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Self-supporting Debt
Definition: Bonds sold to finance a project that will produce enough revenue through tolls or other charges to retire the debt . See: revenue bond.
Self-tender Offer
Definition: A company that tenders for its own shares.
Sell Limit Order
Definition: Conditional trading order that indicates that a security may be sold at the designated price or higher. Related: Buy limit order.
Sell Off
Definition: Sale of securities under pressure. See: Dumping.
Sell Order
Definition: An order that may take many different forms by an investor to a broker to sell a particular stock, bond, option, future, mutual fund, or other holding.
Sell Out
Definition: Liquidation of a margin account after a customer has failed to bring an account to a required level by producing additional equity after a margin call.
Sell Plus Order
Definition: Market or limit order to sell a stated amount of stock provided that the price to be obtained is not lower than the last sale if the last sale was a plus, or zero plus tick, and is not lower than the last sale plus the minimum fractional change in the stock if the last sale was a minimum or zero minimum tick. (In a limit order, sale cannot be lower than the limit, regardless of tick.)
Sell The Book
Definition: Used for listed equity securities. Order to a broker by the holder of a large quantity of shares of a security to sell all that can be absorbed at the current bid price. The term derives from the specialist's book - the record of all the buy and sell orders members have placed in the stock one handles. In this scenario, the buyers potentially include those in the specialist's book, the specialist for its own account, and broker-dealers.
Sell-side Analyst
Definition: A financial analyst who works for a brokerage firm and whose recommendations are passed on to the brokerage firm's customers. Also called Wall Street analyst.
Seller Financing
Definition: Funding a purchase by a seller's loan to the buyer, the buyer takes full title to the property when the loan is fully repaid.
Seller's Call
Definition: Seller's Call, also referred to as call purchase, is the same as the buyer's call except that the seller has the right to determine the time to fix the price. See Buyer's Call.
Seller's Market
Definition: Market in which demand exceeds supply. As a result, the seller can dictate the price and the terms of sale.
Seller's Option
Definition: Delayed settlement/delivery in a transaction.
Seller's Points
Definition: In reference to a loan, seller's points consist of a lump sum paid by the seller to the buyer's creditor to reduce the cost of the loan to the buyer. This payment is either required by the creditor or volunteered by the seller, usually in a loan to buy real estate. Generally, one point equals one percent of the loan amount.
Selling Climax
Definition: A sudden drop in security prices as sellers dump their holdings.
Selling Concession
Definition: The discount underwriters offer the selling group on securities in a new issue.
Selling Dividends
Definition: Inducing a prospective customer tobuy shares in order to profit from a dividend scheduled in the near future.
Selling Group
Definition: All banks involved in selling or marketing a new issue of stock or bonds.
Selling Hedge (or Short Hedge)
Definition: Selling futures contracts to protect against possible decreased prices of commodities. See Hedging.
Selling On The Good News
Definition: A strategy of selling stock shortly after a company announces good news and the stock price rises. Investors believe that the price is as high as it can go and is on the brink of going down.
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