flat investment & finance definition
- In
trading, a term used to indicate a market or a price that is neither rising or
falling. Low trading volumes often produce flat trading conditions.
- The
trading position of a trader who has sold all of his or her holdings and is
neither long or short.
See flat in Wall Street Words
- Of, relating to, or being a market maker's inventory position that is neither long nor short; that is, the inventory is zero.
- Of, relating to, or being a bond that trades without accrued interest. For example, bonds of a company in bankruptcy proceedings trade flat. A bond trading flat is indicated in bond transaction tables by the symbol f.
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