Options Terms

  1. Netfile

  2. Neutral

  3. New York Board Of Trade - NYBOT

  4. New York Futures Exchange - NYFE

  5. New York Mercantile Exchange - NYMEX

  6. NFA Compliance Rule 2-43b

  7. Nick Leeson

  8. Night Cycle

  9. No Dealing Desk

  10. Nominal Quotation

  11. Non-Deliverable Forward - NDF

  12. Non-Equity Option

  13. Non-Member Trader

  14. Non-Open Market

  15. Non-Qualified Stock Option - NSO

  16. Noncallable

  17. Noncommercial Trader

  18. Nonfinancial Asset

  19. Noon Average Rate Contract - NARC

  20. Normal Profit

  21. North Sea Brent Crude

  22. Note Against Bond Spread - NOB

  23. Notional Value

  24. NYSE Amex Equities

  25. NYSE Arca

  26. OEX

  27. Offset

  28. Offsetting Transaction

  29. Oil ETF

  30. Omega

  31. Omnibus Account

  32. On Track

  33. One-Touch Option

  34. Online Trading

  35. OPEC Basket

  36. Open

  37. Open Interest

  38. Open Outcry

  39. Opening Transaction

  40. Operational Efficiency

  41. Option

  42. Option Adjusted Spread - OAS

  43. Option Agreement

  44. Option Chain

  45. Option Class

  46. Option Cycle

  47. Option Disclosure Document

  48. Option Income Fund

  49. Option Margin

  50. Option Premium

  51. Option Pricing Theory

  52. Option Schedule

  53. Option Series

  54. Optionable Stock

  55. Options Backdating

  56. Options Clearing Corporation - OCC

  57. Options Contract

  58. Options Industry Council - OIC

  59. Options On Futures

  60. Options Price Reporting Authority - OPRA

  61. Order Book Official

  62. OTC Options

  63. Out Of The Money - OTM

  64. Outperformance Option

  65. Outright Futures Position

  66. Outright Option

  67. Over-Hedging

  68. Overhang

  69. Overnight Index Swap

  70. Overwrite

  71. Overwriting

  72. Pacific Exchange - PCX

  73. Palladium

  74. Paper Profit (Paper Loss)

  75. Parity Price

  76. Participatory Notes

  77. Path Dependent Option

  78. Pay/Collect

  79. Payment Option ARM

  80. Pegging

  81. Perfect Hedge

  82. Performance Shares

  83. Period Certain

  84. Periodic Interest Rate

  85. Perpetual Option - XPO

  86. Perpetual Preferred Stock

  87. Philadelphia Semiconductor Index - SOX

  88. Philadelphia Stock Exchange - PHLX

  89. Phoenix Dollars

  90. Physical Delivery

  91. Physical Option

  92. Piggyback Warrants

  93. Pin Risk

  94. Pinning the Strike

  95. Pit

  96. Plain Vanilla

  97. Plan Sponsor

  98. Platinum

  99. Point Balance

  100. Points

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