Tag: equities
Strategies
Concepts
- Accelerated Bookbuilds and Block Placements
- Adjusting Price History for a Rights Issue
- ADR Arbitrage and the Conversion Mechanism
- ADRs and Cross-Listings
- ADV Screens and Liquidity Tiering
- Authorised, Issued and Treasury Shares
- Board Lots and Minimum Tradable Quantities
- Buyback Execution and the Rule 10b-18 Safe Harbour
- Circuit Breakers and Trading Halts
- Collar Deals and Cash/Stock Elections with Proration
- What a Share of Stock Actually Is
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Contingent Value Rights
- Declaration, Record, Ex and Pay Dates
- Adjusting Price History for Corporate Actions
- Direct Listings and Reference Prices
- Dividend Arbitrage and Yield Enhancement
- The Dividend Discount Model
- Dividend Withholding Tax and Treaty Rates
- Dual-Class Structures and Sunset Clauses
- Dual-Listed Company Structures
- Equal-Weight and Alternative Index Weighting
- How an Equity Index Is Built
- Equity Index Futures and the Basis
- Settlement, Clearing and T+1
- ETF Premiums, Discounts and Tracking Difference
- Ex-Dividend Date Mechanics
- Fails to Deliver and the Buy-In Process
- Float-Adjusted Capitalisation Weighting
- Follow-On Offerings and ATM Programs
- Fractional Shares and Notional Orders
- Free Float and Shares Outstanding
- GDRs and Rule 144A Placements
- Going Private and Voluntary Delisting
- Hard-to-Borrow Names and Specials
- Index Capping and Concentration Limits
- Index Eligibility Screens
- Index Reconstitution Calendars and Effective Dates
- How Index Providers Handle Corporate Actions
- Initial Public Offerings
- IPO Bookbuilding and Allocation
- IPO Lock-Up Expiry
- Lending Shares and Losing the Vote
- Leveraged and Inverse ETFs
- Locates and Easy-to-Borrow Lists
- Mandatory Offer Thresholds and Creeper Rules
- Manufactured Dividends on Short Positions
- Large, Mid, Small and Micro Cap Tiers
- OCC Option Contract Adjustments
- Opening and Closing Auctions
- OTC Markets: Pink Sheets and Quotation Tiers
- Penny Stocks and Sub-Dollar Pricing
- Preferred Shares
- Trading Producers Against the Commodity
- Proxy Voting Mechanics and Record Dates
- Regulation NMS and the NBBO
- Reverse Splits and Fractional Share Cash-Outs
- Rights Issues
- Securities Lending and Borrow Fees
- Share Classes and Voting Rights
- Shareholder Activism and Proxy Fights
- Short Interest and Days to Cover
- How Short Selling Works
- Short Squeezes and Stock Recalls
- SPAC Structure and the De-SPAC Process
- Special Dividends and Return of Capital
- Spin-Offs and Carve-Outs
- Sponsored vs Unsponsored Depositary Receipts
- Squeeze-Outs and Compulsory Acquisition
- Stock Dividends and Bonus Issues
- Stock Dividends and Scrip Issues
- Hedging a Stock-for-Stock Deal
- Stock Splits and Reverse Splits
- Tender Offers and Takeover Mechanics
- TERP and Trading Nil-Paid Rights
- The A-H Share Premium
- The Economics of the Stock Loan Market
- The Greenshoe Option and Price Stabilisation
- The Index Divisor and Continuity Adjustments
- The Index Inclusion Effect
- The Move to T+1 Settlement
- The Small-Cap Liquidity Problem
- Total Return Swaps and Delta One
- Total Return vs Price Return
- Tracking Stocks
- Pre-Market, Regular and After-Hours Sessions
- When-Issued Trading Around a Spin-Off