by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Better Alternative Trading System?The Better Alternative Trading System (BATS) is a stock exchange founded in 2005. BATS is based in the United States, it offers foreign exchange services to investors and traders as well as equities and options. The better...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is an Ask (Securities)?The ask price is used in the context of the trade of securities to describe the lowest price a seller is willing to accept before parting ways with a security. Is the price a seller will accept for the sale of a security. The ask price is...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is an Alternative Trading System?An alternative trading system (ATS) is a non-exchange trading platform that is approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Buy and sell orders are matched on this trading platform to find counterparties ready to...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is Black’s Model?The Blacks model is a mathematical model for pricing derivative instruments such as options contract, swaptions, bond options, and other interest-rate derivatives. The Blacks model is otherwise called Black-76, it was first presented in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is the Benjamin Method?The Benjamin Method is a formula used in investment to determine the intrinsic value of stocks in a bid to find assets that are undervalued to select the most profitable assets. The Benjamin Method is a value investing strategy which is...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is an Appraisal Ratio?An appraisal ratio can be used in different contexts to describe or measure the performance of a fund compared to the benchmark. The appraisal ratio also measures a mutual fund’s alpha relative to its risk. This ratio also measures the...
