In trading parlance, "getting closer to home" means reining in the risk, which in this case meant either getting rid of the mortgage-backed securities or hedging the positions so that if they declined in value, the hedges would counteract the loss with an equivalent gain.
What we'd call, in stock trading parlance, a "dead cat bounce".
The "mid-list" in trade publishing parlance is a bit like the middle class in American politics: Anything below it is rarely mentioned in polite company.
Members of this site can choose to reveal their stock trades to each other, and any member may adopt — or in eToro parlance, "copy" — the trades of any other.
This kind of deal is known, in Wall Street parlance, as a "negative-carry" trade, and, as Zuckerman writes, negative-carry trades are a "maneuver that investment pros detest almost as much as high taxes and coach-class seating".
Subsequent inventors of flying cars — or, in the parlance of the trade, "roadable aircraft" — haven't fared much better.
In the parlance of the trade, he was a "bot herder" who offered his "robot network" for hire to a company in the Netherlands, which wanted to covertly install its advertising software.
Then there was Mr. Rogow's explanation of the Palm Beach County rules that count a vote when the chad is at least partially removed from the punch-card ballot, but not when the ballot is indented or "pregnant" in the parlance of the trade.
In the parlance of the trade, it "monetises peer-2-many" recommendations and may well amplify social influence for brands.
They've succeeded by attracting large audiences while keeping editorial costs low, often by rereporting or commenting on the journalism produced at great cost by newspapers and other "old media" companies–"aggregating," in the parlance of the trade.
