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A financial contract whose value is based on, or "derived" from, a traditional security (such as a stock or bond), an asset (such as a commodity), or a market index.
Industry:Financial services
Contracts such as options and futures whose price is derived from the price of an underlying financial asset.
Industry:Financial services
A financial security such as an option or future whose value is derived in part from the value and characteristics of another security, the underlying asset.
Industry:Financial services
A chart pattern which in which each successive peak in a security's price is lower than the preceding peak over a period of time. Antithesis of ascending tops.
Industry:Financial services
A variable describing assets, used as an element of a risk index. For example, a volatility risk index, distinguishing high volatility assets from low volatility assets, could consist of several descriptors based on short term volatility, long term volatility, systematic and residual volatility, etc.
Industry:Financial services
The New York Federal Reserve Bank's trading desk (or securities department) where all transactions of the Federal Reserve System are executed in the money market or the government securities market.
Industry:Financial services
A warrant entitles the holder to buy a given number of shares of stock at a stipulated price. A detachable warrant is one that may be sold separately from the package it may have originally been issued with (usually a bond).
Industry:Financial services
Fully ordained in advance. A deterministic chaos system is one that gives random looking results, even though the results are generated from a system of equations.
Industry:Financial services
Liability-matching models that assume that the liability payments and the asset cash flows are known with certainty. Related: Stochastic models.
Industry:Financial services
