Terms starting with C
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Cash-Secured Put
Writing a put while setting aside enough cash to buy the underlying if assigned.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationCDSL
The Central Depository Services Limited, India's second depository, holding securities in electronic form.
Bonds & Fixed IncomeCertificate of Deposit
A negotiable short-term deposit receipt issued by a bank at a discount to face value.
Indicators & OscillatorsChaikin Money Flow
The sum of volume weighted by close position over n periods, divided by total volume over the same periods.
Indicators & OscillatorsChandelier Exit
A trailing stop placed a multiple of average true range below the highest high since entry.
Technical Analysis & Chart PatternsChannel
A pair of parallel trendlines enclosing price movement, one along the swing highs and one along the swing lows.
Technical Analysis & Chart PatternsChart Timeframe
The period each bar or candle on a chart represents, from one minute to one month.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureCircuit Breaker
An automatic trading halt triggered when an index or a security moves beyond a preset percentage from a reference price.
Bonds & Fixed IncomeClean Price
A bond's quoted price excluding accrued interest.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureClearing Corporation
The entity that steps between buyer and seller after a trade, guaranteeing settlement to both sides.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureClearing Member
A member of a clearing corporation that settles trades and posts margins, either for itself or on behalf of trading members.
Funds, ETFs & Index InvestingCloset Indexing
An active fund that holds a portfolio close to its benchmark while charging active management fees.
Market Basics & InstrumentsClosing Price
The official end-of-day price of a security, computed in India as the volume-weighted average price of trades in the last thirty minutes.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureCo-location
The practice of placing a trading firm's servers in the exchange's own data centre to minimise the time an order takes to arrive.
Derivatives, Futures & OptionsCollar
Holding shares while buying a protective put and writing a call, funding the protection with the premium received.
Bonds & Fixed IncomeCommercial Paper
A short-term unsecured promissory note issued by a company at a discount to face value.
Market Basics & InstrumentsCommodity
A standardised raw material or primary product that is traded in interchangeable units, such as gold, crude oil or cotton.
Indicators & OscillatorsCommodity Channel Index
An unbounded oscillator measuring how far the typical price sits from its moving average, scaled by mean deviation.
Economy, Macro & Market CyclesCommodity Cycle
The long swing in commodity prices driven by the lag between demand changes and the supply response.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationCommodity Transaction Tax
A tax on the sell side of non-agricultural commodity derivative transactions on recognised exchanges.
Fundamental Analysis & ValuationComparable Company Analysis
The selection and adjustment of a peer group whose multiples are used to value a target company.
Fundamental Analysis & ValuationCompound Annual Growth Rate
The constant annual rate at which a value would have had to grow to move from its starting figure to its ending figure.
Risk & Portfolio ManagementConcentration Risk
The exposure created when a large share of a portfolio sits in one holding, sector or risk factor.
Risk & Portfolio ManagementConditional Value at Risk
The average loss on the occasions when the value-at-risk threshold is exceeded.