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Broker Terminology

  1. Account Freeze

  2. Advisory Management

  3. Aged Fail

  4. Agency Broker

  5. Agency Cross

  6. Aleatory Contract

  7. Assign

  8. Best Execution

  9. Bid Size

  10. Blind Brokering

  11. Block Order

  12. Block Trading Facility - BTF

  13. Blockage Discount

  14. Board Broker

  15. Board Broker System

  16. Board Lot

  17. Broker

  18. Broker Association

  19. Broker Booth Support System - BBSS

  20. Broker-Dealer

  21. Broker-Reseller

  22. Brokerage Account

  23. Brokerage Company

  24. Brokered Deposit

  25. Brokered Market

  26. Burst Basket

  27. Cage

  28. Cancellation

  29. Cash Transaction

  30. Clean Your Skirts

  31. Compliance Officer

  32. Contra Broker

  33. Coverage Initiated

  34. Covered Stock (Coverage)

  35. Crest

  36. Cross

  37. Daily Average Revenue Trades - DARTs

  38. Dark Pool Liquidity

  39. Day Loan

  40. Dealer

  41. Deck

  42. Deep Discount Broker

  43. Direct Market Access - DMA

  44. Direct-Access Broker

  45. Discount Broker

  46. Discretionary Account

  47. Distribution Stock

  48. Do Not Increase - DNI

  49. Don't Know - DK

  50. European Best Bid And Offer - EBBO

  51. Executing Broker

  52. Exhaust Price

  53. Expunge

  54. Fade

  55. Fictitious Trade

  56. Firm Quote

  57. Flat Dollar

  58. Full Trading Authorization

  59. General Collateral Financing Trades - GCF

  60. Give Up

  61. Held At The Opening

  62. Hit The Bid

  63. Hybrid Market

  64. Hypothecation

  65. In Street Name

  66. Joint Account

  67. Large Trader

  68. Limited Discretionary Account

  69. Long Market Value

  70. Manual Execution

  71. Market Maker Spread

  72. May Day

  73. Member Firm

  74. Minimum Balance

  75. Minimum Deposit

  76. Minus Tick

  77. National Best Bid and Offer - NBBO

  78. Negative Obligation

  79. No Quote

  80. Nominee

  81. Non-Client Order

  82. Non-Directed Order

  83. Non-Objecting Beneficial Owner - NOBO

  84. Odd Lot

  85. Off-Floor Order

  86. Order Management System - OMS

  87. Order Splitting

  88. Outside Broker

  89. Paid-Up

  90. Pairing Off

  91. Partial Redemption

  92. Payment For Order Flow

  93. Pit

  94. Pork Chop

  95. Principal Orders

  96. Prop Shop

  97. Public Book (Of Orders)

  98. Qualified Professional Asset Manager - QPAM

  99. Qualified Special Representative Agreement - QSR

  100. Quote Stuffing

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