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Paired Positions
Margin requirements and market values related to positions where stock, convertible bonds, or convertible preferred stocks are used in the pairings.

Parabolic SAR
The Parabolic Time/Price System developed by Welles Wilder is used to set price stops and it is usually referred to as the stop-and-reversal (SAR) indicator.

The system is designed to allow more leeway or tolerance for contratrend price fluctuation early in a new trade, then to progressively tighten a protective trailing stop order as the trend matures.

To accomplish this, it employs a series of progressively shorter, exponentially smoothed moving averages each period that price moves to a new extreme in the expected trend direction.

The Parabolic SAR provides excellent exit points. You should close long positions when the price falls below the SAR and close short positions when the price rises above the SAR.

If you are long (i.e., the price is above the SAR), the SAR will move up every day, regardless of the direction the price is moving. The amount the SAR moves up depends on the amount that prices move.

This concept is explained thoroughly in Wilder's book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems.

Passbook Savings Account
A type of savings account that requires the account owner to present the passbook to the bank with each deposit and withdrawal.

Par Amount
For a Certificate of Deposit (CD), this is the stated value of a CD at maturity.

Additionally, other securities (e.g., bonds) have par amounts.

Partially Filled Order
An order for which a portion of the shares to purchase or sell have been executed, but not all.

Participation Rate
The extent to which an investor will participate in the potential appreciation or depreciation of an underlying index or basket of securities. Generally a feature of structured products. If the participation rate of the structured product is less than 100%, the investor will realize a return that is less than the return of the linked index or customized basket. For example, if the participation rate is 80%, the investor will receive only 80% of any positive return on the index or basket, assuming no other limits on return potential. The participation rate will vary by product, and factors such as index type, maturity, and caps affect the rate.

Par Value
The stated value of an investment at maturity. Includes bonds, life insurance policies, bank notes, currency, some stocks, and other securities. Typically $1,000 for a corporate bond.

PAS TAM Aggressive Growth – Muni Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 85% stocks and 15% municipal bonds.

PAS TAM Aggressive Growth – Taxable Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 85% stocks and 15% taxable bonds.

PAS TAM All Equity Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation in a portfolio made up of 70% U.S. stocks and 30% international stocks.

PAS TAM Balanced – Taxable Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 50% stocks, 40% taxable bonds, and 10% short-term money market accounts.

PAS TAM Balanced – Muni Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 50% stocks, 40% municipal bonds, and 10% short-term money market accounts.

PAS TAM Conservative – Muni Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 50% municipal bonds, 30% short-term money market accounts, and 20% stocks.

PAS TAM Conservative – Taxable Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 50% taxable bonds, 30% short-term money market accounts, and 20% stocks.

PAS TAM Growth – Muni Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 70% stocks, 25% municipal bonds, and 5% short-term money market accounts.

PAS TAM Growth – Taxable Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 70% stocks, 25% taxable bonds, and 5% short-term money market accounts.

PAS TAM Growth With Income – Muni Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 60% stocks, 35% municipal bonds, and 5% short-term money market accounts.

PAS TAM Growth With Income – Taxable Blended Index
Combines market indices to reflect your investment strategy's long-term target asset allocation of 60% stock, 35% taxable bond, and 5% short-term money market accounts.

Payment Date
The date on which the performance awards are paid to you.

Payment Delay
Because payments to a certain type of Agency bond holder depend on the collection and distribution of payments made by the holders of the underlying mortgage loans, a payment delay occurs.

Payment Frequency, Pay Frequency
This refers to how often a fixed-income security (e.g., a bond, Certificate of Deposit) pays coupon interest (e.g., monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, yearly).

Payment Method
The method by which payments are made by the Smart Payment Program.

Payment Percentage
The percentage of the total payment of shares/units and dividends (if applicable) that will be paid on the payment date.

Payout
An annuity status indicating that the annuity owner is now receiving income payments from the annuity.

Payout Ratio, TTM %
In a Company Profile, this ratio is the percentage of the primary/basic earnings per share excluding extraordinary items paid to common stockholders in the form of cash dividends during the trailing 12 months (TTM).

Payroll Deduction
In an employee stock purchase plan, the percentage or dollar amount that you elect to have withheld for stock purchases for an offering period.

Payroll Deduction Elections
The dollar amount or percentage that a participant chooses to have withheld for stock purchase during the current offering period.

Payroll Deduction Guidelines
Refer to your plan documents for specific policies pertaining to payroll deduction guidelines.

Payroll Deductions
A historic list of your elections for payroll deductions for your Employee Stock Purchase Plan. For each entry in the list, the date, transaction type and the percent or dollar amount of the payroll deduction is displayed.

