Dictionary


Open Trades
Current trades that are still held active in the customer's account.
Option
A contract that provides the right but not the obligation to buy or sell a specified amount of a security within a specified time period.
Option Premium
The market price of an option that is paid by an option buyer to the option writer for the right to buy or sell the underlying security at a specified price by the option's expiration date.
Order
A request from a client to a broker to buy (buy order) or sell (sell order) a specified amount of a particular security or commodity at a specific price or at the market price. There are different types of orders: market order, limit order, good-till-canceled order, etc.
Oscillator
Technical indicator used to identify overbought and oversold price regions. An indicator that detrends data, such as price.