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Scalping
Definition: Buying up the good IPOs.
Scattered
Definition: Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest.
Scenario Analysis
Definition: The use of horizon analysis to project total returns under different reinvestment rates and future market yields.
Schedule 13d
Definition: Disclosure form required when more than 5% of any class of equity securities in a publicly held corporation is purchased.
Schedule C
Definition: Describes membership requirements and procedures of NASD, in its bylaws.
Scheduled Cash Flows
Definition: The mortgage principal and interest payments due to be paid under the terms of the mortgage, not including possible prepayments.
Scorched-earth Policy
Definition: Often used in risk arbitrage. Any technique a company that has become the target of a takeover attempt uses to make itself unattractive to the acquirer. For example, it may agree to sell off its crown jewels, or schedule all debt to become due immediately after a merger.
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Score Match
Definition: System used to match financial records in a database by using a FICO score. Score Match contains offers such as credit cards and loans.
SCR
Definition: The ISO 4217 currency code for the Seychelles Rupee.
Screen Stocks
Definition: To analyze various stocks in search of stocks that meet predetermined criteria. For example, a simple value screen would sort all stocks by their price-to-book ratio and pick the stocks with the lowest ratios as candidates for the value portfolio.
Scrip
Definition: A temporary document that represents a portion of a share of stock, often issued after a stock split or spin-off.
Scripophily
Definition: Collecting stock and bond certificates for their scarcity, rather than for their value as securities.
SD
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for SUDAN.
SDD
Definition: The ISO 4217 currency code for the Sudanese Dinar.
SE
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for SWEDEN.
Search Costs
Definition: Costs associated with locating a counterparty to a trade, including explicit costs (such as advertising) and implicit costs (such as the value of time). Related: Information costs.
Seasonality Claims
Definition: Misleading sales pitches that one can earn large profits with little risk based on predictable seasonal changes in supply or demand, published reports or other well-known events.
Seasonally Adjusted
Definition: Mathematically adjusted by moderating a macroeconomic indicator (e.g., oil prices/imports) so that relative comparisons can be drawn from month to month all year.
Seasoned
Definition: In the case of equity, having gained a reputation for quality with the investing public and enjoying liquidity in the secondary market; in the case of convertibles, having traded for at least 90 days after issue in Europe, and thus available for sale legally to U.S. investors.
Seasoned Datings
Definition: Extended credit for customers who order goods in periods other than peak seasons.
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