Peg Ratio
This is calculated by dividing the P/E ratio by the expected growth rate.

Pending
This is an order status indicating that a mutual fund account exchange order has been placed and no part of the order has been executed.

Pending Achievement Value
The total pending value of the number of shares/units and dividends (if applicable) you may potentially achieve times the price at the close of the previous business day.

Pending Bank Verification
This is a Fidelity Electronic Funds Transfer bank status. This status indicates that the bank routing information for a bank is in the process of being verified. Generally, the verification is complete after 7-10 calendar days.

Pending Cancel
An order status indicating that you placed a request to cancel an open order, but the order has not yet been canceled. Attempts to cancel orders are performed on a best efforts basis. There is no guarantee that an open order can be canceled, in whole or in part.

Pending Open
This is an order status that can display for an order to sell short.

Short sale orders are good for the day only and may be reviewed by a Fidelity representative to determine the availability of shares. While the order is being reviewed, the order will remain in a Pending Open status.

If shares are available to sell short, the status changes to Open until the order executes. If not, Fidelity will attempt to contact you and the order is canceled.

Pending Update

An indication that intra-day activity is taking place on an equity you own.

P/E Ranges
The price to earnings (P/E) ratio ranges display the range of the stock's P/E ratio over given periods of time. This indicator is only available when you choose weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly time periods to chart.

Once you have chosen a time period and time frame to chart, the indicator will display solid bars showing the high and low range of the stock's P/E ratio during each time period.

P/E Ratio
This is the last closing share price divided by the earnings per share based on the trailing 4 quarters of earnings.

P/E Ratio, 5-Year High
The P/E Ratio for each of the past 60 months is calculated using the month end price divided by the trailing twelve month (TTM) earnings per share (EPS) excluding extraordinary items ending the last 1 month earlier than the pricing date. The highest of these 60 P/E values is the 5-year high price earnings ratio.

P/E Ratio, 5-Year Low
The P/E Ratio for each of the past 60 months is calculated using the month end price divided by the trailing twelve month (TTM) earnings per share (EPS) excluding extraordinary items ending the last 1 month earlier than the pricing date. The lowest of these 60 P/E values is the 5-year low price earnings ratio.

%
Refers to one part in a hundred.

% Change
In a watch list:

% Compare
The % Compare indicator shows the relative performance of symbols that you compare to your chart's focus symbol. It creates a baseline, i.e., your chart's focus symbol, around which all other stocks, mutual funds, and indexes are compared.

For example, if you apply IBM as your focus symbol and then in the "compare to" section add MSFT, the % Compare indicator will display IBM as a flat line in the middle of the indicator window with MSFT's performance plotted relative to IBM.

If MSFT's line rises above IBM, it means that MSFT is outperforming IBM. If it falls below IBM, it means that MSFT is under performing IBM.

Note: This indicator is useful because it returns the final percentage by which the compared symbols underperformed or outperformed the focus symbol, i.e., IBM in the example above.

% Gain
For a security listed in a watch list, this is the percentage difference between the purchase price per share x share quantity and the last price quoted for the security.

% Long Term Debt to Total Capitalization
Shows the relative position of lenders and investors in a business over the long term.

The calculation is: long term debt / (long term debt + stockholders equity).

Theoretically, the lower the % Long Term Debt to Total Capitalization, the more cash can be reinvested into the company vs. paying interest on debt.

% of Total Basket Value
The percentage allocated to each position in the basket.

% Short Interest
The % Short Interest indicator is updated monthly and is only available on NYSE listed stocks. A stock's short interest is determined by dividing the number of shares sold short (as reported by the NYSE exchange) divided by the number of shares outstanding multiplied by 100.

Many traders watch short interest closely. As the % Short Interest indicator rises, it reflects a heightening bearish sentiment among investors. As it falls, it suggests that short sellers are becoming more bullish on the stock's short-term price movements.

It is common for some traders to use the % Short Interest indicator as a contrary indicator. Often times, as the % Short Interest indicator climbs higher, and if the stock price continues to rise, there will be pressure on the short sellers to cover their positions by buying shares in the stock thereby increasing the price even further.

Performance Adjustment
The adjustment of the target shares/units and dividends (if applicable) as a result of the performance percentage you have achieved.

Performance End Date
The last day of your performance period in which your performance goals are measured. Depending on your employer's plan rules, the vest date of your performance award may be the same as your performance end date.

Performance Parameters
The performance goals established by your company that you must meet in order to achieve the various performance percentages.

Performance Payment
The payment received for achieving the performance goals established by your company.

