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Greeks
greeks
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(finance) A set of measures showing how sensitive an option's price is to different market factors, each traditionally named after a Greek letter.
"Traders check the greeks — delta, gamma, theta — before adjusting their options positions."
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Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA finance term for risk measures used in options trading, so called because they are named after letters like delta and theta.
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This is specialist financial jargon; outside trading contexts, "Greeks" simply means people from Greece.
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Traders check the _____ — delta, gamma, theta — before adjusting their options positions.