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SPOT

It stands for single payment options trading. A type of currency options trading in which an investor can choose whether...

Spot Price

The price at which a commodity or a financial instrument (a derivative) for immediate delivery is selling at a specific...

Slippage

With respect to futures, it is the difference between estimated transaction costs and the actual cost paid. Such unexpected costs...

Spot Deferred Contract

A forward contract that grants the seller the option to defer delivery to a specific date in the future rather...

Spot Starting Swap

A swap that comes into effect two business days from its trade date. The value date of a spot start...

Spot Delta

The sensitivity of an option's price (premium) to changes in the spot market. The spot delta tells how many units...

Short Wrangle

A wrangle, i.e., a complex ratio spread in which a short position is taken in the two ratio spreads in...

Swap Warehousing

A practice whereby an intermediary enters into one side of the swap transaction, such as a fixed rate payer (or...

Short Albatross

A complex and versatile option trading strategy (basically an albatross spread) which involves selling one deep in-the-money option, buying one...

Synthetic CDO

A credit derivative (originally a collateralized debt obligation) whereby the credit risk on a reference portfolio is transferred between the...