The act of selling or buying an asset-based on current (spot) prices, with settlement taking place two days later.
Spot market
More terms under S
- Scalp
- Settlement Price
- Short
- Speculator
- Spot
- Spreading
- Stop Order
- SEC
- Selling Rate
- Selling Short
- Short Position
- Simple Moving Average (SMA)
- Slippage
- Society for World-Wide Interbank (SWIFT)
- Sovereign Risk
- Speculation
- Spread
- Stagflation
- Sterling
- Stochastic oscillator
- Stop price
- Swap
- Swiss National Bank (SNB)
- Swissy
- Systematic risk
Part of the Trading glossary. Definitions are general explanations, not investment advice.