
- Declaration of Options
- Default Option
- Default
- Deferred Futures
- Deliverable Grades
- Deliverable Stocks
- Deliverable Supply
- Delivery Current
- Delivery Date
- Delivery Instrument
- Delivery Month
- Delivery Nearby
- Delivery Notice
- Delivery Option
- Delivery Point
- Delivery Price
- Delivery
- Delta Margining
- Delta Neutral
- Delta
- Deposit
- Depository Receipt
- Derivative
- Derivatives Clearing Organization
- Derivatives Transaction Execution Facility (DTEF)
- Designated Contract Market
- Designated Self Regulatory Organization
- Diagonal Spread
- Differentials
- Directional Trading
- Disclosure Document
- Discount
- Discretionary Account
- Disregard Tape
- Distant or Deferred Months
- Dominant Future
- Double Hedging
- DSRO
- DTEF
- Dual Trading
- Duration
- Dutch Auction
- E-Local
- E-Mini
- Ease Off
- ECN
- Economically Deliverable Supply
- Efficient Market
- EFP
- Electronic Trading Facility
- Eligible Commercial Entity
- Eligible Contract Participant
- Elliot Wave
- Emergency
- Enumerated Agricultural Commodities
- Equity
- Euro
- Eurocurrency
- Eurodollars
- European Option
- Even Lot
- Ex-Pit
- Exchange For Physicals (EFP)
- Exchange of Futures For Cash
- Exchange of Futures For Swaps (EFS)
- Exchange Rate
- Exchange Risk Factor
- Exchange
- Excluded Commodity
- Exempt Board of Trade
- Exempt Commercial Market
- Exempt Commodity
- Exempt Foreign Firm
- Exercise Price
- Exercise
- Exotic Options
- Expiration Date
- Extrinsic Value
- Fannie Mae
- Fast Market
- Feed Ratio
- FIA
- Fibonacci Numbers
- Fictitious Trading
- Fill or Kill Order (FOK)
- Fill
- Financial Instruments
- Financial Settlement Price
- Financial Settlement
- First Notice Day
- Five Against Bond (FAB) Spread
- Five Against Note (FAN) Spread
- Fix
- Fixed Income Security
- Floor Broker
- Floor Trader
- Force Majeure
- Forced Liquidation
- Foreign Exchange
- Forex
- Forward Contract
- Forward Market
- Forward Months
- Forwardation
- Freddie Mac
- Free On Board (FOB)
- Front Month
- Front Running
- Front Spread
- Fully Carrying Charge
- Fund of Funds
- Fundamental Analysis
- Fungibility
- Futures Commission Merchant (FCM)
- Futures Contract
- Futures Equivalent
- Futures Industry Association (FIA)
- Futures Option
- Futures Price
- Futures
- Gamma
- Ginzy Trading
- Give Up
- Gold Certificate
- Gold Fixing
- Gold Silver Ratio
- Good This Week Order
- Good Till Canceled Order (GTC)
- GPM
- Grades
- Grading Certificates
- Grain Futures Act
- Grantor
- Gross Processing Margin (GPM)
- GTC
- GTW
- Guaranteed Introducing Broker
- Haircut
- Hand Held Terminal
- Hardening
- Head And Shoulders
- Heavy
- Hedge Exemption
- Hedge Fund
- Hedge Ratio
- Hedging
- Henry Hub
- Historical Volatility
- Hog Corn Ratio
- Horizontal Spread
- Hybrid Instruments
- Ib
- Implied Repo Rate
- Implied Volatility
- In Position
- In Sight
- In The Money
- Index Arbitrage
- Indirect Bucketing
- Initial Deposit
- Initial Margin
- Instrument
- Intercommodity Spread
- Interdelivery Spread
- Interest Rate Futures
- Interest Rate Swap
- Intermarket Spread
- Intermediary
- International Swaps And Derivatives Association (ISDA)
- Intracommodity Spread
- Intrinsic Value
- Introducing Broker
- Inverted Market
- Invisible Supply
- Invoice Price
- ISDA
- Job Lot
- Kerb Trading or Dealing
- Large Order Execution (LOX) Procedures
- Large Traders
- Last Notice Day
- Last Trading Day
- Leaps
- Leverage
- LIBOR
- Licensed Warehouse
- Life of Contract
- Limit Move
- Limit Only
- Limit Order
- Limit Up or Down
- Liquid Market
- Liquidation
- Local
- Location
- Locked In
- Locked Limit
- London Gold Market
- Long Hedge
- Long The Basis
- Long
- Lookalike Option
- Lookalike Swap
- Lookback Option
- Lot
- Macro Fund
- Maintenance Margin
- Managed Account
- Manipulation
- Many To Many
- Margin Call
- Margin
- Mark To Market
- Market If Touched (MIT) Order
- Market Maker
- Market On Close
- Market On Opening
- Market Order
- Maturity
- Maximum Price Fluctuation
- Member Rate
- Mini
- Minimum Price Contract
