Account Settlement

  

Categories: Banking, Bonds, Metrics, Trading

When you "settle your accounts," you pay your bills. Never a bad idea.

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Finance: What is T+3?1 Views

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finance a la shmoop what is T plus 3 doesn't that sound like a new Arnold

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Schwarzenegger robot or uh like a new transformer Megatron or something yeah [police robot falls over]

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maybe not so that T here is time as in days and the three is um you know the

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number of days that is if you put in an order on Thursday with your stockbroker

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on a three-day holiday weekend call it dunno Labor Day weekend and your [calendar]

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particular purchase is a t +3 settlement type of purchase well it means that you [Settlement document]

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will have transacted on that Thursday but then you need to wait three business [calendar]

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days until that transaction is considered settled so in this case yeah

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we threw curveballs at your head there there was not only a weekend to deal [batter dodges curve ball]

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with but a holiday to a good one loved the hot dogs so had this been a t plus

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one settlement while the trade would have been settled on that Friday if T

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plus two then it would have settled no not Monday a holiday so doesn't count

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it would have settled Tuesday but it's t plus three so it settles Wednesday why

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all this lag in the era of lightspeed computers well in the olden days people [worm hole to computer chips]

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waited for physical delivery of a dead tree with ink on it to consider a trade

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settled than it used to be T plus five or five days

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stocks three and bonds and money market funds a one two three days and something

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like that but things moved around as time went by today however if you hear t

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minus three well it may be time to climb into your bomb shelter [countdown on tv show]

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