Tag: data
Baltic Dry Index
DefinitionThe Baltic Dry Index, is issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax Timecharter...
Back Up The Truck
What is "backing up the truck?"
Backing up the truck refers to the purchase of a large position in a stock or other financial asset...
Backtesting
DefinitionBacktesting is a term used in modeling to refer to testing a predictive model on historical data. Backtesting is a type of retrodiction, and...
Balance Of Trade (BOT)
What is 'Balance Of Trade - BOT' The balance of trade (BOT) is the difference between a country's imports and its exports...
Balance Reporting
What is balance reporting and why is it important for businesses
Balance reporting is the process of creating a financial report that provides an overview...
Back Up
What is a back up and what does it mean for the securities market
A back up is a slang term for the movement in...
Back-Of-The-Envelope Calculation
What is 'Back-Of-The-Envelope Calculation' An informal mathematical computation, often performed on a scrap of paper such as an envelope. A back-of-the-envelope calculation...
Call Market
What is a 'Call Market' A call market is a type of market in which each transaction takes place at predetermined intervals...
Call Date
DefinitionA callable bond is a type of bond that allows the issuer of the bond to retain the privilege of redeeming the bond at...
Standard Deviation
In mathematics, standard deviation is the degree of the dispersion from a set of data’s mean. The SD is higher when the data is...