Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BUY ORDER - An order to a broker to purchase a specific quantity of a security.
  
  
• BUY PRICE - Enter here the price you paid for a security. If, for example, you paid 8 1/4 a share for a...
  
  
• BUY STOP ORDER - A buy order not to be executed until the market price rises to the stop price. Once th...
  
  
• BUY THE BOOK - An order typically from a large institutional investor to a broker to purchase all the s...
  
  
• BUY TO CLOSE - Term for closing out (or liquidating) a short equity or option position by buying back t...
  
  
• BUY TO LET - A type of mortgage taken out by people who want to become landlords. It's a way of investi...
  
  
• BUY WRITE - See also Covered Call.
  
  
• BUY-AND-HOLD STRATEGY - A passive investment strategy with no active buying and selling of stocks from ...
  
  
• BUY-AND-WRITE STRATEGY - An options strategy that calls for the purchase of stocks and the writing of c...
  
  
• BUY-BACK AGREEMENT - a provision in a real estate sales contract stating that the seller will repurchas...