North Sea Brent Crude
North Sea Brent Crude refers to a crude oil that was drilled for and sourced in the North Sea. North Sea Brent Crude refined and sold to mostly European and UK end users. North Sea Brent Crude prices are quoted world wide as a reference point for crude oil prices in Europe. Energy futures traders in the USA and Europe will see a second type of crude More...
Non-Equity Options
Non-Equity Options are the tradable options contracts that have their value based on an underlying asset that is not equity or the price of a share of stock on a company. Non-Equity Options include the group of More...
NYMEX
The NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) refers to the New York, USA based exchange that specializes in physical commodity futures. The exchange is managed in two parts the NYMEX Division, where Petroleum Energy, More...
Neural Network
A Neural Network refers to the computer programs that are used by traders in automated trading systems. The concept of the Neural Network is that the programmed computer algorithm searches through large amounts More...
Net Option Premium
A Net Option Premium is a term that is associated with the costs of constructing an option strategy known as a synthetic option. In a synthetic option, a trader sells one option contract and simultaneously purchases More...
Net Long
Net Long refers to when a trader’s long positions in value terms exceed his short positions in value terms. The term Net Long refers to a trader’s overall positions in money terms. If a trader is Net Long, More...
Covered Call
A Covered Call is an option trading strategy in which the trader sells a Call option yet is long a corresponding number of shares of the underlying stock related to the Call option. The theory is that the Covered More...
Naked Call
A Naked Call is an options trading strategy in which the trader sells a Call option without having shares of the underlying stock in his brokerage account. In this case the Call Option would have a profit if the More...
Moving Average
A Moving Average is a measure of historical averages that uses a rolling calculation. In the case of the 200 day Moving Average, the prices of a security for the past 200 trading days are averaged. This average More...