INDEX ARBITRAGE
Investment strategy designed to profit from discrepancies between the prices of actual and future contracts of the same stock index. This is done by either buying the stocks or the futures contracts and selling the other. There are times the investors can exploit market inefficiency to gain profit. But this opportunity disappears quickly once the other investors know and act on it.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
Technique of analyzing business decisions. It summarizes the benefits of a given situation or business-related action, and deducts the expenses att ...
Credit Criteria
Several financial standards set by a lender to evaluate a potential borrower’s creditworthiness. Lenders look at the individual’s asset ...
Portable Alpha
A strategy in which portfolio managers separate alpha from beta by investing in securities that differ from the market index from which their beta ...
Globally Floored Contract
Guarantee seen in structured investment instruments giving a minimum payoff at maturity. It guards the investors or minimize his loss if the invest ...
Publicly Traded Partnership - PTP
A business that is owned by 2 or more co-owners. It is regularly traded on an established securities market.
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Principles of Trading: Charting
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ECONOMIC CALENDAR
Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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02:30 | PMI Manufacturing | Dec | |
10:00 | KOF Economic Barometer | Dec | |
10:00 | CPI | Dec | |
16:45 | Chicago Purchasing Managers Index | Dec | |
17:00 | Pending Home Sales | Nov | |
03:30 | PMI Manufacturing | Dec | |
03:30 | Non-Manufacturing PMI | Dec | |
16:00 | House Price Index | Oct | |
03:45 | Markit Final Manufacturing PMI | Dec |