Options Trading Glossary

Description: Options Glossary, Facilitation, Fade,Fair Market Value,Fair Value

Facilitation

The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions. Listed options may be used to offset part of the risk assumed by the trader who is facilitating the large block order.

Fade

Selling a rising price or buying a falling price.

Fair Market Value

The value of an asset under normal conditions.

Fair Value

Normally, a term used to describe the worth of an option or futures contract as determined by a mathematical model. Also sometimes used to indicate intrinsic value.

Fast Markets

A declaration that market conditions, in the futures pit, are so disorderly temporarily to the extent that floor brokers are not held responsible for the execution of orders.

Fence

A protective strategy in which a written call and a long put are taken against a previously owned long stock position. The options may have the same strike price or different strike prices and the expiration months may or may not be the same. For example, if the investor previously purchased XYZ Corporation at $46 and it rose to $62, a 'collar' involving the purchase of a May 60 put and the writing of a May 65 call could be established as a way of protecting some of the unrealized profit in the XYZ Corporation stock position. The reverse is a long call combined with a written put that might also be used if the investor has previously established a short stock position in XYZ Corporation.

Fill

An executed order.

Fill or Kill

Placing an order to buy or sell an exact number of units or none at all.

Fill Order

An order that must be filled or canceled immediately.

Fill-or-kill order (FOK)

A type of option order which requires that the order be executed completely or not at all. A fill-or-kill order is similar to an all-or-none (AON) order. The difference is that if the order cannot be completely executed (i.e., filled in its entirety) as soon as it is announced in the trading crowd, it is to be 'killed' (i.e., cancelled) immediately. Unlike an AON order, a FOK order cannot be used as part of a GTC order.

Financial Instruments

The term used for debt instruments.

Fixed Delta

A delta figure that does not change with the change in the underlying. A futures contract has a fixed delta of plus or minus 100.

FLEX Options

Exchange traded equity or index options, where the investor can specify within certain limits, the terms of the options, such as exercise price, expiration date, exercise type, and settlement calculation.

Float

The number of shares outstanding of a particular common stock.

Floor Broker

A broker on the exchange floor who executes the orders of public customers or other investors who do not have physical access to the trading area. It is a trader on an exchange floor who executes trading orders for other people.

Floor Ticket

A summary of the information on an order ticket.

Floor Trader

An exchange member on the trading floor who buys and sells for his or her own account.

Fluctuation

A variation in the market price of a security.

Front Month

The first expiration month in a series of months.

Fundamental Analysis

A method of analyzing the prospects of a security by observing accepted accounting measures such as earnings, sales, assets, dividends, management, products, services and so on.

Fungibility

Interchangeability resulting from standardization. Options listed on national exchanges are fungible, while over-the-counter options generally are not. Classes of options listed and traded on more than one national exchange are referred to as multiple-listed / multiple-traded options.

Futures

All contracts covering the purchase and sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery. These orders are transacted on a commodity futures exchange.

Futures Contract

A standardized contract calling for the delivery of a specified quantity of a commodity at a specified date in the future.

Gamma

The rate of change in an option's delta for a one-unit change in the price of the underlying security.

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