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Time Deposit
Definition: Interest-bearing deposit at a savings institution that has a specific maturity. Related: Certificate of deposit.
Time Draft
Definition: Demand for payment at a stated future date.
Time Horizon
Definition: The period, usually expressed in years, for which an investor expects to hold an investment.
Time Order
Definition: Order that becomes a market or limited price order or is canceled at a specific time.
Time Premium
Definition: Also called time value, the amount by which an option price exceeds its intrinsic value. The value of an option beyond its current exercise value representing the optionholder's control until expiration, the risk of the underlying asset, and the riskless return.
Time Series Models
Definition: Systems that examine series of historical data; sometimes used as a means of technical forecasting, by examining moving averages.
Time Spread
Definition: The selling of a nearby option and buying of a more deferred option with the same strike price. Also called Horizontal Spread.
Time Spread Strategy
Definition: Buying and selling puts and calls with the same exercise price but different expiration dates, and trying to profit from the different premiums of the options.
Time To Maturity
Definition: The time remaining until a financial contract expires. Also called time until expiration.
Time Until Expiration
Definition: The time remaining until a financial contract expires. Also called time to maturity.
Time Value
Definition: Applies to derivative products. Portion of an option price that is in excess of the intrinsic value, due to the amount of volatility in the stock; sometime referred to as premium. Time value is positively related to the length of time remaining until expiration.
Time Value Of An Option
Definition: The portion of an option's premium that is based on the amount of time remaining until the expiration date of the option contract, and the idea that the underlying components that determine the value of the option may change during that time. Time value is generally equal to the difference between the premium and the intrinsic value. Related: In the money.
Time Value Of Money
Definition: The idea that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future, because the dollar received today can earn interest up until the time the future dollar is received.
Time Value Permium
Definition: The amount by which an option's total premium exceeds its intrinsic value.
Time-of-Day Order
Definition: This is an order that is to be executed at a given minute in the session. For example, "Sell 10 March corn at 12:30 p.m."
Time-series Analysis
Definition: Assessment of relationships between two or among more variables over periods of time.
Time-weighted Rate Of Return
Definition: Related: Geometric mean return
Time-Zone Arbitrage
Definition: A form of stale price arbitrage where the pricing discrepencies are due to the primary markets for the underlying securities being closed at the times that the fund is traded. Note that time zone arbitrage is sometimes mistakenly used if it were a pure synonym for stale price arbitrage. These are not synonyms since stale prices can also be due to illiquid stocks or bonds that are not traded frequently.
Timeliness
Definition: A source of competitive advantage that depends on being the first to enter a given market with a product or service.
Times-interest-earned Ratio
Definition: Earnings before interest and tax, divided by interest payments.
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