marktschonend veraeussern

English translation: finessing an order

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German term or phrase:marktschonend
English translation:finessing an order
Entered by: EMatt

20:31 Mar 20, 2002
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Investment / Securities / stock market
German term or phrase: marktschonend veraeussern
No context other than that it involves the sale of a large block of stock.
EMatt
Local time: 21:13
to avoid slippage
Explanation:
What this means is that someone is trying to get rid of a large chunk without having a major impact on the market. This involves market feeling (=the ability to gauge just how much you can feed into the market without showing your real size) and/or the ability to place blocks of shares with investors.

You may recall the brouhaha surrounding Deutsche Bank's sale of quite a large block of Deutsche Telekom shares last year. In fact, the sale was handled quite nicely - the price didn't collapse until they had pulled it off (shame for those who bought the shares...).

If the term is on its own, you might use something along the lines of "selling without excessive slippage".

There is an expression in "broker's lingo" where the process of feeding an order smoothly into the market is referred to as "finessing an order", but I doubt whether someone outside this industry would really catch the drift...

PS If this is part of a sentence, let's see it!
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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 02:13
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Thanks for your professional answer. I like the finessing term.
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to avoid slippage


Explanation:
What this means is that someone is trying to get rid of a large chunk without having a major impact on the market. This involves market feeling (=the ability to gauge just how much you can feed into the market without showing your real size) and/or the ability to place blocks of shares with investors.

You may recall the brouhaha surrounding Deutsche Bank's sale of quite a large block of Deutsche Telekom shares last year. In fact, the sale was handled quite nicely - the price didn't collapse until they had pulled it off (shame for those who bought the shares...).

If the term is on its own, you might use something along the lines of "selling without excessive slippage".

There is an expression in "broker's lingo" where the process of feeding an order smoothly into the market is referred to as "finessing an order", but I doubt whether someone outside this industry would really catch the drift...

PS If this is part of a sentence, let's see it!


    Own professional experience in the financial markets (>15 years in derivatives)
Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 02:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 475
Grading comment
Thanks for your professional answer. I like the finessing term.

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