FICTITIOUS TRADE
A trade that is booked with an execution date far in the future, and is adjusted to include the correct settlement and trade date when the transaction is completed. A fictitious trade is used in the processing of a securities transaction as a form of placeholder, and is found when open dates or rates are being used.
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Marketweight
A credit rating system assigned to fixed income assets. The rating system gives a subjective estimate of the present credit card’s accuracy a ...
Authorized Forex Dealer
Financial institution that has an authorization from authority to be a dealer of foreign money.
Price-Weighted Index
A stock index where each stock influences the index in proportion to its price per share. The index value is generated by adding the prices of each ...
New Fund Offer - NFO
This is a security offering where investors may buy units of a closed-end mutual fund. A new fund offer occurs when a mutual fund is launched, allo ...
Harmonic Average
Also referred to as harmonic mean, the mean of a set of positive variables. Calculated by dividing the number of observations by the reciprocal of ...
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