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A Block Trading Facility, or BTF for short, is a special thing that some futures exchanges offer. A futures exchange is a place where people buy and sell agreements to get stuff in the future for a set price. These agreements are called futures contracts. How a BTF works A BTF lets two people or…
Block trades are really big trades of stocks or bonds. They are much bigger than normal trades that regular people make. A block trade has to be at least 10,000 shares of stock. That’s a lot! Sometimes the cut-off is even higher, like 20,000 shares. Banks and big financial companies are the ones who do…
Block order exposure systems are a thing some stock markets use. They help buyers and sellers trade big chunks of stocks. We call these big chunks “block orders.” The systems show the price people want for their block orders. This helps buyers and sellers find each other. The United Kingdom has these systems. They use…
Blind brokering is when a broker sets up a deal between people but doesn’t tell each side who the other one is. Even after everything is signed and done, the broker keeps it a secret. They’re supposed to be the agent in the middle, but really they’re acting more like the boss. How Blind Brokering…
A blind bid pool of stocks purchase happens when someone buys a group of stocks together without knowing exactly which companies they are buying. The person selling the stocks gives some basic info about the total value and trading volume of the stocks. This allows people interested in buying to offer a price that is…
Blended finite risk is a special type of insurance or reinsurance. It puts together different kinds of insurance coverage. One or more of the coverage types uses something called a “finite risk” setup. Multiple Kinds of Coverage See, regular insurance usually only covers one kind of risk. Like your car insurance. It just protects you…
A blanket insurance policy is a kind of insurance that covers a bunch of different dangers, which are called “named perils”. When you get a blanket policy, it sets one total limit for how much money you can get if something bad happens. It doesn’t say the most you can get for each thing that…
A blanket limit is the most money an insurance company will pay out in a specific place. Insurance companies set blanket limits. They do it when they sell insurance policies. Blanket limits are important. They keep insurance companies from losing too much money. Insurance companies don’t want to go broke! Blanket limits change how much…
Blank check preferred stock means special shares a company can give out whenever it wants to stop someone else from taking over the company. The company’s board of directors gets to decide when to do this on their own. How Blank Check Preferred Stock Works When a company gives out these special preferred shares, two…
A binary-barrier option is a special kind of option. It is a mix between two other types of options: barrier options and binary options. Binary-barrier options are also called American binary options or one-touch options. When you buy a binary-barrier option, you can get a set amount of cash or assets if the price of…
