Trading Basics
Convertible Stocks
A loan that the owner can convert to ordinary shares in that company, given a set of conditions defined in the original loan.
Other Trading Basics
Cash Call
When your broker asks you to deposit more cash into your brokerage account to cover margin requirements.
Book Building
When a new share is issued book building is the process institutions go through to gauge demand and therefore price.
This goes on before the share is available to trade on the exchange.
Call
An option that gives the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to buy a security at a certain price.
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