Held for Trading definition
Held for Trading. (HFT) means the category of investment portfolio maintained by the banks with intention to trade in securities by taking advantage of the short- term price/interest rate movements.
Examples of Held for Trading in a sentence
We compute the market value of our notes classified as Available for Sale and Held for Trading in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India.
This new consensus, EITF 02-3 "Issues Involved in Accounting for Derivative Contracts Held for Trading Purposes and Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities," is effective for fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2002.
We compute the market value our unquoted government securities included in the Available for Sale and Held for Trading categories as per the rates published by FIMMDA.