short selling — The practice of selling securities not owned by the seller in the hope that the price subsequently falls and they can then be bought back at a lower price. The seller may have borrowed the necessary securities on a temporary basis in order to… … Law dictionary
Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team — (Twist) is a not for profit industry standards group. It does not charge anything for involvement. The main goal of Twist is to create non proprietary XML message standards for the financial services industry. To this end it provides a message… … Wikipedia
Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender … Wikipedia
Transaction processing system — A Transaction Processing System To be considered a transaction processing system the computer must pass the ACID test.From a technical perspective, a Transaction Processing System (or Transaction Processing Monitor) monitors transaction programs … Wikipedia
Transaction processing — For other uses, see Transaction (disambiguation). In computer science, transaction processing is information processing that is divided into individual, indivisible operations, called transactions. Each transaction must succeed or fail as a… … Wikipedia
Short sale (real estate) — A short sale occurs when the proceeds of a real estate sale fall short of the balance owed on the property. [http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/51715E63 5BC5 4DCE B5E96F71DFF3D5AB/alpha/S/ Short sale (of house) definition at Nolo.com.]… … Wikipedia
short hedge — also: selling hedge Selling futures contracts to protect against possible declining prices of commodities that will be sold in the future. At the time the cash commodities are sold, the open futures position is closed by purchasing an equal… … Financial and business terms
Short message service technical realisation (GSM) — The Short Message Service is realised by the use of the Mobile Application Part (MAP) of the SS#7 protocol, with Short Message protocol elements being transported across the network as fields within the MAP messages.Mobile Application Part… … Wikipedia
Short interest ratio — The short ratio (or short interest ratio) is usually the number of shares outstanding of a publicly traded company that is sold short, divided by the average daily trading volume (daily transaction). It can also be the percentage of the free… … Wikipedia
short sale — The sale of security that is not owned by the seller. The seller borrows the security, sells it, and then buys it at a later date to return it to the lender. The purpose of a short sale is to attempt to profit from the fall in the price of a… … Financial and business terms
Short Sale — A market transaction in which an investor sells borrowed securities in anticipation of a price decline and is required to return an equal number of shares at some point in the future. The payoff to selling short is the opposite of a long position … Investment dictionary