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lookbacks

lookbacks is the plural of lookback.

Meaning of lookback

Noun

lookback (plural lookbacks)

  1. (attributive, often) A kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the option.
    • Another interesting path-dependent option is the lookback option. A lookback call allows you to buy the asset at the lowest price and a lookback put allows you to sell it at the highest price attained during the life of the option.2009, Don M. Chance, Robert Edwin Brooks, An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management

Questions about lookbacks

What is lookbacks the plural of?
Lookbacks is the plural of lookback.

Words near lookbacks in the dictionary

  1. lookasides
  2. lookatcha
  3. lookatchu
  4. lookback
  5. lookback time
  6. lookbacks
  7. lookbehind
  8. lookbehinds
  9. lookbook
  10. lookbooked
  11. lookbooking

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