Glossary of Stock Market Terms

Browse Terms By Number or Letter:
Financial Terms By: O
"O.K. to cross"
O
OAS
Oath of Inspectors
OB
Objective (mutual funds)
Objective probability
Obligation
Obligation bond
Obligor
Observational Noise
OCC
Ocean bill of lading
Octillion
Octodecillion
Octogintillion
Octononagintillion
Octooctogintillion
Octoquadragintillion
Octoquinquagintillion
Octoseptuagintillion
Octosexagintillion
Octotrigintillion
Octovigintillion
Odd lot
Odd-Lot Buy Back
Odd-lot dealer
Odd-Lot Resale
Odd-lot short-sale ratio
Odd-lot theory
OECD
OEX index
Off-balance-sheet financing
Off-board
Off-budget Federal entities
Off-floor order
Offer
Offer price
Offer wanted
Offering date
Offering memorandum
Offering scale
Offering statement
Offerings
Office of Financial Research
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
Official reserves
Official settlements balance (overall balance)
Official statement
Official unrequited transfers
Offlake
Offset
Offset Loan
Offshore finance subsidiary
Offshore fund
OFR
OID
Old-line factoring
Oligopoly
Oligopsony
OM
OM Stockholm AB
Omitted dividend
OMN
Omnibus account
Omnibus Proxy
OMR
OMT
On
On a clean up
On balance
On board
On Board Ocean Bill of Lading
On Carriage
On the close order
On the money
On the opening order
On the print
On the run
On the sidelines
On the take
On the tape
On-floor order
One-decision stock
One-factor APT
One-man picture
One-share-one-vote rule
One-way market
OPD
OPEC
Open
Open account
Open book
Open contracts
Open depending on the floor
Open interest
Open on the print
Open order (good-till-cancelled, GTC order)
Open Policy
Open position
Open repo
Open up
Open-end credit
Open-end fund
Open-end lease
Open-end mortgage
Open-market operation
Open-market purchase operation
Open-market rates
Open-outcry
Opening
Opening Bank
Opening price
Opening purchase
Opening sale
Opening transaction
Operating Assets
Operating cash flow
Operating cycle
Operating expenses
Operating exposure
Operating in the red
Operating lease
Operating leverage
Operating profit (or loss)
Operating profit margin
Operating rate
Operating ratios
Operating risk
Operationally efficient market
Operations department
Operations research (OR)
Opex
Opinion shopping
OPM
Oporto
Opportunity cost of capital
Opportunity costs
Opportunity line
Opportunity set
Optimal contract
Optimal portfolio
Optimal redemption provision
Optimization approach to indexing
Optimum capacity
Optimum Leverage Ratio
Option
Option account
Option agreement
Option cycle
Option elasticity
Option holder
Option margin
Option mutual fund
Option not to deliver
Option premium
Option price
Option Pricing Curve
Option seller
Option series
Option spread
Option writer
Option-adjusted spread (OAS)
Optional dividend
Optional payment bond
Options backdating
Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
Options contract
Options contract multiple
Options on physicals
OR
Or better
Oral contract
Order
Order Book Official
Order imbalance
Order Parameter
Order protection rule
Order room
Order splitting
Order ticket
Ordering Costs
Ordinary income
Ordinary interest
Ordinary shares
Organic growth
Organization chart
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Organized exchange
Original face value
Original issue discount debt (OID debt)
Original Issue Discount securities (OIDS)
Original margin
Original maturity
Originate-to-distribute
Originate-to-hold
Origination
Originator
Orphan stock
Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE)
OSE
Oslo Stock Exchange
OTC
OTC Bulletin Board
OTC margin stock
OTCBB
Other capital
Other current assets
Other income
Other long-term liabilities
Other sources
Other than temporary impairment (OTTI)
OTM
OTTI
Out
Out of line
Out of print
Out of the name
Out there
Out with
Out-of-favor industry or stock
Out-of-the-money option
Outlays
Outperform
Outright Monetary Transactions or OMT
Outright quote
Outright rate
Outside director
Outside market
Outside of you
Outsourcing
Outstanding
Outstanding Dividends
Outstanding share capital
Outstanding shares
Over-the-counter (OTC)
Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board
Over-the-Counter Option
Overage
Overall FTC limitation
Overall market price coverage
Overallotment
Overbought
Overbought-oversold indicator
Overcapitalization
Overdraft
Overdraft checking account
Overfunded pension plan
Overhang
Overhanging Bond
Overhead
Overheating
Overinvestment
Overissue
Overlap the market
Overlapping debt
Overlay strategy
Overnight delivery risk
Overnight position
Overnight repo
Overperform
Overreaching
Overreaction hypothesis
Overrun
Overshooting
Oversold
Oversubscribed issue
Oversubscription
Oversubscription privilege
Overtrading
Overvalued
Overweight
Overwithholding
Overwriting
Own foreign offices
Owner's equity
Ownership-specific advantages