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Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using depositors' money) to make a profit for itself. [1]
A financial firm is said to practice proprietary trading if it invests its own money to make profits for itself, instead of earning commissions by trading on a client's behalf. While the firm’s ...
A trade secret is a form of intellectual property comprising confidential information that is not generally known or readily ascertainable, derives economic value from its secrecy, and is protected by reasonable efforts to maintain its confidentiality. [1] [2] [3] Well-known examples include the Coca-Cola formula and the recipe for Kentucky ...
The word "trader" appeared as early as 1863 in a universal dictionary as "trading man." [2] Traders work for financial institutions as foreign exchange or securities dealers in the cash market and in the futures market, or for their own account as proprietary traders. [3] They also include stock exchange traders, but not stockbrokers or lead ...
In such circumstances, trading at market price between locations can benefit both locations. Different types of traders may specialize in trading different kinds of goods; for example, the spice trade and grain trade have both historically been important in the development of a global, international economy. A busy market in Mile 12, Lagos, Nigeria
"Front running" is sometimes used informally for a broker's tactics related to trading on proprietary information before its clients have been given the information. In insurance sales, front running is a practice in which agents "leak" information (usually false) to consumers about a competitor insurance company that leads the consumer to ...
Chicago Board of Trade Corn Futures market, 1993 Oil traders, Houston, 2009. A commodity market is a market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit and sugar.
Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the ...