Equitrend Glossary of Financial Terms

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In managing your investments, it is important to learn the meaning of the financial terms used in today's marketplace. This page contains a comprehensive financial glossary that contains more than 3,000 terms. If you find it useful, please feel free to share it with a friend.

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S And P
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor Lease
Safe Return Certificate
Safekeeping
Safety Cushion
Safety First Objective Function
Safety-Net Return
Saitori
Sale And Lease-Back
Sales Charge
Sales Forecast
Sales-Type Lease
Salvage Value
Same Day Funds Settlement (SDFS)
Same Day Securities Settlement (SDSS)
Samurai Bond
Samurai Market
Samurai Warrants
Saturday Night Special
Savings and Loan Association
Savings Deposit
Saw Toothed Convergence
Scale
Scale Enhancing
Scale In
Scale Order
Scalp
Scattered
Scenario Analysis
Schedule 13D
Scheduled Cash Flows
Scorched-Earth Policy
Screen Trading
Scrip
Seagull
Search Costs
Seasonal Swap
Seasonally Adjusted
Seasoned Datings
Seasoned Issue
Seasoned New Issue
Seat
SEC
Second Generation Duration
Secondary Currency Option
Secondary Distribution
Secondary Issue
Secondary Market
Secondary Offering
Secondary Warrants
Section 482
Sector
Sector Rotation
Secure Principal Energy Receipt (SPER)
Secured Debt
Secured Investor Trust
Securities Act of 1933
Securities And Exchange Commission
Securities and Investment Board (SIB)
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Securities Investors Protection Corporation
Securities Lending
Securitization
Securitized Options
Security
Security Characteristic Line
Security Deposit
Security Industry Automated Corporation
Security Market Line
Security Market Plane
Security Selection Decision
Segmented Market Hypothesis
Select Auction Variable Rate Securities (SAVRs)
Self-Liquidating Loan
Self-Regulatory Organization
Sell Limit Order
Sell Off
Sell Order
Sell Plus Order
Sell The Book
Seller's Option
Selling Group
Selling Short
Sell-Side Analyst
Semi-Fixed Swap
Semi-Strong Form Efficiency
Semi-Variance
Senior Debt
Seniority
Sensitivity
Sensitivity Analysis
Separation Property
Separation Theorem
Sequential Pay (SEQ) Bond
Serial Bonds
Serial Covariance
Series
Series 3
Series 6
Series 63
Series 7
Series Bond
Series of Options
Set Of Contracts Perspective
Set Up
Set-Off
Settlement
Settlement Date
Settlement Price
Settlement Rate
Settlement Risk
Severability
Shadow Stock
Share Ratio Contract
Share Repurchase
Shareholders
Shareholders' Equity
Shareholders' Letter
Shares
Shark Repellant
Shark Watcher
Sharpe Ratio
Shelf Offering
Shelf Registration
Shell
Shirking
Shogun Bond
Shop
Shopped Stock
Shopping
Short
Short Against the Box
Short Bonds
Short Covering
Short Exempt
Short Hedge
Short Interest
Short Interest Ratio
Short Position
Short Proceeds
Short Sale
Short Sale Rule
Short Settlement
Short Squeeze
Short Straddle
Short Tendering
Short the Basis
Shortage Cost
Short-Dated Swap
Shortfall Constraint
Shortfall Risk
Short-Run Operating Activities
Short-Short Rule
Short-Term
Short-Term Appreciation and Investment Return Trust (STAIR)
Short-Term Equity Participation Units (STEP Units)
Short-Term Financial Plan
Short-Term Instruments Linked to Treasuries (STILT)
Short-Term Investment Service
Short-Term Solvency Ratios
Short-Term Tax Exempts
Shout Option
Show And Tell List
Show Me Buyer (Seller)
Shut Out The Book
Side Effects
Side-by-Side Trading
Sidelines
Siegel's Paradox
Sight Draft
Signal
Signaling Approach
Signaling View
Simple Compound Growth Method
Simple Interest
Simple Linear Regression
Simple Linear Trend Model
Simple Moving Average
Simple Prospect
Simulation
Simulation Analysis
Singapore International Monetary Exchange
Single Country Fund
Single Factor Model
Single Index Model
Single Issue Options
Single Monthly Mortality (SMM)
Single Point Adjustable Rate Stock (SPARS)
Single-Payment Bond
Single-Premium Deferred Annuity
Sinking Fund
Sinking Fund Requirement
Sit Tight
Size
Size Out The Book
Skew Measure
Skewed Distribution
Skewness
Skip-Day Settlement
Sleeper
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Point
Sliding Floor Plan
Slippage
Small Issues Exemption
Small Order Execution System
Small-Cap Investment Manager
Small-Firm Effect
Smidge
Smithsonian Agreement
Snowballing
Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications
Soft Call Protection
Soft Currency
Soft Dollars
Sold Away
Sole Proprietorship
Solvency
Source Of Funds Seller
Sovereign Risk
SPDR (Standard & Poor's-500 Depository Receipts)
Special Claim On Residual Equity (SCORE)
Special Dividend
Special Drawing Rights
Special Miscellaneous Account (SMA)