Performance Percentage
The percentage to be applied to your target awards at the end of your performance period. This may represent a target, projected or actual percentage.

Period Ending
On the Historical Analysis screen, this is the year and month that end the period for which market returns are shown. These returns are the best or worst returns over a number of different years during a 35-year period.

The analysis uses your portfolio's or one or more selected accounts' asset-allocation mix to calculate the percentages. Then, the historical performance information is calculated for that asset allocation using general market indexes.

Personal Investing
This is a section of the Portfolio screen. In this section, all of your retail brokerage and mutual fund non-retirement and retirement accounts and College Savings Plan accounts display. Also in this section, all of your annuities including those for which you have been named power of attorney, but do not own the annuity display.

Personal Rate of Return
Used to evaluate the combined investment decisions of both an investment manager and the individual investor, Personal Rate of Return measures the performance of the underlying investments including dividends, interest, and fees as well as the size and timing of the individual investor's trades. Also referred to as "money-weighted" rate of return.

Personal Trust
This is a section of the Portfolio screen in which all your Personal Trust accounts and balances display.

Phantom Call
Phantom call or false call - A margin call (House, Federal, Exchange) where sufficient Cash (core) exists that will cover one or more of the outstanding call(s) in your account. This is determined using the Previous Close security prices and the Previous Close Cash (core) balance in your account. Intraday transactions that reduce your Cash (core) may affect the amount of call(s) that are due on your account. Phantom calls will appear under the Margin Calls Details page with a Status of MET.

Placed
The date and time a mutual fund exchange order was placed.

Plan ID
This is the number of your company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan or stock option plan.

Plan Name
The name of the company sponsoring a stock compensation plan (e.g., stock option plan or Employee Stock Purchase Plan). This plan name is displayed on most screens relevant to stock compensation plan activities.

Planned Asset Withdrawal
The amount you planned to withdraw in this period based in your plan of record.

Planned Asset Withdrawal Rate
Fidelity's Retirement Income Planner calculated this annualized asset withdrawal rate based on information in your plan of record. This does not mean that it is a sustainable rate. To assess the risks of this asset withdrawal rate you should revisit your Retirement Income Plan. Fidelity recommends that you update this plan in the tool at least annually or whenever your circumstances change.

Plan Number
This is the number of your company's stock option plan. The plan number differs from the grant ID in that your company will have one stock option plan and corresponding plan number, but may have many grants, one for each award of stock options.

Plan Of Record
The Retirement Income Plan data you asked Fidelity to use for comparison purposes. You can update your plan of record by entering new information in the Retirement Income Planner and saving the new information to your plan of record.

Pool Number
A number or alphanumeric character assigned to a mortgage-backed security by the issuer as an identifier of that security. Pool numbers are typically six digits in length. Different issuers use different alpha characters as the initial digit in their pool.

Pool Type
Identifies types of mortgages in the pool. Examples are Single Family Pool, Buydown Mortgages, Construction Loans, Custom Pools etc.

POP
This is the price being offered per share of a fund. For funds with a load or sales charge, the POP is the Net Asset Value plus the sales charge.

Portfolio
Lists all accounts and annuities associated with the Social Security Number (SSN) and Personal Identification Number (PIN) you used to log in to Fidelity.com.

Portfolio Net Worth
The total value (total assets minus total liabilities) for all of your accounts, as of the dates displayed on the screen.

If this field is labeled Deficit Net Worth, the displayed value is a negative amount.

The net worth total consists of:

The Portfolio Net Worth shown at the top of the Portfolio screen does not include the net worth of authorized accounts which are accounts you are authorized to access, but do not own. There is a separate Portfolio Net Worth total under the Authorized Accounts section of the screen for these accounts.

Position
The number of shares you hold in your account for a particular security.

PostTEFRA Basis
TEFRA stands for the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. Post-TEFRA Cost Basis or Cost Basis is the total remaining portion of all the Investments into a non-qualified annuity on or after August 14, 1982.

Potential Dividends
The potential number of dividends you may achieve if you meet the performance goals established by your company by the end of your performance period.

Potential Shares/Units
The potential number of shares/units you may achieve if you meet the performance goals established by your company by the end of your performance period.

Potential Value
The potential value you may achieve if you meet the performance goals established by your company by the end of your performance period. This reflects the number of potential shares/units and dividends (if applicable) you may achieve times the price at the close of the previous business day.

Precious Metals Commission Schedule
The percent gross amount charged per gross amount is:

Note: The minimum commission charge is $44. The minimum purchase is $2,500. For an IRA account, the minimum purchase is $1,000.

