Loan Dictionary - P group - Portfolio Variance, Pos, Position, Position 44, Position Building, Position Diagram, Position Limit, Position Limits, Position Management Ratio, Position Self

Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

PORTFOLIO VARIANCE - Weighted sum of the covariance and variances of the assets in a portfolio.
POS - Point of Sale. An electronic payment system for retail goods and services, through the use of cre...
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...