Special Quotation (SQ)
Specialist
Specialist Market
Specialist's Book
Specialty Management
Specie
Specific Issues Market
Spectail
Speculation
Speculative Demand
Speculative Grade Bond
Speculator
Spider
Spike
Spin-Off
Split
Split Cylinder or Split Risk Reversal
Split Print
Split Stock
Split-Fee Option
Split-Rate Tax System
Spoken For
Spot Exchange Rates
Spot Futures Parity Theorem
Spot Interest Rate
Spot Lending
Spot Market
Spot Month
Spot Price
Spot Rate
Spot Rate Curve
Spot Secondary
Spot Start
Spot Trade
Spot-Deferred Contract
SPRD
Spread
Spread Hedge
Spread Income
Spread Option
Spread Put Bond
Spread Risk
Spread Strategy
Spread-Lock Agreement
Spread-Lock Option
Spread-Lock Swap
Spreadsheet
Stabilization
Stabilized Mortgage Reduction Term (SMRT) Bond
Stack Hedge
Staggered Board Of Directors
Stakeholder
Stamp Duty
Stand Up To
Stand-Alone Principle
Standard & Poor's (S&P) 'r' Symbol
Standard & Poors Corporation
Standard & Poor's Index Notes (SPINs)
Standard Deviation
Standard Error
Standard Industrial Classification
Standard Option
Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk (SPAN)
Standard Prepayment Assumptions
Standardization
Standardized Normal Distribution
Standardized Value
Standby Agreement
Standby Fee
Standing
Standstill Agreement
Start Date
Stated Annual Interest Rate
Stated Conversion Price
Stated Rate Auction Preferred Stock
Statement Billing
Statement of Cash Flows
Statement-Of-Cash-Flows Method
Static Theory Of Capital Structure
Statute of Frauds
Statutory Surplus
Steady State
Steepening Of The Yield Curve
Step Aside
Step Premium Option
Step-Down Coupon Note
Step-Down Swap
Step-Down Warrant
Step-Up
Step-Up Bond
Step-Up Cap
Step-Up Capped Floating Rate Note
Step-Up Coupon Note
Step-Up Swap
Step-Up Warrant
Sterilized Intervention
Sterling At Risk (SAR)
Sticky Jump (SJ) Bond
Stock
Stock Ahead
Stock Appreciation Right
Stock Dividend
Stock Equivalent
Stock Exchange Automated Quotation System
Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong
Stock Exchanges
Stock Index
Stock Index Contingent Option
Stock Index Futures Contract
Stock Index Insured Account
Stock Index Option
Stock Loan Contracts
Stock Market
Stock Market Annual Reset Term (SMART) Note
Stock Option
Stock Power
Stock Replacement Strategy
Stock Repurchase
Stock Right
Stock Selection
Stock Split
Stock Ticker
Stock Upside Note Security (SUNS)
Stockbroker
Stockholder's Equity
Stockout
Stock-Over-Bond (SOB) Warrant
Stop Order
Stop-Limit Order
Stop-Loss Order
Stopped
Stopping Curve
Stopping Curve Refunding Rate
Straddle
Straight line Depreciation
Straight Value
Straight Voting
Strangle
Strap
Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA)
Strategic Business Unit (SBU)
Strategic Risks
Stratified Equity Indexing
Stratified Sampling Approach To Indexing
Stratified Sampling Bond Indexing
Street
Street Name
Stress Testing
Strike Bonus Option
Strike Index
Strike Premium
Strike Price
Strike-Step Option
Strip
Strip Hedge
Stripped Bond
Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities
Stripped Mortgage-Backed Security (SMBS)
Stripped Municipals
Stripped Yield
Strong-Form Efficiency
Structured Arbitrage Transaction
Structured Debt
Structured Enhanced Returns Trust
Structured Financial Transaction
Structured Note
Structured Product
Structured Settlement
Stub
Student Loan Marketing Agency (Sallie Mae)
Style Management
Sub-Diversification
Subject
Subject Bid or Offer
Subject To Opinion
Subjective Probabilities
Subordinated Debenture Bond
Subordinated Debt
Subordination Clause
Subperiod Return
Subrogation
Subscription
Subscription Price
Subscription Warrant
Subsidiary
Substitute Sale
Substitution Swap
Suitability Risk
Suitability Rules
Sunk Cost
Sunset Provision
Super DOT (Super Designated Order Turn-around System)
Super Planned Amortization Class Bond
Super Upside Note (SUN)
Superfloater Swap
Supermajority
Supermajority Amendment
Supervisory Analyst
Supply Shock
Support
Support Bond
Support Level
Surplus Funds
Sushi Bond
Suspended Trading
Sustainable Earnings Level
Sustainable Growth Rate
Swap
Swap Arranger
Swap Buy-Back
Swap Market Maker
Swap Rate
Swap Rate Differential
Swap Rate Lock
Swap Replacement Cost
Swap Reversal
Swap Sale
Swap Spread
Swap Spread Lock
Swaps with Option Payoffs
Swaption
Sweep Account
Swingline
Swissy
Switch Order
Switchback Option
Switching
Symbol
Symbol Book Special
Symmetric Cash Matching
Synchronous Data
Syndicate
Syndicate Bid
Synergistic Effect
Synthetic Agreement for Foreign Exchange
Synthetic Convertible
Synthetic Long
Synthetic Put Option
Synthetic Short
Synthetic Stock
Synthetic Zero Coupon Convertible Bond
Synthetics
Systematic
Systematic Risk
Systematic Risk Principle
Systemic Risk