Financial Asset Trade

A Financial Asset Trade is a financial purchase of a financial instrument.

• AKA: Financial Instrument Transaction.
• Context:
  • It can be performed by a Financial Trader (such as an algorithmic trader).
  • It can range from being a Day Trade to being a Long-Term Financial Asset Purchase.
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• Example(s):
  • a Simple Stock Trade.
  • an IPO?
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Purchase Transaction.
• See: Short Selling, Security (Finance), Stock Trade, Bond (Finance), Commodity Trade, Currency Trade, Derivative (Finance), Exchange (Organized Market), Algorithmic Trading.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_(financial_instrument) Retrieved:2014-6-23.
  • In finance, a trade is an exchange of a security (stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, derivatives or any valuable financial instrument) for "cash", typically a short-dated promise to pay in the currency of the country where the 'exchange' is located.

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