Preferred Discount
Any brokerage account with 12 or more stock, bond, or option trades in a rolling 12-month period will receive an additional 25% savings off standard representative-assisted rates on stock trades placed through a Fidelity representative.

Preferred Stock
Stocks that pay a fixed dividend; have dividend and asset preference over common stocks, but behind debt in the case of bankruptcy. Generally does not come with voting rights. Either perpetual (have no maturity) or maturities of 30 years or more. Can be callable.

Pre-fill by Highest Cost Shares
For specific share trades, choose this option if you want Fidelity to sort and pre-select your specific shares based on the tax lots with the highest cost basis per share information. This option generally results in the lowest capital gain or highest capital loss. Cost basis and unrealized gain/loss information used to perform this function is based on the prior business day's closing price or Net Asset Value (NAV) for the security traded. Fidelity does not guarantee that selecting this option will achieve desired outcome.

Pre-fill by Lowest Cost Shares
For specific share trades, choose this option if you want Fidelity to sort and pre-select your specific share shares based on the tax lots with the lowest cost basis per share information. Cost basis and unrealized gain/loss information used to perform this function is based on the prior business day's closing price or Net Asset Value (NAV) for the security traded. Fidelity does not guarantee that selecting this option will achieve desired outcome.

Pre-fill by Minimizing Gain/Loss
For specific share trades, choose this option if you want Fidelity to sort and pre-select your specific shares with the intent of providing a $0.00 gain or loss amount. Fidelity will attempt to identify high cost basis and low cost basis shares that if sold, would result in a $0.00 capital gain or loss. Cost basis and unrealized gain/loss information used to perform this function is based on the prior business day's closing price or Net Asset Value (NAV) for the security traded. Fidelity does not guarantee that selecting this option will achieve desired outcome.

Premarket Session
The Premarket trading session is available through the Electronic Communications Network (ECN) in which Fidelity participates via Fidelity.com. It will not be available through Fidelity's Automated Service Telephone (FAST®), other online services, or through Fidelity representatives.

During a portion of Fidelity's Premarket session, only those participating ECNs with links to the ECN and participating market makers will be accessible for order execution.

Premarket quotes obtained from Fidelity.com will only reflect the prices available in the ECN.

ECN orders for the Premarket session can be placed from 7:30 to 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time. ECN orders can only be displayed and executed after 8 a.m. Eastern Time. REDIBook is the primary destination for Premarket orders. From 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time, orders are queued at Fidelity. At 8 a.m., Fidelity transmits orders to the ECN and the transmitted orders are queued at REDIBook according to the time received and the specified limit price.

After 8 a.m., Fidelity continues to send orders to the ECN in the order in which Fidelity receives them until 9:15 a.m. unless trading is halted prior to 9:15 a.m.

In the event that REDIBook is unavailable at the regular time for the Premarket session, orders may be queued at Fidelity in the order in which they are received to be submitted to another eligible ECN to which Fidelity is linked.

Premium
The amount above the stated 'face' or par value when a fixed-income security (e.g., a bond) is bought or sold. For example, if a bond's face value is $1,000 and it sells for $1,200, it was sold at a premium.

Pre-Refunded
For purposes of certain tax and securities laws and regulations, a refunding in which the refunded issue remains outstanding for a period of more than 90 days after the issuance of the refunding issue. Typically, such refunded bonds are secured solely by an escrow funded with the proceeds of the refunding bonds. The proceeds of the refunding issue are generally invested in Treasury securities or federal agency securities (although other instruments are sometimes used), with principal and interest from these investments being used (with limited exceptions) to pay principal and interest on the refunded issue. Bonds are "escrowed to maturity" when the proceeds of the refunding issue are deposited in an escrow account for investment in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the issue being refunded on the original interest payment and maturity dates, although in some cases an issuer may expressly reserve its right (pursuant to certain procedures delineated by the SEC) to exercise an early call of bonds that have been escrowed to maturity. Bonds are considered "prerefunded" when the refunding issue's proceeds are escrowed only until a call date or dates on the refunded issue, with the refunded issue redeemed at that time. The Internal Revenue Code and regulations thereunder restrict the yield that may be earned on investment of the proceeds of an advance refunding issue.

Pre-Refunded Bonds 
A municipal bond that is secured by an escrow fund. The escrow fund comes from the issuer floating a second bond issue and using the proceeds from that second bond issue to purchase government obligations, typically U.S. Treasuries, proceeds from the second bond issue create an escrow fund to mature at the first call date of the first bond issue to pre-refund that issue. Bond issuers will typically do this during times of lower interest rates to lower their interest costs.

Pre-Refunded Price 
The value, in par terms, at which the security shall be redeemed.

