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Domestic Market
Definition: A nation's internal market representing the mechanisms for issuing and trading securities of entities domiciled within that nation. Compare external market and foreign market.
Domestic Series
Definition: Nonmarketable interest and noninterest-bearing securities issued periodically by the Treasury to the Resolution Funding Corporation (RFC) for investment of funds authorized under section 21B of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.
Dominant Future
Definition: That future having the largest amount of open interest.
Don't Fight The Tape
Definition: Phrase advising not to trade against the market trend. If stock prices are rising, do not sell.
Don't Know (DK, DKed)
Definition: "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. Also, an unscrupulous claim made by one party denying that the trade had been agreed to and made after the trade goes adversely against that party.
Donee
Definition: One who receives a gift (in reference to beneficiary).
Donor
Definition: One who gives property or assets to someone else through the vehicle of a trust.
DOP
Definition: The ISO 4217 currency code for Dominican Republic Peso.
Double Auction Market
Definition: Systems by which listed securities are bought and sold through brokers on the securities exchanges, as distinguished from the OTC market, where trades are negotiated. Unlike the conventional auction with one auctioneer and many buyers, double auction markets consist of many sellers and many buyers.
Double Auction System
Definition: A market consisting of many sellers and many buyers, as opposed to a conventional auction with one market maker and many buyers.
Double Bottom
Definition: A term used in technical analysis to refer to the drop of a stock's price, a rebound, and then a drop back to the same level as the original drop.
Double Dip
Definition: Used for listed equity securities. Dividend roll in which the "dividend capturer" already owns the stock cum dividend. Also used when tax depreciation is accessed in two countries concurrently.
Double Hedging
Definition: As used by the CFTC, it implies a situation where a trader holds a long position in the futures market in excess of the speculative position limit as an offset to a fixed price sale, even though the trader has an ample supply of the commodity on hand to fill all sales commitments.
Double Taxation
Definition: Government taxation of the same money twice; specifically, earnings taxed first at the corporate level and then again as dividends at the stockholder level.
Double Top
Definition: A term used in technical analysis to refer to the rise of a stock's price, a drop, and then a rise back to the same level as the original rise.
Double Up
Definition: A stock buying strategy that doubles the risk when the price moves in the opposite direction from the direction the investor hoped for. For example, an investor with confidence in ABC buys 1000 shares at $100 and another 1000 shares when the price declines to $90.
Double Witching Day
Definition: The last trading day before expiry of options and futures on the same underlying asset, resulting in a variety of arbitrage strategies to close out positions.
Double-barreled
Definition: Describes backing of the principal and interest of a smaller municipal revenue bond by a larger municipal entity.
Double-declining-balance Depreciation
Definition: Method of accelerated depreciation.
Double-declining-balance Depreciation Method (DDB)
Definition: An accounting methodology in which the depreciation rate used is double the rate used under the straight-line method. In addition, the rate is applied to the full purchase cost of the asset, whereas under the straight-line method the rate is applied to the cost net of salvage value.
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