Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• THEORETICAL VALUE - An option’s value generated by a mathematical model given certain prior assumptions...
  
  
• THEORY OF CROSS HEDGING - Refers to a modification of the hedging process. It depends on hedging princi...
  
  
• THEORY OF HEDGING - Refers to economically reasonable techniques that generate compensatory offsets rel...
  
  
• THERAPEUTIC ALTERNATIVES - Drugs that may differ in chemical make up but are purported to have the same...
  
  
• THERM - 100,000 British thermal units. Ten therms, a dekatherm, is 1 million Btus.
  
  
• THERMAL MASS - Thermal mass is a property that enables building materials to absorb, store, and later r...
  
  
• THETA - Is the sensitivity of an option premium or price relative to changes in time. This characterist...
  
  
• THETA RISK - Refers to the time value exposure for an option. Academic literature tends to view it on a...
  
  
• THIN CORPORATION - A corporation with an excessive amount of debt in its capitalization. Primarily a ta...
  
  
• THIN MARKET - A market in which there are comparatively few bids to buy or offers to sell, or both. The...