Deal Ticket
Categories: Banking, Regulations
In Chicago, there’s a bar in the shadow of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Its name is Cactus, and its motto is "Don't Drink and Trade."
That’s a good lesson in life.
If you’ve ever had too much to drink, and you check your credit card, you might see a big tab. So you call up the bar, and you ask for an itemized list of everything you drank.
You don't believe that you had a Mai Tai, two shots of Jaeger, 12 Bud Lights, and some Absinthe out of a crystal skull. But there it all is...itemized. And they have a copy of a receipt that you signed.
The stock market is a lot like a bar. You make mistakes. There are no takebacks, and there’s always evidence that you executed a deal.
That’s why, like a bar tab, a Deal Ticket exists.
The deal ticket, also called a trading ticket, keeps full tabs of the asset traded, volumes, prices, and dates and times of the deal. Trading houses and brokerages, which execute a lot of deals, will keep these deal tickets in a massive transaction log.
The deal tickets also provide information on related commissions, the order type, the order duration, and the type of transaction (whether it was a buy, sell, short, or buy to close).
That way, when you wake up in the morning and ice your head from a long day of trading, you’ll have a solid piece of evidence.
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Finance, a la shmoop. What is a CUSIP number? Close that's a Cusack number
867-53-09, yeah we know there. So yeah you know when you go to the grocery
store and the cashier swipes your apples eight times across that little bar code [Apple being scanned]
reader thingy and it doesn't work again and again and again and then she finally [Error coming up on the screen]
pulls back the plastic from where the Apple was tagged hunts for her glasses [Cashier putting on her glasses]
and then visually finds the number associated with that Apple and then just
manually types it in. Well that's the fruit equivalent of a CUSIP number [Guy talking in a supermarket]
A CUSIP number is well just that only applied to securities, stocks, bonds even
muni bonds. CUSIP stands for committee on uniforms security identification [The meaning of each letter is shown]
procedures, and is basically just the serial number system of securities, but [CUSIP definition written on a 100 dollar bill]
has nine digits, the first six represent the original issuer of the security like
coca-cola shares when it went public a gazillion years ago. Then the next two [The fix 6 digits are highlighted]
characters refer to that type of security at hand like is it a basic
equity bond, muni bond and the ninth digit is riboflavin yeah it's just there
to be sure the other digits are all accurate and assures that there's no [The 3 digits meaning are shown]
replication in any of the other CUSIP index number sets. So yeah CUSIP numbers
make the securities easier to track because it's awfully hard to get a
microchip into one of them. [Microchip pulled out of a bond certificate]