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Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Netting

Trading & orders

Offsetting a client’s buys and sells in the same security on the same day, so that only the net position goes to settlement.

In plain terms

Why most of a busy day’s turnover leaves no trace anywhere. Buy and sell the same shares before the close and nothing is delivered.

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Deliverable quantity

Trading & orders

The number of shares that actually move between demat accounts at settlement, after same-day client-level netting.

In plain terms

The absolute figure behind delivery percentage. Read it against its own recent average, because the percentage moves whenever turnover moves.

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Trade-to-trade settlement

Trading & orders
Also called: T2T, Trade for trade

A settlement mode in which every trade must be settled by delivery, with no intraday netting of buys against sells.

In plain terms

A mistaken buy has to be paid for in full and sold the next day. Marked as the BE series on the NSE and the T group on the BSE, and it usually arrives with a narrowed price band attached.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya