Contingency
Definition 1
An event that may or may not occur.
Definition 2
A condition that must be met in Order for a Contract to be legally binding.
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12b-1 funds,
Allowance for depreciation,
At par,
All or any part,
Alternative order,
At best,
At call,
Automated Order Entry System,
All-risks coverage,
At risk,
Add-on service,
Action to quiet title,
Adhesion contract,
Assignment to creditors,
Attorney in fact,
A shares,
At the money,
Additional paid-in capital,
At the bell,
At the close,
At the figure,
At the full,
At the market,
At the opening order,
Banking Act of 1933,
Bid-to-cover ratio,
Bullet contract,
Buying on margin,
Buy limit order,
Buy minus order,
Buy on close,
Buy on opening,
Buy order,
Buy stop order,
Break-even analysis,
B shares,
Break-even tax rate,
Contra account,
Credit order,
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures,
Contingency order,
Contingent order,
Contra broker,
Contract broker,
Cheapest to deliver,
Commodities Exchange Act,
Contract grades,
Contract market,
Contract month,
Contract,
Contract for deed,
Contract sale,
C shares,
Close to the money,
Contract size,
Cloud on title,
Cash or Deferred Arrangement,
Class A Shares,
Class B Shares,
Close a position,
Curbs in,
Deposit in transit,
Day order,
Designated Order Turnaround,
Discretionary order,
Do Not Reduce,
Dividend in arrears,
De-escalation clause,
De facto,
Debtor in possession,
Debtor-in-possession financing,
Due-on-sale clause,
Deep in the money,
Escrowed to maturity,
Event risk,
Ex-legal,
Either-or order,
Edge Act,
E-mini,
Exchange for futures,
Exchange for physical,
Ex-all,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
Even lot,
Even spread,
Even up,
First In First Out,
Flight to quality,
Fill or kill,
Front-ending an order,
Forward P/E,
Futures contract,
Fee-for-service,
Form S-1,
Fair Credit Reporting Act,
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,
Federal Insurance Contributions Act,
FIN,
Guaranteed Investment Contract,
Glass-Steagall Act,
G-7,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
G-8,
Gather in the stops,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,
Holder in due course,
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act,
HUD-1 statement,
Held at the opening,
In escrow,
In-house,
Investment Advisor Act of 1940,
Investment Company Act of 1940,
In line,
Insider Trading sanctions Act of 1984,
In intestacy,
In play,
In-process research and development,
I/O strip,
Installment sales contract,
In-service withdrawal,
In and out,
In sympathy,
In the tank,
Last In First Out,
Legal list,
Lending at a rate,
Limit-on-close order,
Limit order,
Limit order book,
Limit order information system,
Liquidity event,
Legal,
Legal age,
Legal entity,
Legal risk,
Legal assets,
Loan-to-cost,
Loan-to-value,
Lock-in,
Leg,
Long leg,
Land contract,
Locked in,
Long-term gain or loss,
Level I quotes,
Money order,
Make a market,
Market if touched order,
Market on close order,
Market order,
Mark-to-market,
May Day,
Marginal propensity to consume,
Money at call,
Negotiable Order of Withdrawal,
No limit order,
No quote,
No-Fault,
No-Action Letter,
No-lien affidavit,
No-load,
No-load stock,
No book,
Off-floor order,
On-floor order,
On margin,
Open order,
Or better,
Order,
Order flow,
Order ticket,
On account,
On-the-spot loan,
OCC,
Option contract,
On-balance volume,
On close,
On open,
On the opening,
Order book official,
Order imbalance,
Payment-in-kind security,
Price Value of a Basis Point,
Payment for order flow,
P&L,
Provision for income taxes,
Prudent Expert Act,
Paid-in capital,
Paid-in surplus,
Private Investment in Public Equity,
Return on Capital,
Return on Invested Capital,
Return on Total Assets,
Regulation D,
Regulation G,
Regulation T,
Regulation U,
Rule 15c3-1,
Regulation A,
Right to Know,
Retirement Equity Act of 1984,
Return on Capital Employed,
SG&A,
S&L,
Sell limit order,
Sell order,
Significant order,
Small Order Execution System,
Split order,
Stop-limit order,
Stop order,
Second-to-die insurance,
Severally but not jointly,
Short leg,
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees,
S Corporation,
Short-term gain or loss,
Subchapter M,
Subchapter S Corporation,
Scale order,
Schedule C,
Securities Act of 1933,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Seek a market,
S&P phenomenon,
T-Bill,
Term to maturity,
Take a position,
Time order,
Trailing P/E,
Truth in Lending,
Tenancy at will,
Top hat plan,
Taxable event,
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997,
Tax Reform Act of 1986,
Tax Reform Act of 1993,
Take a bath,
U.S. Government Agency Security,
U.S. Savings Bond,
U.S. Treasury,
U.S. Treasury Bill,
U.S. Treasury Bond,
U.S. Treasury Note,
U.S. Treasury Securities,
Uniform Securities Act,
Williams Act,
W-2 Form,
X or XD,
Year-To-Date,
Yield to call,
Yield to maturity,
Yield to worst,
Y shares