Hit the bid
Situation in which a Dealer agrees to Sell at the highest price offered ("bid") by another Dealer for a given stock. opposite of take the Offer.
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10-K,
52-week high,
19c3 stock,
Allowance for depreciation,
Accrual of discount,
American Stock Exchange,
Amortization of premium,
Asked price,
Asking price,
At par,
All or any part,
At best,
At call,
Adjustable rate preferred stock,
Adjusted futures price,
At risk,
Add-on service,
Abstract of title,
Action to quiet title,
Assignment to creditors,
Attorney in fact,
Assignment of mortgage,
A shares,
Average price per share,
Aggregate exercise price,
At the money,
Across the board,
Additional paid-in capital,
Against the box,
At the bell,
At the close,
At the figure,
At the full,
At the market,
At the opening order,
Away from the market,
Below the line,
Books of final entry,
Books of original entry,
Banking Act of 1933,
Best bid,
Bid,
Bid/ask spread,
Bid-to-cover ratio,
Bureau of Public Debt,
Brought over the wall,
Buying on margin,
Buy on close,
Buy on opening,
Buy the book,
Balance of payments,
Board of Governors,
Breaking the syndicate,
Bill of exchange,
Bill of sale,
Breach of trust,
By the book,
Blitzkrieg tender offer,
B shares,
Borrowed stock,
Blow-off top,
Breadth-of-market theory,
Beat the gun,
Cost Of Goods Sold,
Cost of sales,
Call price,
Certificate of Participation,
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures,
Common stock equivalent,
Conversion parity price,
Conversion price,
Code of procedure,
Capitalization of income,
Consumer Price Index,
Cost of Living Adjustment,
Cost-of-living index,
Council of Economic Advisers,
Cyclical stock,
Cash price,
Certificated stock,
Chasing the market,
Cheapest to deliver,
Chicago Board of Trade,
Cost-of-living rider,
Callable stock,
Certificate of stock,
Consumer stock,
Control stock,
Cost of carry,
Competitive bid,
Certificate of title,
Contract for deed,
Cancellation of debt,
Certificate of Claim,
Cost of debt capital,
Cost of funds,
Creeping tender offer,
C shares,
Class of options,
Close to the money,
Certificate of Occupancy,
Cloud on title,
Cash or Deferred Arrangement,
Class A Shares,
Class B Shares,
Crash of 1929,
Crash of 1987,
Coefficient of determination,
Certificate of delivery,
Close a position,
Closing price,
Cornering the market,
Curbs in,
Dealer bank,
Deposit in transit,
Date of issue,
Date of payment,
Dealer market,
Dollar price,
Dealer,
Division of Enforcement,
Division of Investment Management,
Division of Market Regulation,
Do Not Reduce,
Date of record,
Dividend in arrears,
Desk (the),
Division of labor,
Delivery price,
Deal stock,
Defensive stock,
Distribution stock,
Donated stock,
De-escalation clause,
De facto,
Durable Power of Attorney,
Date of maturity,
Debtor in possession,
Debtor-in-possession financing,
Deed of Release,
Deed of Trust,
Discharge of bankruptcy,
Discharge of lien,
Due-on-sale clause,
Deep in the money,
Deep out of the money,
Deed of Surrender,
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Dirty stock,
Dogs of the Dow,
Daily high,
Depth of market,
Deal,
Deal flow,
Eurodollar certificate of deposit,
Escrowed to maturity,
Either-or order,
E-mini,
Exchange for futures,
Exchange for physical,
Exchange of spot,
Employee Stock Purchase Plan,
Employee stock repurchase agreement,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
First In First Out,
Flight to quality,
Flow of funds,
Full price,
Fill or kill,
Front-ending an order,
Forward deal,
Forward P/E,
Factors of production,
Favorable balance of trade,
Free market price,
Forward price,
Futures price,
Fee-for-service,
First preferred stock,
Form 8-K,
Form S-1,
Full stock,
Family of funds,
Fund of funds,
Free right of exchange,
Federal ID Number,
Growth stock,
G-7,
GDP implicit price deflator,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
G-8,
Gather in the stops,
High-grade bond,
High yield,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976,
Hit the bid,
House of issue,
High,
High-flyer,
High-tech stock,
Holder in due course,
High credit,
High-ratio mortgage,
Home equity line of credit,
High-low index,
Hammering the market,
Held at the opening,
Holding the market,
Horizontal price movement,
In escrow,
In-house,
Investment Advisor Act of 1940,
Investment Company Act of 1940,
Income stock,
In line,
Insider Trading sanctions Act of 1984,
Internal Rate of Return,
Indication of interest,
In intestacy,
In play,
In-process research and development,
I/O strip,
In-service withdrawal,
Imbalance of orders,
In and out,
In sympathy,
In the tank,
