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Options Terms

  1. Near The Money

  2. Nearby Month

  3. Negative Butterfly

  4. Negative Carry

  5. Net Option Premium

  6. Netback

  7. Netfile

  8. Neutral

  9. New York Board Of Trade - NYBOT

  10. New York Futures Exchange - NYFE

  11. New York Mercantile Exchange - NYMEX

  12. NFA Compliance Rule 2-43b

  13. Nick Leeson

  14. Night Cycle

  15. No Dealing Desk

  16. Nominal Quotation

  17. Non-Deliverable Forward - NDF

  18. Non-Equity Option

  19. Non-Member Trader

  20. Non-Open Market

  21. Non-Qualified Stock Option - NSO

  22. Noncallable

  23. Noncommercial Trader

  24. Nonfinancial Asset

  25. Noon Average Rate Contract - NARC

  26. Normal Profit

  27. North Sea Brent Crude

  28. Note Against Bond Spread - NOB

  29. Notional Value

  30. NYSE Amex Equities

  31. NYSE Arca

  32. OEX

  33. Offset

  34. Offsetting Transaction

  35. Oil ETF

  36. Omega

  37. Omnibus Account

  38. On Track

  39. One-Touch Option

  40. Online Trading

  41. OPEC Basket

  42. Open

  43. Open Interest

  44. Open Outcry

  45. Opening Transaction

  46. Operational Efficiency

  47. Option

  48. Option Adjustable-Rate Mortgage - Option ARM

  49. Option Adjusted Spread - OAS

  50. Option Agreement

  51. Option Chain

  52. Option Class

  53. Option Cycle

  54. Option Disclosure Document

  55. Option Income Fund

  56. Option Margin

  57. Option Pool

  58. Option Premium

  59. Option Pricing Theory

  60. Option Schedule

  61. Option Series

  62. Optionable Stock

  63. Options Backdating

  64. Options Clearing Corporation - OCC

  65. Options Contract

  66. Options Industry Council - OIC

  67. Options On Futures

  68. Options Price Reporting Authority - OPRA

  69. Order Book Official

  70. OTC Options

  71. Out Of The Money - OTM

  72. Outperformance Option

  73. Outright Futures Position

  74. Outright Option

  75. Over-Hedging

  76. Overhang

  77. Overnight Index Swap

  78. Overwrite

  79. Overwriting

  80. Pacific Exchange - PCX

  81. Palladium

  82. Paper Profit (Paper Loss)

  83. Parity Price

  84. Participatory Notes

  85. Path Dependent Option

  86. Pay/Collect

  87. Payment Option ARM

  88. Pegging

  89. Perfect Hedge

  90. Performance Shares

  91. Period Certain

  92. Periodic Interest Rate

  93. Perpetual Option - XPO

  94. Perpetual Preferred Stock

  95. Philadelphia Semiconductor Index - SOX

  96. Philadelphia Stock Exchange - PHLX

  97. Phoenix Dollars

  98. Physical Delivery

  99. Physical Option

  100. Piggyback Warrants

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