PERFORMANCE DRAG
A term that refers to the negative effect of transaction costs on the investment performance. It is most typically attributed to brokerage commissions, but there are many factors like bid-ask spreads, timing, and other opportunity costs that may cause the return of an investment to lag behind the return seen in the market.
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Highly Leveraged Transaction - HLT
HLT is a loan provided from a financial institution to a company that has a large debt amount already. The existing large amount of debt only means ...
Form 5
A document that must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by an insider who has conducted insider transactions during the yea ...
Countersignature
Additional signature from an official or professional on a document that has already been signed. Serving as confirmation or authentication, it is ...
Average Collection Period
The amount of time for a business to receive payments owed.
Primary Regulator
The state or federal agency with main supervisory responsibility for a financial institution. Banks and other financial institutions will have to f ...
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Principles of Trading: Charting
Where can you see market movements? Charts. Thanks to technology, traders can view as many market information as they can in one go. But not all ch ...
Principles of Trading: Automating Strategies
An automated trading system basically lets a computer to do the work of a trader by setting certain rules for entering and exiting trades. That com ...
Principles of Trading: Risk Management
It is imperative for traders to master risk management, which includes knowing how much you could lose per trade or over time and evaluating the pe ...
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