What is a 'Halloween Strategy' A Halloween strategy is an investment technique in which an investor sells stocks before May 1 and refrains from reinvesting in the stock market until October 31, in order to increase capital...
What is 'Hardening' 1. A term used to describe a price of commodity or futures contracts that is gradually stabilizing. 2. A futures market that is slowly advancing in prices. Explaining 'Hardening' ...
What is 'Hard Stop' A price level that, if reached, will trigger an order to sell an underlying security. Hard stops are set at a constant price and are inherently good until cancelled. A hard stop is...
What is a Hard-To-Borrow List
A hard to borrow list is inventory utilized by brokerages to identify securities that are not available for borrowing for transactions that are short-sale. The hard-to-borrow list of a brokerage firm gives an up-to-date list...
What is 'Heating Degree Day - HDD' The number of degrees that a day's average temperature is below 65oFahrenheit (18o Celsius), the temperature below which buildings need to be heated. The price of weather derivatives traded in...
What is a ‘Harvest Strategy'
A harvest strategy is a business plan for reducing or completely eliminating investment in a particular product, brand, or business line because a company's management has determined that the expense of attempting to boost sales...
What is 'Hedge Clause' A provision included in published financial reports that indemnifies the author, or authors, against any responsibility for any errors, omissions, or oversights contained within the report. Hedge clauses can be found predominately in...
What is 'Hard Loan' A foreign loan that must be paid in the currency of a nation that has stability and a reputation abroad for economic strength (a hard currency). Explaining 'Hard Loan' For...
What is 'Harvard MBA Indicator' A long-term stock market indicator that evaluates the percentage of Harvard Business School graduates that accept "market sensitive" jobs in fields such as investment banking, securities sales & trading, private equity, venture...
DefinitionThe Heckscher–Ohlin theorem is one of the four critical theorems of the Heckscher–Ohlin model, developed by Swedish economist Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin. It states that a country will export goods that use its abundant factors intensively, and import...