Traders expect a difficult day on Friday as the triple witching hour hits the market.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
Triple witching hour — is the last hour of the stock market trading session (3:00 4:00 P.M., New York Time) on the third Friday of every March, June, September, and December. Those days are the expiration of three kinds of securities:* Stock index futures. * Stock… … Wikipedia
triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading. [1985 90] * * * … Useful english dictionary
triple witching hour — The four times a year that the S&P futures contract expires at the same time as the S&P 100 index option contract and option contracts on individual stocks. It is the last trading hour on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December,… … Financial and business terms
triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading. [1985 90] * * * … Universalium
Triple witching hour — The four times a year that the S&P futures contract expires at the same time as the S&P 100 index option contract and option contracts on individual stocks. The New York Times Financial Glossary … Financial and business terms
triple witching hour — The third Friday of each March, June, September, and December, when stock index options, futures, and individual stock options all expire at the same time. This makes for very volatile trading conditions … Big dictionary of business and management
triple witching hour — tri′ple witch′ing hour n. bus the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme… … From formal English to slang
triple witching hour — /ˌtrɪp(ə)l wɪtʃɪŋ aυə/ noun a day when three major types of futures contract fall due at the same time COMMENT: In the USA, this is the last hour of trading on the third Friday of the months of March, June, September and December, when futures… … Dictionary of banking and finance
triple witching hour — noun The final hour of trading during which three types of derivatives contracts expire … Wiktionary
triple-witching — The simultaneous expiry of index futures, index options and individual stock options. Exchange Handbook Glossary * * * triple witching ˌtriple ˈwitching also ˌtriple ˈwitching ˌhour noun [singular] informal FINANCE a time on a financial market… … Financial and business terms
