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Brokers (Order Types/Accounts/etc) Terms

  1. 130-30 Strategy

  2. Above The Market

  3. Account Freeze

  4. Active Box

  5. Adjusted Debit Balance

  6. Advisory Management

  7. Aged Fail

  8. Agency Broker

  9. Agency Cross

  10. Aleatory Contract

  11. All Or None - AON

  12. Alternative Order

  13. Application Programming Interface - API

  14. Assign

  15. At Best

  16. At Limit

  17. At The Market

  18. At-Or-Better

  19. At-The-Close Order

  20. At-The-Opening-Order

  21. Authorized Forex Dealer

  22. Available Funds

  23. Average Balance

  24. Away From The Market

  25. Bagging the Street

  26. Balloon Option

  27. Basket Trade

  28. Below The Market

  29. Best Execution

  30. Bid

  31. Bid And Asked

  32. Bid Size

  33. Blind Brokering

  34. Block Order

  35. Block Trading Facility - BTF

  36. Blockage Discount

  37. Board Broker

  38. Board Broker System

  39. Board Lot

  40. Borrowed Capital

  41. Box-Top Order

  42. Bracketed Buy Order

  43. Bracketed Sell Order

  44. Broker

  45. Broker Association

  46. Broker Booth Support System - BBSS

  47. Broker's Call

  48. Broker-Dealer

  49. Broker-Reseller

  50. Brokerage Account

  51. Brokerage Company

  52. Brokered Deposit

  53. Brokered Market

  54. Bunching

  55. Burst Basket

  56. Bust-Up Takeover

  57. Busted Takeover

  58. Buy Limit Order

  59. Buy Minus

  60. Buy Stop Order

  61. Buy Stops Above

  62. Buy To Cover

  63. Buying On Margin

  64. Buying Power

  65. Buyout

  66. Cage

  67. Call Loan

  68. Call Loan Rate

  69. Call Money

  70. Call Money Rate

  71. Cambist

  72. Cancel Former Order - CFO

  73. Canceled Order

  74. Cancellation

  75. Capital Gearing

  76. Cash Transaction

  77. Cheap Money

  78. Clean Your Skirts

  79. Closed-Market Transaction

  80. Compliance Officer

  81. Conditional Order

  82. Contingency Order

  83. Contingent Order

  84. Continuous Trading

  85. Contra Broker

  86. Coverage Initiated

  87. Covered Stock (Coverage)

  88. Credit Balance

  89. Crest

  90. Cross

  91. Cross Margining

  92. Current Market Value - CMV

  93. Daily Average Revenue Trades - DARTs

  94. Dark Pool Liquidity

  95. Day Loan

  96. Day Order

  97. Deal Slip

  98. Dealer

  99. Dealing Desk

  100. Debit Balance

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