- Industry: Financial services
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Income from a limited partnership that creates taxability without generating cash flow.
Industry:Financial services
The range within which a particular position makes a profit. Generally used in refernce to strategies that have two break-even points - an upside break-even and a downside break-even. The price range between the two break-even points would be the profit range.
Industry:Financial services
A type of incentive grant in which the recipient is not issued actual shares of stock on the grant date but receives an account credited with a certain number of hypothetical shares. The value of the account increases over time based on the appreciation of the stock price and the crediting of phantom dividends. Payout may be settled in cash or stock.
Industry:Financial services
An incentive system providing that employees share in company profits through a cash fund or a deferred plan used to buy stock or bonds.
Industry:Financial services
An incentive scheme that awards management bonuses based on increases in the market price of the company's stock.
Industry:Financial services
A table of results of a particular strategy at some point in time. This is usually a tabular compilation of the data drawn on a profit graph. See also Profit Graph.
Industry:Financial services
A graph which shows all possible states of a system. In phase space we plot the value of a variable against possible values of the other variables at the same time. If a system had three descriptive variables, we plot the phase space in three dimensions, with each variable taking one dimension.
Industry:Financial services
Action by short-term securities traders to cash in on gains created by a sharp market rise, which pushes prices down temporarily but implies an upward market trend. See: Ring the [cash] register.
Industry:Financial services
A subsidiary of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange that trades currency futures.
Industry:Financial services
The present value of the future cash flows divided by the initial investment. Also called the benefit-cost ratio.
Industry:Financial services
