Handle

The whole dollar price, or stem, of a quote.

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This term is usually used in the foreign currency and money markets.

For example, a foreign currency trading at 75.25 and a money market security trading at 75.75 both have handles of 75. Traders usually do not include the handles when quoting prices because it is assumed that involved traders already know them.

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Trader's shorthand where the whole number is eliminated from a trade quote and understood by the parties to the trade. Quotes are in fractions: 1⁄16 bid, 3⁄16 offered.

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Handle may refer to:

• Handle (grip), a grip attached to an object for using or moving the object, such as a door handle
• Handle (mathematics), a topological ball
• Handle (computing), a particular kind of smart pointer
• Handle System, a system for uniquely numbering digital objects. Most well known application is in digital object identifiers
• Handles (novel), a children's book by Jan Mark
• Adjustment handles, little boxes for resizing a GUI control
• Opaque pointer, in computer programming, a datatype that hides its internal implementation using a pointer
• Reference (computer science), an object referring to data stored elsewhere in computer memory
• Pseudonym used in a communication system
• User (computing), a pseudonym used within an online system
• Handle-o-Meter, a machine that measures surface friction and flexibility of sheeted materials
• A 1.75L bottle of alcohol
• Betting handle

See also

• Handel (disambiguation)
• Hendel, Hendl

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