triple witching hour

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The hour before the stock market closing on the third Friday of March, June, September, or December, when both options and futures on stock indices expire, known for its high trading volume and volatile prices in futures, options, and underlying securities.

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No references found			This fall has been a strange time -- a triple witching hour of market volatility, a national election and drawn-out Jewish holidays that have disrupted the cycle," says Melissa Cohn, president of the Manhattan Mortgage Company. Bear market squeezes mortgages by Hughes, C.J. / The Real Deal TRIPLE WITCHING HOUR Final trading hour of the third Friday of the month, when listed options expire. The price is right by Korn, Donald J. / Black Enterprise California and many of its cities are now grappling with the triple witching hour of property tax losses, sales tax recession, and income tax losses," said Larry Kosmont, president and CEO of Kosmont Companies and founder of the Survey. 15th Annual Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey ... by Business Wire			Triplasian triple triple A Triple Alliance triple alpha process triple bond triple cream triple creme Triple Crown Triple Entente triple expansion engine triple figure Triple Frontier Triple ingrain carpet triple jump triple measure triple play triple point Triple ratio triple rhyme Triple salt triple sec Triple star triple time Triple valve triple witching hour triple-crown triple-crown season Triple-crowned triple-decker Triple-expansion steam engine Triple-headed triple-header triple-nerved triple-space triple-spacing Triple-tail triple-tongue triplet triplet code tripletail Tripletrine triplets Tripleurospermum Tripleurospermum inodorum Tripleurospermum oreades tchihatchewii Tripleurospermum tchihatchewii triplex triplicate Triplicate ratio Triplicate-ternate			triple threat physician Triple Tibial Osteotomy triple time triple time triple top Triple Tops Triple torus Triple torus Triple torus Triple Transient Suppression Triple Transplant triple tray triple tray triple tray Triple Triad Triple Triad Advance Triple Tube triple twist Triple valve Triple vector product triple vision Triple watershed Triple Whopper Triple Whopper Triple Whopper triple window Triple witching Triple witching Triple Witching Day Triple Witching Days triple witching hour Triple Witching Hours Triple Witching Week Triple Witching Weeks Triple X Triple X Triple X Triple X Triple X Triple X syndrome Triple X syndrome Triple X syndrome triple XXX syndrome triple XXX syndrome triple XXX syndrome Triple Zeta Valence Triple Zeta Valence Plus Polarization triple-A triple-A triple-A Triple-A Rating Triple-A Rating Triple-A Rating Triple-A Rating Triple-A Ratings Triple-A Ratings Triple-A Ratings Triple-A Ratings triple-A tenant Triple-alpha process Triple-alpha process

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