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Opening Price: The range of prices at which the first bids and offers are made or the first transactions are completed on an exchange.

Opening: The first transaction in each security or commodity when trading begins for the day occurs at what's known as its opening, or opening price. Sometimes the opening price on one day is the sam . . . View Full Definition

Closing Price: The closing price of a stock, bond, option, or futures contract is the last trading price before the exchange or market on which it is traded closes for the day. With after-hours trading, ho . . . View Full Definition

Price Persistence: Related: Relative strength

Price Range: The interval between the high and low prices over which a stock has traded over a particular period of time.

Price Risk: The risk that the value of a security (or a portfolio) will decline in the future. Or, a type of mortgage pipeline risk created in the production segment when loan terms are set for the borr . . . View Full Definition

Price Of Admission: Used in the context of general equities. Cost to become a player in a stock in an inordinately aggressive market (i.e., locking on one side, size or price concessions); trader becomes aggres . . . View Full Definition

Price Leadership: A price charged by the dominant producer that becomes the price adopted by all the other producers.

Price Index: Current price expressed as a proportion to the same price in an earlier time period, commonly called the base period. Monthly price indexes computed by the National Agricultural Statistics S . . . View Full Definition

Price Spread: An options strategy that involves buying and selling two options on the same security with the same expiration month, but with different exercise prices.