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Trading unit
Trading unitThe number of shares of a particular security that is used as the acceptable quantity for trading on the exchanges. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Shares Certificates or book entries representing ownership in a corporation or similar entity. Security Piece of paper that proves ownership of stocks, bonds, and other investments. Trading Buying and selling securities. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- Trade To buy and sell; buying and selling. Trade acceptance Written demand that has been accepted by an industrial company to pay a given sum at a future date. Trade away Trade execution by another broker-dealer. Trade balance Overall result of a country's exports. Trade barriers Ways of restricting the amount of imports. Trade credit Credit one firm grants to another firm for the purchase of goods or services. Trade date The date that the counter parties in an interest rate swap commit to the swap. Also, the day on which a security or a commodity future trade actually takes place. Trade debt Accounts payable. Trade deficit or surplus The difference in the value of a nation's imports over exports (deficit) or exports over imports (surplus). Trade discount Price charged by manufactures to wholesalers, and wholesalers to retailers, obviously below the retail price. Trade draft A draft addressed to a commercial enterprise. Trade flat For convertibles, trade without accrued interest. Preferred stock always "trades flat," as do bonds on which interest is in default or is in doubt. Trade house A firm that deals in actual commodities. Trade lanes The direction of trade, e.g. US to Europe. Trade me out Work out of one's long position (usually created by committing firm principal to complete a trade block trade) by selling stock. Trade on the wire Immediately give a bid or offer to a salesperson without checking the floor conditions (listed), dealer depth (OTC) or customer interest. Trade on top of Trade at a narrow speed or no spread in basis points relative to some other bond yield, usually Treasury bonds. Trade reporting 1) In a trade between two registered Market Participants (MP), only the sell side reports the trade. 2) In a trade between two member firms, only the sell side reports the trade. 3) In a trade between a registered MP and a non-registered MP (Market Maker not registered in a particular stock, an ECN, etc.), the registered MP reports the trade as a buy or sell. 4) Trading can occur ONLY between two member firms; thus, a buy is never reported.) Trade surplus A nation's excess of exports over imports during a given time frame. Trade terms Conditions of payment, when goods have to be paid for, in what way, at what price, etc. Trade union or labor union Association of employees that negotiates with employers to improve its members' incomes and working conditions. Trade weight value of the dollar The value of the dollar pegged to, a market basket of selected foreign currencies. The Federal Reserve calculates a trade-weighted value of the dollar based on the weighted-average exchange value of the dollar against the currencies of 10 industrial countries. Trade-off An exchange between two variables, such as quick sales and long-term growth, or unemployment and inflation. TRADELINK TRADELINK is a securities company with code 00536 at Hong Kong stock. Board lot: 2,000. Trademark A distinctive name or symbol used to identify a product or company and build recognition. Trader Person or organization that earns money by buying goods, commodities, securities, etc. and selling them at a profit. TRADES & LABOR Credit Union TRADES & LABOR is a credit union with head office in ALBERT LEA, MN Trades by appointment A stock that is very difficult to trade to because of illiquidity. Trading Buying and selling securities. Trading ahead A New York Stock Exchange rule violation. Basically, in this situation the specialist puts their firm's interest ahead of the investor's interest. Trading authorization A document (power of attorney) a customer gives to a broker in order that the broker may buy and sell securities on behalf of the customer. Trading costs Costs of buying and selling marketable securities and borrowing. Trading costs include commissions, slippage, and the bid-ask spread. Trading desk (dealing desk) Personnel at an international bank who trade spot and forward foreign exchange. Trading dividends Maximizing a firm's revenues by purchasing stock in other firms in order to collect the maximum amount of dividends of which 70% is tax-free. Trading halt When trading of a stock, bond, option or futures contract is stopped by an exchange while news is being broadcast about the security. Trading limit The exchange imposed maximum daily price change that a futures contract or futures option contract can undergo. Trading paper CDs purchased by accounts that are likely to resell them. Trading pattern Long-range direction of a security or commodity futures price, charted by drawing one line connecting the highest prices the security has reached and another line connecting the lowest prices at which the security has traded over the same period. Trading posts The positions on the floor of a stock exchange where the specialists stand and securities are traded. Trading price The price at which a security is currently selling. Trading profit The profit earned on short-term trades of securities held for less than one year, subject to tax at normal income tax rates. Trading range The difference between the high and low prices traded during a period of time. For commodities, the high-low price limit an exchange establishes for a specific commodity for any one day's trading. Trading variation The increments to which securities prices are rounded up or rounded down. Trading volume The number of shares transacted every day. Traditional IRA A tax deferred individual retirement account that allows annual contributions of up to $2000 for each income earner. Traditional view (of dividend policy) An argument that, "within reason," investors prefer higher dividends to lower dividends because the dividend is sure but future capital gains are uncertain. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Trading pattern Long-range direction of a security or commodity futures price, charted by drawing one line connecting the highest prices the security has reached and another line connecting the lowest prices at which the security has traded over the same period. Trading posts The positions on the floor of a stock exchange where the specialists stand and securities are traded. Trading price The price at which a security is currently selling. Trading profit The profit earned on short-term trades of securities held for less than one year, subject to tax at normal income tax rates. Trading range The difference between the high and low prices traded during a period of time. For commodities, the high-low price limit an exchange establishes for a specific commodity for any one day's trading. Trading unit Trading variation The increments to which securities prices are rounded up or rounded down. Trading volume The number of shares transacted every day. Traditional IRA A tax deferred individual retirement account that allows annual contributions of up to $2000 for each income earner. Traditional view (of dividend policy) An argument that, "within reason," investors prefer higher dividends to lower dividends because the dividend is sure but future capital gains are uncertain. Trailing earnings Past earnings. Often used in the context of the price earnings ratio. This ratio is usually distinguished as price to trailing earnings (today's price divided by the most recent 12 months of earnings) versus price to prospective earnings (today's price divided by consensus forecast earnings for the next 12 months). We thank you for using the Financial Dictionary to search for Trading unit. If you have a better definition for Trading unit than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Trading unit may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Trading unit and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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