Jumping the gun,
Joint Stock Company,
Last In First Out,
Lender of last resort,
Law of one price,
Lending at a rate,
Limit-on-close order,
Limit price,
Law of demand,
Law of supply,
London Inter-Bank Offer Rate,
Loan stock,
Letter of comment,
Line of credit,
Loan-to-cost,
Loan-to-value,
Lock-in,
Leading the market,
Locked in,
Long-term gain or loss,
Level I quotes,
Market conversion price,
Make a market,
Market on close order,
Mark-to-market,
Medium of exchange,
Marginal propensity to consume,
Marginable stock,
Money at call,
Maximum price fluctuation,
Negotiable certificate of deposit,
Negotiable Order of Withdrawal,
New York Stock Exchange,
Noncompetitive bid,
Notice of Sale,
National Association of Securities Dealers,
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system,
No limit order,
No quote,
No-Fault,
Nonvoting stock,
No-Action Letter,
No-lien affidavit,
Notice of Default,
No-load,
Non-qualified stock option,
Non-statutory stock option,
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts,
No-load stock,
New high,
No book,
Off-balance-sheet financing,
Off the books,
Other current assets,
Other long term liabilities,
Office of Thrift Supervision,
Offer,
Offering price,
Out-of-favor,
Over-the-Counter,
Off-floor order,
On-floor order,
On margin,
Or better,
Other income,
Optionable stock,
Original issue stock,
Opinion of title,
On account,
On-the-spot loan,
Option price,
Out of the money,
On-balance volume,
Odd lot buy/sell ratio,
Off-board,
On close,
On open,
On the opening,
Pooling of interests,
Paper dealer,
Payment-in-kind security,
Price Value of a Basis Point,
Payment for order flow,
Primary Dealer,
Preferred stock,
Prior preferred stock,
P&L,
Provision for income taxes,
Price index,
Producer Price Index,
Parity price,
Price limit,
PPO,
Public offering price,
Power of Attorney,
Prioritization of debt,
Price spread,
Privilege dealer,
Paid-in capital,
Paid-in surplus,
Percent held by institutions,
Pre-syndicate bid,
Private Investment in Public Equity,
Preservation of capital,
Painting the tape,
Price range,
Price-weighted index,
Return of capital,
Return on Capital,
Return on Invested Capital,
Return on Total Assets,
Redemption price,
Reading the tape,
Regulation D,
Regulation G,
Regulation T,
Regulation U,
Round of funding,
Rules of Fair Practice,
Rate of exchange,
Reciprocal of European terms,
Retail Price Index,
Restricted stock,
Red herring,
Regulation A,
Reverse Take-Over,
Right of first refusal,
Right of rescission,
Right to Know,
Revolving line of credit,
Right of recourse,
Rule of 78,
Right of redemption,
Retirement Equity Act of 1984,
Risk/return trade-off,
Return on Capital Employed,
Rate of return,
Real rate of return,
SG&A,
Sight letter of credit,
S&L,
Stock association,
Sell,
Series EE bond,
Stock buyback,
Segregation of securities,
Sell limit order,
Sell order,
Sell plus,
Sell-side analyst,
Sell the book,
Stock loan,
Stop price,
Syndicate bid,
Second preferred stock,
Stock dividend,
Standard of living,
Settlement price,
Single stock futures,
Spot price,
Second-to-die insurance,
Stock life insurance company,
Secondary stock,
Stock bonus plan,
Stock certificate,
Stock Clearing Corporation,
Stock consolidation,
Stock exchange,
Stock index,
Stock market,
Stock option,
Stock option plan,
Stock power,
Stock screening,
Stock swap,
Stock symbol,
Stock ticker,
Severally but not jointly,
Subscription price,
Statute of Limitations,
Satisfaction of debt,
Staggered board of directors,
Stock fund,
Selling the spread,
Synthetic stock,
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees,
Share price,
Special situation,
Split-adjusted price,
Stock list,
Story stock,
Selling short against the box,
Shorting against the box,
S Corporation,
Short-term gain or loss,
Subchapter S Corporation,
Schedule C,
Securities Act of 1933,
Securities Acts Amendments of 1975,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Seek a market,
S&P phenomenon,
T-Bill,
Term to maturity,
Take a position,
Trailing P/E,
Take delivery,
Tender offer,
Treasury Stock,
Tenancy by the entirety,
Truth in Lending,
Tenancy at will,
The Street,
Timing the market,
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997,
Tax Reform Act of 1986,
Tax Reform Act of 1993,
Take a bath,
Take profits,
Target price,
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,
Unit of trade,
Unit of trading,
Value stock,
Vetoing stock,
Voting stock,
Wage price spiral,
Waiver of premium,
Watered stock,
Widow-and-orphan stock,
W-2 Form,
W formation,
X or XD,
Year-To-Date,
Yield to call,
Yield to maturity,
Yield to worst,
Y shares