Spread is used to refer to the difference between the price that a seller wants someone to pay for a particular stock or share and the price that the buyer is willing to pay. Market makers earn their livings from the spread between buying and selling prices
(i) The difference between the bid and ask price of a security (ii) The difference between the price of 2 related futures contracts (iii) For options, transactions involving 2 or more option series on the same underlying security
To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail
If you spread something over a period of time, it takes place regularly or continuously over that period, rather than happening at one time. There seems to be little difference whether you eat all your calorie allowance in one go, or spread it over the day
An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets
The simultaneous purchase and sale of futures contracts for the same commodity or instrument for delivery in different months, or in different but related markets A spreader is not concerned with the direction in which the market moves, but only with the difference between the prices of each contract