Glossary
- Safety cushion
- Sale in the open market
- Saver's Allowance
- Scale for bonds
- Scale for shares
- Schatz future
- SDAX
- Second Quotation Board
- Secondary market
- Secondary purchase
- Sector fund
- Sector index
- Securities
- Securities account
- Securities exchange
- Securities Trading Act
- Seed phase
- Semiannual report (funds)
- Sensitivity (warrants)
- Settlement
- Share
- Share buy-back
- Share price
- Share register
- Shareholder
- Shareholder rights
- Shareholder value
- Shareholders' record
- Shareholder’s right to information
- Sharpe-Ratio
- Shell corporation
- Short position
- Short sale
- SMAX
- SME Growth Market
- SPAC
- Special fund
- Specialised fund
- Specialized fund
- Spot market
- Spread
- Spread certificate
- Squeeze-out
- Standard deviation
- Startup company
- Startup phase
- Steady
- Stock corporation
- Stock cycle
- Stock exchange
- Stock Exchange Act (Börsengesetz)
- Stock exchange monopoly
- Stock index
- Stock market
- Stock market analysis
- Stock market crash
- Stock option
- Stock option plan
- Stock price
- Stock split
- Stop-buy order
- Stop-limit order
- Stop-loss limit
- Stop-loss order
- Stop-market order
- Stop-sell order
- STOXX Europe 50
- STOXX®
- Strike price
- Subscription
- Subscription period
- Subscription rights
- Support buying
- Support Line
- SWAP
- Switch
- Syndicate
- Syndicate bank
- Synthetic bonds
Spread
A spread is the term given to the absolute or relative difference between the bid and ask limit of the issuer's quote.
The breadth of the spread is influenced, among other things, by the market situation and the terms of the warrant. The issuer defines the maximum, absolute or relative breadth of this spread for each of its securities. This maximum spread is the maximum bid-ask spread which the issuer will observe when entering quotes, irrespective of the market situation. It is therefore larger than the spread which the issuer normally enters, since it must also be observed in times of volatile market phases. The absolute spread actually entered by the issuer on average is posted as an effective spread as part of performance assessment. If a quote is entered with a spread which is broader than the predefined maximum spread, it will be rejected by Xetra®.
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