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Second Generation Option

A breed of options that bear non-standard features/ elements, as opposed to vanilla options (plain vanilla options). These features/ elements...

Put Volatility Trade

A volatility strategy (volatility trade) which combines futures and options and is constructed by buying a put option (long put)...

Volatility

A measure of fluctuation in the price movement of an asset (usually, a tradable asset such as a stock) over...

Margin Call

A call (i.e., request) which is issued by a broker demanding a customer (whether a short seller or a party...

Margin Requirements

The amount of cash or marginable securities (e.g., treasuries, blue chip stocks) that a holder of a futures or options...

Vomma

An option sensitivity measure (a second-order greek) that captures the second order sensitivity of an option to the volatility of...

2nd Order Greeks

A second-order Greek is a second-order derivative of the option value with respect to some variable. Equivalently, it is the...

Second Order Greeks

A second-order Greek is a second-order derivative of the option value with respect to some variable. Equivalently, it is the...

Fat Tail Event

An event of significant magnitude that takes place or is observed at the end-or tail- of a bell curve- i.e.,...

Alpha

A risk measure for options which is computed by relating an option's theta to its gamma: Alpha = decay/ gamma...