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BuyTo purchase an asset; taking a long position.
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Purchase
Buy; be long; have an ownership position.
Asset
Is the taxable basis of a property, imposed by the municipality. Often it is at a fraction of the market value.
Long
To have bought more of something than one has sold of it.
Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into.
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Business segment reporting
Reporting the results of the separate divisions or subsidiaries of a business.
Business trust
In the Caribbean, including the UK-dependent territories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Bust up takeover
A leveraged buyout in which the buyer sells off the assets of the target company to repay the debt that financed the takeover.
Butterfly option spread
Is an options strategy which uses three strike prices for the same instrument and same expiration date.
Butterfly trade
Is the sale of two units of a futures contract and the purchase of two units of a futures contract.
Buy
Buy and hold strategy
A passive investment strategy with no active buying and selling of stocks from the time the portfolio is created until the end of the investment horizon.
Buy and write strategy
An options strategy that calls for the purchase of stocks and the writing of covered call options on them.
Buy in
To cover, offset, or close out a short position.
Buy limit order
A conditional trading order that indicates a security may be purchased only at the designated price or lower.
Buy minus order
In the context of general equities, rare market or limit order to buy a stated amount of a stock, provided that the price to be obtained is not higher than the last sale if the last sale is a minus or zero-minus tick, and is not higher than the last sale minus the minimum fractional change in the stock if the last sale is a plus or zero-plus tick.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Purchase
Buy; be long; have an ownership position.
Asset
Is the taxable basis of a property, imposed by the municipality. Often it is at a fraction of the market value.
Long
To have bought more of something than one has sold of it.
Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Business segment reporting
Reporting the results of the separate divisions or subsidiaries of a business.
Business trust
In the Caribbean, including the UK-dependent territories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Bust up takeover
A leveraged buyout in which the buyer sells off the assets of the target company to repay the debt that financed the takeover.
Butterfly option spread
Is an options strategy which uses three strike prices for the same instrument and same expiration date.
Butterfly trade
Is the sale of two units of a futures contract and the purchase of two units of a futures contract.
Buy
Buy and hold strategy
A passive investment strategy with no active buying and selling of stocks from the time the portfolio is created until the end of the investment horizon.
Buy and write strategy
An options strategy that calls for the purchase of stocks and the writing of covered call options on them.
Buy in
To cover, offset, or close out a short position.
Buy limit order
A conditional trading order that indicates a security may be purchased only at the designated price or lower.
Buy minus order
In the context of general equities, rare market or limit order to buy a stated amount of a stock, provided that the price to be obtained is not higher than the last sale if the last sale is a minus or zero-minus tick, and is not higher than the last sale minus the minimum fractional change in the stock if the last sale is a plus or zero-plus tick.
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