Weighted Alpha

Weighted alpha is a momentum-style metric that summarizes a security’s performance over a chosen lookback (commonly one year) while giving more influence to recent…

Weighted

Summary Weighted means assigning different levels of importance (weights) to components that make up a total or indicator so that some components affect the…

Weighted Average Remaining Term Wart

Key takeaway – WART (also called weighted average maturity, WAM, in some contexts) measures the average remaining time to maturity of the assets in…

Wei

Key takeaways – Wei is the smallest (atomic) unit of ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain. – 1 ether = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000…

Weekly Premium Insurance

• Weekly premium insurance (also called industrial life insurance) required the insured to pay small amounts—typically weekly—in exchange for life or disability coverage. –…

Weekend Effect

The “weekend effect” (also called the Monday effect) is a recurring anomaly in stock market returns: average returns on Mondays tend to be lower…

Wedge

A wedge is a price-chart pattern used in technical analysis formed by two converging trend lines that connect a series of highs and lows.…

Web Syndication

Web syndication (also called content syndication) is a licensing/ distribution arrangement in which one website (the content owner) grants another site (the distributor) the…

Weather Future

A weather future is a standardized financial contract whose payoff is tied to a measurable weather index (most commonly temperature). Instead of delivering a…

Weather Derivative

A weather derivative is a financial contract that pays out based on the realized value of a weather-related index (temperature, rainfall, snowfall, wind, etc.).…