Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RATINGS - Various alphabetical and numerical designations used by institutional investors, Wall Street ...
  
  
• RATIO - the relative size, expressed as the number of times one quantity is contained in another (for e...
  
  
• RATIO ANALYSIS - involves conversion of financial numbers for a firm into ratios. Ratio analysis allows...
  
  
• RATIO CALENDAR COMBINATION - A strategy consisting of a simultaneous position of a ratio calendar sprea...
  
  
• RATIO CALENDAR SPREAD - Selling more near-termoptions than longer-term ones purchased, all with the sam...
  
  
• RATIO SPREAD - Constructed with either puts or calls, the strategy consists of buying a certain amount ...
  
  
• RATIO STRATEGY - A strategy in which one has an unequal number of long secruities and short sercurities...
  
  
• RATIO WRITER - An option writer who does not own the number of shares required to cover the call option...
  
  
• RATIO WRITES - Refers to writing options against the underlying instrument in a greater- or less-than o...
  
  
• RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS - The idea that people rationally anticipate the future and respond today to what...