Tick size - the minimum change in the price increment of a trading instrument.
– Tick sizes used to be in fractions (e.g. 1/16th of $1), but today they are mostly decimal based and expressed in cents.
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.
Forward interest rate agreements (FRAs) are over-the-counter contracts between parties that specify an interest rate to be paid on an agreed date in the future.
A holding company depositary receipt (HOLDR) was a diversified investment product offered by Merrill Lynch that gave investors access to multiple shares in a particular industry or sector through a single holding.
A horizontal spread is a simultaneous long and short position in derivatives for the same underlying asset and strike price, but with different expiration dates.
Interest rate swaps are forward contracts in which one stream of future interest payments is exchanged for another based on a specified principal amount.
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.
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner is a computerized device or hardware that uses an ASIC solely to mine bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.
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.