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.
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.
The Accumulation/Distribution Line (A/D) measures the supply and demand of an asset or security by looking at where price closed in a period range and then multiplying that by volume.
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner is a computerized device or hardware that uses an ASIC solely to mine bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.
An asset swap is used to convert cash flow characteristics in order to hedge risks from one financial instrument with undesirable cash flow characteristics to another with favorable cash flow characteristics.
A holding bag is a slang term for an investor who holds on to a badly performing investment, hoping it will bounce back when there is a chance it won’t.
Boundary conditions were used to establish the minimum and maximum possible values of call and put options prior to the introduction of binomial tree and Black-Scholes pricing models.