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Brokers (Order Types/Accounts/etc) Terms

  1. Leveraged Recapitalization

  2. Limit Order

  3. Limit Order Book

  4. Limit-On-Close Order

  5. Limit-On-Open Order

  6. Limited Discretionary Account

  7. Liquidation Margin

  8. Long Market Value

  9. Long-Term Debt To Capitalization Ratio

  10. Maintenance Margin

  11. Managed Forex Accounts

  12. Manual Execution

  13. Margin

  14. Margin Account

  15. Margin Call

  16. Margin Debt

  17. Margin Loan Availability

  18. Mark To Market - MTM

  19. Market If Touched - MIT

  20. Market Maker Spread

  21. Market On Close - MOC

  22. Market Order

  23. Market-With-Protection Order

  24. Matching Orders

  25. Maximum Leverage

  26. May Day

  27. Member Firm

  28. Micro Account

  29. Micro-Lot

  30. Mini Forex Account

  31. Mini-Lot

  32. Minimum Balance

  33. Minimum Deposit

  34. Minimum Guaranteed Fill Order- MGF

  35. Minimum Margin

  36. Minus Tick

  37. Mixed Lot

  38. National Best Bid and Offer - NBBO

  39. Negative Gearing

  40. Negative Obligation

  41. Net Debt To EBITDA Ratio

  42. No Dealing Desk

  43. No Quote

  44. Nominee

  45. Non-Client Order

  46. Non-Directed Order

  47. Non-Marginable Securities

  48. Non-Objecting Beneficial Owner - NOBO

  49. Not-Held Order

  50. Odd Lot

  51. Off-Floor Order

  52. One-Cancel-All Order

  53. One-Cancels-the-Other Order - OCO

  54. Open Order

  55. Open-Market Transaction

  56. Operating Leverage

  57. Option Margin

  58. Order

  59. Order Management System - OMS

  60. Order Splitting

  61. Outside Broker

  62. Overleveraged

  63. Paid-Up

  64. Pairing Off

  65. Partial Redemption

  66. Payment For Order Flow

  67. Pit

  68. Pork Chop

  69. Portfolio Margin

  70. Prime Of Prime - PoP

  71. Principal Orders

  72. Prop Shop

  73. Protective Stop

  74. Public Book (Of Orders)

  75. Pyramiding

  76. Qualified Professional Asset Manager - QPAM

  77. Qualified Special Representative Agreement - QSR

  78. Quote Stuffing

  79. Rainmaker

  80. Regulation T - Reg T

  81. Regulation U

  82. Remargining

  83. Research Note

  84. Reverse Leveraged Buyout

  85. Risk-Based Haircut

  86. Rolling Settlement

  87. Round Lot

  88. Same-Day Substitution

  89. Scale Order

  90. Seat

  91. Secondary Buyout

  92. Securities Lending

  93. Securities Transfer Association Medallion Program - STAMP

  94. Segregation

  95. Self-Dealing

  96. Sell Plus

  97. Selling Away

  98. Settlement Agent

  99. Settlement Price

  100. Short Market Value

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