trading profit
101insider trading — noun Date: 1966 the illegal use of information available only to insiders in order to make a profit in financial trading …
102proprietary trading — noun Trading activity conducted by a securities firm for its own profit rather than for its clients …
103Proprietary Trading — When a firm trades for direct gain instead of commission dollars. Essentially, the firm has decided to profit from the market rather than from commissions from processing trades. Firms that engage in proprietary trading believe that they have a… …
104commodity trading adviser — A person who, for compensation or profit, directly or indirectly advises others as to the value or the advisability of buying or selling futures contracts or commodity options. advising indirectly includes exercising trading authority over a… …
105basis trading — is the simultaneous entry into both a cash position for a particular product and an equal and opposite futures position on the same underlying. A basis trader looks to profit from a change in the relationship between the cash price and the future …
106Commodity Trading Advisors — ( CTAs) A CTA is anyone who, for compensation or for profit, exercises trading authority over a customers account or gives advice on the advisability of buying or selling futures and/or options, whether it be directly or through written… …
107day trading — day .trading n [U] the activity of using a computer to buy and sell ↑shares on the Internet, often buying and selling very quickly to make a profit out of small price changes >day trader n …
108insider trading — in.sider trading also in.sider dealing n [U] the crime of using secret information that you have about a company or knowledge of a situation to buy or sell ↑shares at a profit …
109day trading — noun uncount the activity of buying SHARES and selling them for a profit later in the same day ╾ ,day trader noun count …
110gross profit percentage — gross margin ratio A ratio of financial performance calculated by expressing the gross profit as a percentage of sales. With retailing companies in particular, it is regarded as a prime measure of their trading success. The only ways in which a… …
