Abbreviations Flashcards
A
Offer (Ask) - Price offering terminology when trading
ACC
Accepted - Term used in reference give-up transactions, accepted by the claiming firm
ACS
Allocation Claim System - A CME system used by firms involved in the allocation and claiming of five-up transactions. Many firms also use one of the middleware systems available to automate this process (GL Clearvision, Emos, ATEO)
ACSSS
American Council of State Savings Supervisors - Part of State Liaison Committee (SLC), along with CSBS and NASCUS
AD
Australian Dollar - FX currency
ADN
Alternate Delivery Notice
ADV
Average Daily Volume - the average amount of contracts traded in any given product
AEM
All employee meeting
AML
Anti-money Laundering - related to the ‘Know Your Customer” policies
ANC
Adjusted Net Capital
AON
All or None - a style of order designed to fill the complete quantity, not partially fill it
APN
Accept Pending - A designation/message on a give-up transaction indicating the current status as pending. It will remain this way until the claiming firm rejects or accepts the transaction
APS
Average Price System - A System used by firms/traders to group a series of trades made up of the same criteria (buy or sell of the same contract) to obtain a single average price across the whole group. Frequently used by fund managers to ensure all accounts receive the same price
ARR
Allocation Reversal Request - A designation/message on a give-up transaction indicating the current status as reversal requested. It will remain in this status until the executing firm accepts or rejects the reversal transaction. This may occur because of bad price allocated, allocated to the wrong firm, incorrect buy/sell code, etc
AS A/C
Asset Account
ASEF
Alternate Swaps Execution Facility
ATIS
A Thorn in my Side - A back office proprietary bookkeeping system, orginally developed by O’Connor & Sons
ATM
At the Money - term used to describe a position instructions to exercise
ATS
Alternative strike price which is the same as the underlying settlement price. In this situation the position would not be automatically exercised, client/firm must submit specific Trading Systems
AUD
Australian Dollar - FX currency
B
Bid - price offering terminology when trading
BAU
Business as usual
BBH
Brown Brothers Harriman - A settlement bank used by CME Group clients
BCP
Business Continuity Planning - Group responsible for all Disastor Recovery (DR) planning within CME Group