Trading Basics
Bottom Fishing
When a trader buys an asset cheaply at the bottom of its fall.
Other Trading Basics
Collateral
The resources put up by the trader to enter a trade.
Requested by the counterparty and normally in the form of cash but sometimes other liquid assets like shares.
Book Value
A valuation of something using its net assets on the balance sheet.
A very rough way of valuing an asset because it ignores the intangibles.
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