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Call Iron Condor

An iron condor, generally, involves buying or selling four options at four different exercise prices. When an investor buys the calls…

Long Calendar Strangle

A calendar strangle that is designed to profit as the underlying is believed to stay stagnant over a specific period…

Current Asset

An asset that can be converted into cash or used to pay current liabilities within one year or during a…

Appreciation

The increase in the value of a financial or physical asset over its normal life-time or a specific period of…

Acceptance

A promise to pay which is made when the drawee of a time draft (bill of exchange) writes the word…

Reverse Istisna’a

An istisna’a contract in which one counterparty (the seller or the buyer) is also a counterparty to a previous istisna’a…

RIA

It stands for restricted investment account, which is an Islamic investment account which is subject to certain restrictions imposed by…

Mini VIX Futures

An index derivative product, initially launched in 2009, which represents a smaller than standard-sized futures contract that is priced at…

Monte Carlo Method

A sophisticated analytical method which was initially introduced to find solutions for random-behavior problems by calculating approximate probabilities of specific…

Reserve

An amount that is taken out of an Islamic bank’s income (mudaraba income, investment account holders’ income, etc) as a…