Surveillance department
Department within an Exchange which monitors trading Activity to confirm that it meets Exchange and SEC regulations.
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1035 exchange,
Above par,
American Stock Exchange,
At par,
All or any part,
At best,
At call,
At risk,
Add-on service,
Action to quiet title,
Assignment to creditors,
Attorney in fact,
A shares,
At the money,
Activity,
Additional paid-in capital,
Ad valorem,
After-hours trading,
At the bell,
At the close,
At the figure,
At the full,
At the market,
At the opening order,
Automated Pricing and Reporting System,
Banking Act of 1933,
Bank Trust Department,
Below par,
Bid-to-cover ratio,
Brokerage firm,
Buying on margin,
Buy on close,
Buy on opening,
Basis trading,
Bill of exchange,
B shares,
Buy and write,
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures,
Clearing firm,
Compliance department,
Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Cash and carry trade,
Cheapest to deliver,
Commodities Exchange Act,
Commodities Exchange Center,
Commodity Exchange,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
Commodity Trading Advisor,
Chicago Board Options Exchange,
C shares,
Close to the money,
Cloud on title,
Cash or Deferred Arrangement,
Class A Shares,
Class B Shares,
Child and dependent care credit,
Cup and handle,
Close a position,
Curbs in,
Deposit in transit,
Division of Market Regulation,
Dividend in arrears,
Daily trading limit,
De-escalation clause,
De facto,
Debtor in possession,
Debtor-in-possession financing,
Due-on-sale clause,
Deep in the money,
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Escrowed to maturity,
Exchange,
Ex-legal,
Either-or order,
Exchange seat,
Exchange rate,
Effective par,
Edge Act,
E-mini,
Exchange against actuals,
Exchange for futures,
Exchange for physical,
Exchange of spot,
Exchange versus cash,
Ex-pit transaction,
Ex-all,
Exchange ratio,
Exchange fund,
Exchange privilege,
Exchange-traded option,
Ex-warrants,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
Ex-rights,
Ex-rights date,
Exchange distribution,
First In First Out,
Federal Savings and Loan Association,
Flight to quality,
Fill or kill,
Firm quotation,
Front-ending an order,
Floating exchange rate,
Foreign exchange,
Foreign exchange rate,
Forward exchange rate,
Forward P/E,
Form S-1,
Firm commitment offering,
Friends and family offering,
Fair Credit Reporting Act,
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,
Firm commitment lending,
Full faith and credit,
Free and clear,
Federal Insurance Contributions Act,
Free right of exchange,
Glass-Steagall Act,
G-7,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
G-8,
Growth and income fund,
Gather in the stops,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976,
Hang Seng Index,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,
Holder in due course,
Hang out loan,
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act,
Head and shoulders,
Held at the opening,
Historical trading range,
In escrow,
In-house,
Investment Advisor Act of 1940,
Investment Company Act of 1940,
In line,
Insider trading,
Insider Trading sanctions Act of 1984,
In intestacy,
In play,
In-process research and development,
I/O strip,
In-service withdrawal,
In and out,
In sympathy,
Intermarket Trading System,
In the tank,
Jointly and severally,
Joint and several liability,
Joint and survivor annuity,
Last In First Out,
Lending at a rate,
Limit-on-close order,
Last trading day,
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange,
Loan-to-cost,
Loan-to-value,
Lock-in,
Like-kind exchange,
Locked in,
Long-term gain or loss,
Level I quotes,
Matrix trading,
Make a market,
Market on close order,
Mark-to-market,
Member firm,
Medium of exchange,
Marginal propensity to consume,
Money at call,
New York Stock Exchange,
NASD Regulation,
Nonmember firm,
New York Futures Exchange,
Null and void,
Net change,
On-floor order,
On margin,
Or better,
On account,
On-the-spot loan,
Old age, survivors, and disability insurance,
On-balance volume,
On close,
On open,
On the opening,
Option exchange,
Profit and loss statement,
Par bond,
Payment-in-kind security,
Price Value of a Basis Point,
P&L,
Prudent Expert Act,
Paid-in capital,
Paid-in surplus,
Private Investment in Public Equity,
Program trading,
Point-and-figure chart,
Paper trading,
Primary exchange,
Reports and Records,
Return on Capital,
Return on Invested Capital,
Return on Total Assets,
Regulation Q,
Regulation D,
Regulation G,
Regulation T,
Regulation U,
Research department,
Rate of exchange,
Regulation A,
Right to Know,
Regulation Z,
Retirement Equity Act of 1984,
Regulation FD,
Return on Capital Employed,
Regional exchange,
SEC filing,
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses,
SG&A,
Savings and Loan,
S&L,
SEC,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
Series EE bond,
SEC fee,
Spot trading,
Second-to-die insurance,
Stock exchange,
Sale and leaseback,
S Corporation,
Short-term gain or loss,
Subchapter M,
Subchapter S Corporation,
Schedule C,
Securities Act of 1933,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Seek a market,
S&P phenomenon,
Stop and reverse,
Surveillance department,
Suspended trading,
T-Bill,
Term to maturity,
Trading,
Take a position,
Trading authorization,
Trailing P/E,
Trading range,
Truth in Lending,
Tenancy at will,
Top hat plan,
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997,
Tax Reform Act of 1986,
Tax Reform Act of 1993,
Trading profit,
Trading Index,
Take a bath,
Thin market,
Trading costs,
Trading curb,
Trading floor,
Trading halt,
Trading session,
Trading volume,
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,
Unlisted trading,
Unit of trading,
With interest,
Williams Act,
Widow-and-orphan stock,
W-2 Form,
W formation,
When, as, and if issued,
X or XD,
Year-To-Date,
Yield to call,
Yield to maturity,
Yield to worst,
Y shares