initial performance bond

initial performance bond definition - finance
The funds that are required to be deposited as collateral when a futures position or a short option on futures position is opened with a brokerage firm.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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