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  2. Credit enhancement - Wikipedia

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    The excess spread is the difference between the interest rate received on the underlying collateral and the coupon on the issued security. It is typically one of the first defenses against loss. Even if some of the underlying loan payments are late or default, the coupon payment can still be made.

  3. What is buying power in investing? - AOL

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    The amount of liquidity you have available to buy securities is called buying power. It’s also known as excess equity, and refers not only to the cash available for buying assets but also the ...

  4. Option-adjusted spread - Wikipedia

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    For an MBS, the word "option" in option-adjusted spread relates primarily to the right of property owners, whose mortgages back the security, to prepay the mortgage amount. Since mortgage borrowers will tend to exercise this right when it is favourable for them and unfavourable for the bond-holder, buying an MBS implicitly involves selling an ...

  5. Spread trade - Wikipedia

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    In finance, a spread trade (also known as a relative value trade) is the simultaneous purchase of one security and sale of a related security, called legs, as a unit.Spread trades are usually executed with options or futures contracts as the legs, but other securities are sometimes used.

  6. Credit spread (options) - Wikipedia

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    It is designed to make a profit when the spreads between the two options narrows. Investors receive a net credit for entering the position, and want the spreads to narrow or expire for profit. In contrast, an investor would have to pay to enter a debit spread. In this context, "to narrow" means that the option sold by the trader is in the money ...

  7. Box spread - Wikipedia

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    Profit diagram of a box spread. It is a combination of positions with a riskless payoff. In options trading, a box spread is a combination of positions that has a certain (i.e., riskless) payoff, considered to be simply "delta neutral interest rate position".

  8. Butterfly (options) - Wikipedia

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    Payoff chart from buying a butterfly spread. Profit from a long butterfly spread position. The spread is created by buying a call with a relatively low strike (x 1), buying a call with a relatively high strike (x 3), and shorting two calls with a strike in between (x 2).

  9. Credit valuation adjustment - Wikipedia

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    A Credit valuation adjustment (CVA), [a] in financial mathematics, is an "adjustment" to a derivative's price, as charged by a bank to a counterparty to compensate it for taking on the credit risk of that counterparty during the life of the transaction.