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Diagonal spread
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Diagonal spreadAn options strategy requiring a long and a short position in the same class of option at different strike prices and different expiration dates.
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Strategy
The general or specific approach to investing that an individual, institution, or fund manager employs.
Long
To have bought more of something than one has sold of it.
Short
One who has sold a contract to establish a market position and who has not yet closed out this position through an offsetting purchase; the opposite of a long position.
Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into.
Class
In the case of derivative products, options of the same type-put or call-with the same underlying security.
Option
The right but not the obligation to buy or sell a fixed quantity of a commodity, currency or security at a fixed price on or until a particular date.
Expiration
The time an option contract lapses.
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Diageo
Diageo is one of the world's largest corporations in the beverages and tobacco sector. Its head office is in Great Britain.
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Determinism
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.
Deterministic models
Liability-matching models that assume that the liability payments and the asset cash flows are known with certainty.
Detrend
To remove the general drift, tendency, or bent of a set of statistical data as related to time.
Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB)
Formerly the German financial futures and options market. Merged with the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX) in 1998 to form EUREX, the European derivatives exchange.
Devaluation
A decrease in the spot price of a currency. Often initiated by a government announcement.
Diagonal spread
Dialing for dollars
A term used to describe the practice of cold calling, but which has negative implications as it is frequently applied to salespeople selling speculative or fraudulent investments.
Diamonds
Units of interest in the diamonds trust, a unit investment trust that serves as an index to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in that its holdings consist of the 30 component stocks of the Dow.
Diff
Short version of Euro rate differential, which is a Chicago Mercantile Exchange Futures contract that is founded on the interest rate spread between the U.S. dollar and the British pound, the German mark, or the Japanese yen.
Difference check
The difference in interest payments that is paid to a swap counterparty to close out a deal.
Difference from S&P
A mutual fund's return minus the change in the Standard & Poor's 500 index for the same time period.
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Strategy
The general or specific approach to investing that an individual, institution, or fund manager employs.
Long
To have bought more of something than one has sold of it.
Short
One who has sold a contract to establish a market position and who has not yet closed out this position through an offsetting purchase; the opposite of a long position.
Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into.
Class
In the case of derivative products, options of the same type-put or call-with the same underlying security.
Option
The right but not the obligation to buy or sell a fixed quantity of a commodity, currency or security at a fixed price on or until a particular date.
Expiration
The time an option contract lapses.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Diageo
Diageo is one of the world's largest corporations in the beverages and tobacco sector. Its head office is in Great Britain.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Determinism
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.
Deterministic models
Liability-matching models that assume that the liability payments and the asset cash flows are known with certainty.
Detrend
To remove the general drift, tendency, or bent of a set of statistical data as related to time.
Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB)
Formerly the German financial futures and options market. Merged with the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX) in 1998 to form EUREX, the European derivatives exchange.
Devaluation
A decrease in the spot price of a currency. Often initiated by a government announcement.
Diagonal spread
Dialing for dollars
A term used to describe the practice of cold calling, but which has negative implications as it is frequently applied to salespeople selling speculative or fraudulent investments.
Diamonds
Units of interest in the diamonds trust, a unit investment trust that serves as an index to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in that its holdings consist of the 30 component stocks of the Dow.
Diff
Short version of Euro rate differential, which is a Chicago Mercantile Exchange Futures contract that is founded on the interest rate spread between the U.S. dollar and the British pound, the German mark, or the Japanese yen.
Difference check
The difference in interest payments that is paid to a swap counterparty to close out a deal.
Difference from S&P
A mutual fund's return minus the change in the Standard & Poor's 500 index for the same time period.
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