trading crowd
1crowd trading — Used for listed equity securities. Group of exchange members with a defined area of function tending to congregate around a trading post ( trading posts) pending execution of orders. Includes specialists, floor traders, odd lot dealers, and other …
2Inactive Bond Crowd — A group of exchange members who buys and sells bonds, that are infrequently traded. Limit orders placed by the inactive bond crowd, may take a longer period of time to fill, due to the absence of frequent trading. The opposite of inactive bond… …
3Free-Crowd System — A system of commodity trading in which floor members can make bids and offers simultaneously for personal or customer accounts, which is common in the U.S. The free crowd system allows for the possibility of transactions occurring at different… …
4Cabinet Crowd — Members of the NYSE that typically trade in inactive bonds. Also known as the inactive bond crowd or book crowd. The name cabinet crowd arises from the fact that these members will typically enter limit orders for transacting these bonds which… …
5Active Bond Crowd — The name given to members of the NYSE and their specific bond trading departments that are acknowledged as frequent traders in active bonds. The active bond crowd creates liquidity and can affect the price of bonds traded on the market because… …
6CANSLIM — is an acronym for an investment strategy based upon claimed common characteristics shared by best performing stocks. The investing mechanism and process CANSLIM is a growth stock investment strategy formulated from the study of the 500 best… …
7outside of you — Used for listed equity securities. Another order bidding for or offering stock at the same price that the trader has put on the floor himself, represented by another broker in the trading crowd. These orders may have different price limits… …
8Social studies of finance — is an interdisciplinary research area that combines perspectives from economic sociology, science and technology studies, international political economy, behavioral finance, cultural studies and/or economics in the study of financial markets.… …
9fill or kill order — ( FOK; FOK order) A trading order that is canceled unless executed within a designated time period. A market or limited price order that is to be executed in its entirety as soon as it is represented in the trading crowd, and, if not so executed …
10market order — An order to buy or sell a futures contract of a given delivery month to be filled at the best possible price and as soon as possible. Chicago Board of Trade glossary An order to buy or sell futures or futures options contracts as soon as possible …
