Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• POSITION - A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transact...
  
  
• POSITION 44 - The legislation states that substitute checks will use position 44 of the MICR line to id...
  
  
• POSITION BUILDING - Buying shares to build up a long position or selling shares to create a short posit...
  
  
• POSITION DIAGRAM - Diagram showing the possible payoffs from a derivative investment.
  
  
• POSITION LIMIT - For a single trader or firm, the maximum number of permitted outstanding obligations i...
  
  
• POSITION LIMITS - Applies to derivative products. Maximum position available in any one future or optio...
  
  
• POSITION MANAGEMENT RATIO - The ratio of profits extracted on winning transactions versus losses suffer...
  
  
• POSITION SELF - Used in the context of general equities. Going long or short in anticipation of a stock...
  
  
• POSITION SHEET - Used in the context of general equities. List of long and short positions for an indiv...
  
  
• POSITION TRADER - A commodities trader who takes a long-term approach in maintaining positions in the m...