Trading Trading Instruments

Trading Instruments

Trading instruments are the assets or markets that are bought and sold by traders in the pursuit of profits. Major trading instruments include stocks, bonds, commodities, options, currencies, indexes, ETFs, and many more.

Credit Default Swap - CDS

A particular type of swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed income products between two or more parties.

Put Option

A put options gives the owner the right to sell a specified amount of an underlying security at a specified price before the option expires.
VIX - CBOE Volatility Index

The Volatility Index, or VIX, is an index created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which shows the market's expectation of 3-da...
Volatility

Volatility measures how much the price of a security, derivative, or index fluctuates.