IPO oversubscription occurs when the total number of shares bid for by investors exceeds the total shares on offer, indicating demand far outstrips supply.
An Offer for Sale (OFS) is a stock-exchange mechanism that lets existing promoters or large shareholders sell their shares directly to the public without the company raising fresh capital.
OPEC is a group of oil-exporting nations that collectively manages crude oil production levels to influence global oil prices and market stability.
Open interest is the total number of outstanding derivative contracts - futures or options - that have not yet been settled or closed by an offsetting trade.
Option Greeks are mathematical measures that describe how an option's price changes in response to shifts in underlying price, time, volatility, and interest rates.
Option premium is the price paid by a buyer to an option seller, comprising two components - intrinsic value (real, exercise-based worth) and time value (the extra amount reflecting the possibility of future profit before expiry).
An options chain is a real-time table showing all available strike prices for a contract, with their corresponding call and put premiums, open interest, volume, and implied volatility.
An option is a contract giving the buyer the right - but not the obligation - to buy or sell an underlying asset at a predetermined price before or on a specified expiry date.
An order type is the instruction you give your broker specifying exactly how and when your buy or sell trade should be executed in the stock market.
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