Net Position - The amount of currency bought or sold which have not yet been offset by opposite transactions.
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Net Position: The difference between the open long contracts and the open short contracts held by a trader in any one commodity.
NFA: National Futures Association.
Net Position
Refers to the difference between long and short market positions held by an individual or a company. A dealer with 100 short futures contracts and 80 long contracts will have a net short position of 20 contracts.
Net Position
The number of futures contracts bought or sold which have not yet been offset by opposite transactions.
Next Best Price Stop-loss Order
A stop-loss order which must be executed after the request level was reached.
Net Position - total amount of currency for all open positions held by a trader.
Nonfarm payrolls - number of employees on the payroll (excluding agricultural sector).
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Net position
The value of the position subtracting the initial cost of setting up the position. For example, if 100 options where purchased for $1 each and the option is currently trading for $9, the value of the net position is $900 - $100 = $800.
The net position arising from all deposit and loan transactions in a given currency.
Deposit dealings:
Money Market operations.
Difference = Net position of Large Speculators - Net position of Commercials
Take note that if large speculators are extremely long, this would imply that commercial traders are extremely short. This would result in a positive figure.
Scalp: Purchasing and selling in equal amounts so there is no net position at the end of the trading day.
Schwarz-a-tron: A dedicated computer system for options calculations and simulations.
net position The difference between total open long and open short positions in a given security held by an individual. Net Present Value Abbreviated as NPV, which refers to the present value of an investment's future...
Backspread A spread strategy in which the net position has more long options than short ones. To create a call backspread you might sell one lower strike call and buy two higher strike calls.
Net Position : The number of futures contracts bought or sold which have ...
Net Worth : Amount of assets which exceed liabilities; May also be known ...
Netting : A process that enables institutions to settle only their net po...
report for most traders is the change in net positions of the commercial hedgers. Why? Because studies show that commercials hold a superior record to other trading groups in forecasting significant market moves.
After the last leg has been closed out the net position is square.
These carries would usually be traded with an outright three months trade as the basis leg with the multiple legs netting off the three months position of the carry thus giving an ...
Therefore I had bought one and sold 2, so the net position was that I was short one contract.
The field on Bulletins where the net position is recapped. Also, notes and other trade management suggestions are presented here.
Time Stamp. This area indicates the hour and minute in Central Time that any particular signal was generated.
Net Position : The number of futures contracts bought or sold which have ...
Netting : A process that enables institutions to settle only their net po...
Neural networks : Computer systems that recognize patterns. They may be u...
Opening Transaction
A trade which adds to the net position of an investor. An opening buy transaction adds more long securities to the account. An opening sell transaction adds more short securities. See also Closing Transaction.
Sellers - this value tells us how many of these institutional owners are selling shares of the company's stock, and how many shares they sold.
Net Position Change - finally, ...
Scalp: In commodities, purchasing and selling equal amounts so there is no net position at the end of the trading day; ...
The combined trading status and activity for your account(s), that is, your account value, securities and equity, net positions, and the closing amount (total profit and loss over all your positions).
Netting. A process that enables institutions to settle only their net positions with one another at the end of the day, in a single transaction, not trade by trade.
In the context of general equities, Block trade that matches Buy or Sell orders/interests, sparing the Block trader any Inventory risk (no Net position and hence none available for additional customers). Natural. Antithesis of open.
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Summary: An overview of your trading status that includes things such as equity levels, net positions, P+L and account values. The summary also displays available margin.
How do they do it? The largest market makers execute with dealer intervention, using subjective information or net positions to manage their own book of business.
This is the exchange where the bulk of the currency futures trading takes place worldwide. Net positions on the exchange are compiled each week and reported in the Commitments of Traders report on Friday afternoons.
Ladder
Dealers analysis of the forward book or deposit book showing every existing deal by maturity date, and the net position at each future date arising.
Technical condition of a market
Demand and supply factors affecting price, in particular, the net position, either long or short, of the dealer community.
Novation is necessary in clearinghouse arrangements because the direct obligation to pay one of the participants is typically replaced with an obligation to pay an overall net position to the clearinghouse.
In simple terms the manager starts with $100 and invests it in shares of ABC. He then short sells $30 of shares in XYZ (a stock he thinks will fall in value) and invests the $30 proceeds in ABC. The net position is long $130 ABC short $30 XYX hence ...
The mark-to-market method values the trader`s book at the end of each working day using the closing market rates or revaluation rates. Any profit or loss is booked and the trader will start the next day with a net position.
The interbank market would have a stable income from the market makers in case all trades were offset. In case the market maker considers the net positions of its clients to be quite insecure it usually applies offsetting.
 See also: Position, Market, Trading, Future, Contract
  
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