- Minimum Price Fluctuation
- Minimum Tick
- Mob Spread
- Momentum
- Money Market
- Multilateral Clearing Organization
- Naked Option
- Narrow Based Security Index
- National Futures Association (NFA)
- Nearby Delivery Month
- Nearbys
- Negative Carry
- Net Asset Value
- Net Position
- Next Day
- NFA
- Nominal Price
- Non-Member Traders
- Note Against Bond (NOB) Spread
- Notice Day
- Notice of Intent To Deliver
- Notional Principal
- NYMEX Lookalike
- NYMEX Swap
- OCO
- Off Exchange
- Offer
- Offset
- Omnibus Account
- One Cancels The Other (OCO) Order
- One To Many
- Open Interest
- Open Order
- Open Outcry
- Open Trade Equity
- Opening Price or Range
- Opening
- Option Buyer
- Option Pricing Model
- Option Writer
- Option
- Original Margin
- OTC
- Out of Position
- Out of They Money
- Out Trade
- Outright
- Over The Counter (OTC)
- Overbrought
- Overnight Trade
- Oversold
- P And S
- Paper Profit or Loss
- Par
- Path Dependent Option
- Pay Collect
- Pegged Price
- Pegging
- Perfomance Bond
- Pip
- Pit Brokers
- Pit
- Point And Figure
- Point Balance
- Ponzi Scheme
- Pork Bellies
- Portfolio Insurance
- Portfolio Margining
- Position Accountability
- Position Limit
- Position Trader
- Position
- Positive Carry
- Posted Price
- Prearranged Trading
- Premium
- Price Basing
- Price Discovery
- Price Movement List
- Primary Market
- Program Trading
- Prompt Date
- Prop Shop
- Proprietary Account
- Proprietary Trading Group
- Public
- Public Elevators
- Purchase And Sale Statement
- Put
- Pyramiding
- Qualified Eligible Person (QEP)
- Quick Order
- Quotation
- Rally
- Random Walk
- Range
- Ratio Hedge
- Ratio Spread
- Ratio Vertical Spread
- Reaction
- Recovery
- Reference Asset
- Regular Warehouse
- Replicating Portfolio
- Repo
- Reporting Level
- Resistance
- Resting Order
- Retail Customer
- Retender
- Retracement
- Reversal
- Reverse Conversion
- Reverse Crush Spread
- Riding The Yield Curve
- Ring
- Risk Factor
- Risk Reward Ratio
- Risked Based Managing
- Roll Over
- Round Lot
- Round Trip Trading
- Round Turn
- Rules
- Runners
- Sample Grade
- Scale Down or Up
- Scalper
- Seasonality Claims
- Seat
- Securities And Exchange Commission
- Security Deposit
- Security Future
- Security Futures Product
- Security
- Self Regulatory Organization (SRO)
- Sellers Call
- Sellers Market
- Sellers Option
- Selling Hedge
- Series of Options
- Settlement Price
- Settlement
- Shipping Certificate
- Shock Absorber
- Short Covering
- Short Hedge
- Short Selling
- Short Squeeze
- Short The Basis
- Short
- Single Stock Future
- Small Traders
- Soft
- Sold Out Market
- Span
- Spark Spread
- Specialist System
- Speculative Bubble
- Speculative Limit
- Speculative Position Limit
- Speculator
- Split Close
- Spot Commodity
- Spot Month
- Spot Price
- Spot
- Spread or Straddle
- Squeeze
- SRO
- Stop Close Only Order
- Stop Limit Order
- Stop Loss Order
- Stop Order
- Straddle
- Strangle
- Strategy Based Margining
- Street Book
- Strike Price
- Strips
- Strong Hands
- Support
- Swap
- Swaption
- Switch
- Synthetic Futures
- Systematic Risk
- Systemic Risk
- T-Bond
- Taker
- Technical Analysis
- Ted Spread
- Tender
- Tenderable Grades
- Terminal Elevator
- Terminal Market
- Tick
- Time Decay
- Time of Day Order
- Time Spread
- Time Value
- To Arrive Contract
- Total Return Swap
- Trade Option
- Trader
- Trading Ahead
- Trading Arcade
- Trading Facility
- Trading Floor
- Transaction
- Transfer Notice
- Transfer Trades
- Transferable Option or Contract
- Treasury Bills
- Treasury Bonds
- Treasury Notes
- Trend
- Trendline
- Unable
- Uncovered Option
- Underlying Commodity
- Variable Price List
- Variation Margin
- Vault Receipt
- Vega
- Vertical Spread
- Visible Supply
- Volatility Quote Trading
- Volatility Spread
- Volatility Trading
- Volatility
- Volume of Trade
- Warehouse Receipt
- Warrant or Warehouse Receipt For Metals
- Warrant
- Wash Sale
- Wash Trading
- Weak Hands
- Weather Derivative
- Wild Card Option
- Winter Wheat
- Writer
- Yield Curve
- Yield To Maturity
- Zero Coupon