The offer size is the amount of the security that investors are willing to purchase at the specified offer price.
The order size is indicated in lots on the board of 100 shares each. Thus, an order size of four corresponds to 400 shares.
Rate sizes are important because they reflect the demand and liquidity of the security.
Level 1 quotes will only display the bid size for the best available bid price. Level 2 quotes show the depth of the market across many layers of prices and offer sizes.
Risk acceptance or risk containment is a conscious strategy of recognizing the possibility of small or rare risks without taking measures to hedge, hedge or avoid these risks.
Arbitrageurs are investors who exploit market inefficiencies of any kind. They are necessary to ensure that inefficiencies between markets are smoothed out or kept to a minimum.
Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) are financial securities backed by income-producing assets such as credit card receivables, home equity loans, student loans, and auto loans.
Audit risk is the risk that the financial statements will be materially incorrect, even if the auditor’s report indicates that the financial statements do not contain any material misstatement.
A beneficial owner is a person who enjoys the benefits of ownership, despite the fact that the ownership of the property is registered in a different name.
The bid-ask spread is the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for an asset and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept.
The Bloomberg terminal, developed by businessman Michael Bloomberg, is a popular hardware and software system that allows investors to access real-time market data, investment analytics and their own trading platforms.