Similar financial terms
How are you making sex?What is your market in a particular stock?
Dog-and-pony show
Simple, planned presentation, too often dog-and-pony shows insult the intelligence of their audience.
"However, after a dog-and-pony show purporting to consider new missions, Clinton and O'Leary have joined two factions in Congress--unreconstituted Cold Warriors and delegates seeking to preserve weapons spending in their districts--to endorse continuing the same costly, and ecologically disastrous mission despite the lack of a significant nuclear threat."
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Wild Card Play
The right, but not the obligation, to deliver on a futures contract at the closing price for a period of time after the trading close.
Devil's advocate (let me play)
Ponder or predict criticism of a project as a means to improve the quality of the proposal.
"In addition to being an effective role model, the new strategic leader needs at least one good alter ego, devil's advocate , or contrarian to avoid getting into a rut."
Planning Review, Sept. 10, 1994, p. 6.
