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2. Decentralized finance - Wikipedia

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   Decentralized finance. Decentralized finance (often stylized as DeFi) offers financial instruments without relying on intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks by using smart contracts on a blockchain, mainly Ethereum. DeFi platforms allow people to lend or borrow funds from others, speculate on price movements on assets using ...

3. Basket option - Wikipedia

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   Basket option. A basket option is a financial derivative, more specifically an exotic option, whose underlying is a weighted sum or average of different assets that have been grouped together in a basket. A basket option is similar to an index option, where a number of stocks have been grouped together in an index and the option is based on the ...

4. Derivative (finance) - Wikipedia

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   Basics. Derivatives are contracts between two parties that specify conditions (especially the dates, resulting values and definitions of the underlying variables, the parties' contractual obligations, and the notional amount) under which payments are to be made between the parties. [5] [6] The assets include commodities, stocks, bonds, interest ...

5. Accumulator (structured product) - Wikipedia

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   Financial markets. Accumulators (aka: share forward accumulators) are financial derivative products sold by an issuer (seller) to investors (the buyer) that require the buyers to buy shares of some underlying security at a predetermined strike price, settled periodically. [1] This allows the investor to "accumulate" holdings in the underlying ...

6. Delta one - Wikipedia

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   That is, a derivative that is not an option or a product with embedded options. Examples of delta one products are Exchange-traded funds, equity swaps, custom baskets, linear certificates, futures, forwards, exchange-traded notes, trackers, and Forward rate agreements. As the price for these products closely track their underlying asset and the ...

7. Butterfly (options) - Wikipedia

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   In finance, a butterfly (or simply fly) is a limited risk, non-directional options strategy that is designed to have a high probability of earning a limited profit when the future volatility of the underlying asset is expected to be lower (when long the butterfly) or higher (when short the butterfly) than that asset's current implied volatility .

8. Credit default option - Wikipedia

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   Credit default option. In finance, a default option, credit default swaption or credit default option is an option to buy protection (payer option) or sell protection (receiver option) as a credit default swap on a specific reference credit with a specific maturity. The option is usually European, exercisable only at one date in the future at a ...

9. Ladder (option combination) - Wikipedia

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   In finance, a ladder, also known as a Christmas tree, is a combination of three options of the same type (all calls or all puts) at three different strike prices. [1] A long ladder is used by traders who expect low volatility, while a short ladder is used by traders who expect high volatility. [1] [2] Ladders are in some ways similar to ...