Trading Basics
Dividend Adjustment
An adjustment made to an equity derivative to reflect a dividend in the underlying. Typically this is offset by a change in price from the underlying moving to reflect the payment.
Other Trading Basics
Balance of Trade
Also BoT. This is the difference between trade into or out of a country.
Experts and imports. It can be negative or positive and is used by traders in fundamental analysis.
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.
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