Helicopter Drop Helicopter Money

• A “helicopter drop” (or helicopter money) is a metaphor for directly increasing the money supply to boost spending—originally coined by Milton Friedman and…

Held To Maturity Htm Securities

Held-to-maturity (HTM) securities are debt investments a company (or individual) intends and has the ability to hold until their contractual maturity date. They are…

Held Order

Key takeaways – A held order is an instruction to a broker to execute a trade immediately at prevailing market prices; it leaves little…

Held For Trading Security

A held‑for‑trading security is a debt or equity investment acquired with the primary intent of selling it in the near term—typically within one year—to…

Held By Production Clause

A held‑by‑production (HBP) clause is a provision in an oil & gas (or other mineral) lease that extends the lease beyond its fixed primary…

Heir

Key takeaways – An heir is a person entitled by law to inherit from someone who dies intestate (without a valid will). Heirs are…

Heikin Ashi Technique

• Heikin‑Ashi (HA) is a method of building candlestick charts that smooths price data by averaging current and prior-period values. The smoothing reduces “noise,”…

Hedonic Pricing

Hedonic pricing is an econometric method that decomposes the market price of a differentiated good into the implicit prices of its characteristics. The idea…

Hedonic Regression

Key takeaways – Hedonic regression decomposes a product’s market price (or demand) into implicit prices for its characteristics (attributes). – It’s widely used in…

Hedging Transaction

Key takeaways – A hedging transaction is a tactical market action intended to reduce or manage the risk of loss from a specific exposure…