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Cash and Carry Arbitrage
Buying the underlying in the cash market while selling its futures, locking in the basis as a return.
Financial Statements & AccountingCash and Cash Equivalents
Cash on hand, bank balances and short-term highly liquid investments readily convertible to a known amount of cash.
Fundamental Analysis & ValuationCash Conversion Cycle
The number of days between paying for inputs and collecting cash from customers.
Financial Statements & AccountingCash Flow Statement
A statement reconciling the change in a company's cash balance over a period, split into operating, investing and financing activities.
Economy, Macro & Market CyclesCash Reserve Ratio
The proportion of deposits banks must hold as cash with the Reserve Bank, earning no interest.
Derivatives, Futures & OptionsCash Settlement
Settlement of a derivative by paying the cash difference between the contract price and the final settlement price.
Derivatives, Futures & OptionsCash-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.