Principal-agent relationship
A situation that can be modeled as one person, an agent, who acts on the behalf of another person, the principal. |
Similar financial terms
Put-call parity relationshipThe relationship between the price of a put and the price of a call on the same underlying security with the same expiration date, which prevents arbitrage opportunities. Holding the stock and buying a put will deliver the exact payoff as buying one call and investing the present value (PV) of the exercise price. The call value equals C=S+P-PV(k).
Price-volume relationship
A relationship espoused by some technical analysts that signals continuing rises and falls in security prices based on accompanying changes in volume traded.
