With respect to buying on margin, it is the money put up in a margin account to partially finance the...

Cash and marketable securities an investor deposits with a broker to guarantee that the former will honor or keep up...

The date on which a derivative instrument expires or becomes due for payment or settlement. It is also referred to...

The practice which is used to revalue a financial instrument, in general. In the context of derivatives, marking to market...

An exotic option whose payout (payoff) depends on the overall performance of more than one underlying asset, as opposed to a standard vanilla...

A variation on maximum and minimum options (best-of and worst-off options) which pays the Euclidian distance between the current price and the strike price of its...

A plain vanilla option in which the strike is determined as a percentage of the future/forward price. For instance, a 110% moneyness...

It stands for money-market derivative: a short-term interest rate derivative that is used in money market trading and hedging. Examples of money market derivatives...

A short-term interest rate derivative that is used in money market trading and hedging. Examples of money market derivatives include short-term interest rate futures and forward rate agreements (FRAs), short-dated...

An option that allows the holder to repeatedly exercise the right to receive greater or smaller amounts of the underlying. In...