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Roll forward




Roll forward

To move to an option position with a later expiration date.

RELATED TERMS
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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.

Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into.

Expiration
The time an option contract lapses.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Roll down
To move to an option position with a lower exercise price.

Roll order
1) Dividend roll. 2) Replacement of a maturing position with an identical one in the new maturity. 3) Recognition of capital gain or loss while reestablishing the position at the risk of the market.

Roll over
To renew a loan when it matures, to delay paying it back.

Roll up
To move to an option position with a higher exercise price. In venture capital, refers to the venture capitalist forcing small firms to merge operations in order to reduce costs

Roll's Critique
That the CAPM holds by construction when performance is measured against a mean-variance efficient index; otherwise, it holds not at all. Attributable to Richard Roll in 1977.

Roll, Richard
Author of path-breaking work on asset pricing including the famous Roll critique. Finance professor at UCLA.

ROLLA Credit Union
ROLLA is a credit union with head office in ROLLA, MO

Rolling of futures
As financial futures have short-term maturities, often 3-9 months, before or at maturity, the future must be sold and a new future (for the same asset but with a new maturity) must be repurchased.

Rollover
Means that a loan is periodically repriced at an agreed spread over the appropriate, currently prevailing rate. Most term loans in the Euromarket are made on a rollover basis as to current LIBOR rate.

Rollover IRA
A traditional individual retirement account holding money from a qualified plan or 403(b) plan. These assets, as long as they are not mixed with other contributions, can later be rolled over to another qualified plan or 403(b) plan. Also known as a conduit IRA.

Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce is a major British company.

Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce is a top British corporation in the field of aerospace and defense, and its estimated market value is 8,60 million US dollars.



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Riskless transaction
A transaction that is guaranteed a profit, such as the arbitrage of a temporary differential between commodity prices in two different markets.

Risky asset
An asset whose future return is uncertain.

Road show
A promotional presentation by an issuer of securities to potential buyers about the desirable qualities of the investments.

Rocket scientist
An employee of an investment firm (often having a Ph.D. in physics or mathematics) that works on highly mathematic models of derivative pricing.

Roll down
To move to an option position with a lower exercise price.

Roll forward

Roll order
1) Dividend roll. 2) Replacement of a maturing position with an identical one in the new maturity. 3) Recognition of capital gain or loss while reestablishing the position at the risk of the market.

Roll over
To renew a loan when it matures, to delay paying it back.

Roll up
To move to an option position with a higher exercise price. In venture capital, refers to the venture capitalist forcing small firms to merge operations in order to reduce costs

Roll, Richard
Author of path-breaking work on asset pricing including the famous Roll critique. Finance professor at UCLA.

Rolling of futures
As financial futures have short-term maturities, often 3-9 months, before or at maturity, the future must be sold and a new future (for the same asset but with a new maturity) must be repurchased.

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