Glossary
- APB Opinion No. 25
- American Option
- At-the-money
- Barone-Adesi and Whaley value
- Bear
- Bear market
- Bear spread
- Bearish
- Beta
- Binomial model
- Black-Scholes formula
- Black-Scholes model
- Black-Scholes value
- Bull
- Bull market
- Bull spread
- Bullish
- Call option
- Cliff vesting
- Closing price
- Common stock
- Compensation stock options
- Cum dividend
- Deep-in-the-money
- Deep-out-of-the-money
- Delta
- Dilutive
- Dividend
- Dividend yield
- EPS
- Earnings management
- Earnings per share
- Employee stock option
- European option
- Ex-dividend date
- Exercise
- Exercise price
- Expiration date
- FASB
- Fair value
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- GAAP
- Gamma
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Grant date
- Hedge
- IPO
- In the money
- In-the-money
- Insider
- Insider Trading
- Intrinsic value
- Investment Company Act of 1940
- LEAPS
- Liquidity Need
- Long position
- Margin
- Market-to-strike ratio
- Minimum value
- Moneyness
- Mutual fund
- NASD
- NASDAQ
- Near-the-money
- OTC
- Option pricing
- Out of the money
- Performance-based Vesting
- Preferred stock
- Premium
- Price/earnings ratio
- Primary Market
- Put option
- Reload feature
- Reload option
- Restricted stock
- Reverse vesting
- Risk averse
- Risk aversion
- Rule 10b5-1
- SEC
- SFAS No. 123
- Secondary Market
- Securities Act of 1933
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Shares under option
- Short position
- Split-adjusted
- Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123
- Stock split
- Strike price
- Theta
- Ticker
- Time to expiration
- Time value premium
- Traded stock option
- Trading range
- Under water
- Underlying security
- Unvested
- Vega
- Vest
- Vesting date
- Vesting schedule
- Volatility
- Writer
- Yield
- Yield Curve