PreTEFRA Basis 
TEFRA stands for the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. Pre-TEFRA Cost Basis is the total remaining portion of all the Investments that were made into a non-qualified annuity prior to August 14, 1982

Previous Close
The final trading price for a security at the end of the most recent trading day.

Previous Close Date
The date on which the previous close price was calculated. For Fidelity annuity investment options, this information is not applicable.

Previous Daily Unit Value
For Fidelity variable annuity investment option quotes, this is the value of the investment option as of the close of trading on the last trading day before the daily unit value was calculated.

For example, if the daily unit value was last calculated on Thursday, the previous unit value would have been as of Wednesday.

Previous Daily Unit Value Date
This is date as of which the previous daily unit value was last calculated. This is the last trading day before the date on which the daily unit value was last calculated.

Previous Factor
The factor one month ago. See Factor for more information."

Previous Factor Effective Date
The effective date for Previous Factor.

Prev NAV
The previous trading day's net asset value (NAV) for the mutual fund.

The previous NAV was calculated after the market closed two trading days prior to the current date.

This field displays instead of NAV when you view account balances and the market is closed.

Prev NAV Date
The date on which the previous net asset value for a security was calculated.

Previous Price
The price of one share of a security at the close of market on the date shown.

Note: Fidelity values long positions in Over the Counter (OTC) pink sheet and bulletin board stocks in customer accounts at the low sale for the day, or the low bid for the day if the stock did not trade. Short positions in OTC pink sheet and bulletin board stocks are priced at the high sale price for the day, or the high offer if the stock did not trade.

Previous Value

The total market value of a position based on previous close price.

Previous Value is calculated by multiplying Quantity and Previous Price, and the result is truncated at two decimals. Because of this truncation, Previous Value may differ from Most Recent Value by a penny for inactive securities or during non-market hours.

Price
The price specified for a certain type of order.

For fixed income securities (e.g., bonds), this is the price for the security. Sometimes this is expressed as a percentage of the par value.

For a stop limit or stop loss order, this is the limit order price or limit and/or stop price for the order.

Note: Please read Stop Orders.

For a:

Price Change YTD
The percentage increase or decrease in the price of a company's stock for the current year as of the date displayed.

Price Channel
Price channel is one of the simplest and oldest trend-following models. It requires no calculations.

The rules are: Buy when the weekly closing price moves up to a new 20-period high; sell and sell short when the weekly closing price moves down to a new 20-period low. In other words, when the price moves out if its n-period range, go in the direction of this new trend.

Despite its simplicity, Price Channel can be reasonably effective.

Price Display
The price display drop-down box allows you to chart historical price data in a variety of ways. All of the choices in this section will only affect the price chart of your focus security. The options include:

Price Per Ounce
The price per ounce that you estimate paying for a trade order to buy or sell ounces of a precious metal. This is used for the purposes of calculating the estimated commission for a precious metal order.

To place orders for precious metals, call a Fidelity representative at 1-800-544-6666.

Price Per Unit
This is the price for one unit of a portfolio (e.g., Unique Portfolio 2015, DE Portfolio 2018) in a College Savings Plan account as of the date and time displayed.

Price Range
This is the dollar range within which the price for a new issue, fixed-income offering (e.g., bond) is expected to be set.

When entering an indication of interest, either the price range or yield range is displayed. The type of range that displays varies by offering.

Price Tier
Depending on the quantity of bonds purchased, customers may receive a price improvement. The price tier column indicates the round and odd lot price and yields.

Price Type
A price restriction that is placed on the execution of an order.

Not all price types are valid with all types of orders.

Price types can include:

* For an indication of interest in a new issue offering, the type is Market.

Pricing Date
For a new issue fixed-income security, the date on which the price was set.

Primary Country
The country in which the trading market resides, for the primary SEDOL identifier for the bond.

Primary Exchange
The exchange (e.g., New York Stock Exchange) where a security is primarily purchased or sold.

For Fidelity annuity investment options, this is not applicable and N/A displays in the Primary Exchange field.

Primary Order
The order upon which the execution of the secondary order in a conditional trade, such as a One Triggers the Other (OTO) trade, depends.

Primary Sort by Term
Choose a term sort if you wish to group your shares by holding period. Short-term shares have a holding period of less than one year and are generally taxed at a higher federal tax rate. Long term shares have a holding period of greater than one year and are generally taxed at a lower tax rate than short-term shares.

Prime Rate
Prime Rate is the interest rate charged by banks to their most creditworthy customers. The rate is almost always the same amongst major banks. Adjustments to the prime rate are made by banks at the same time; although, the prime rate does not adjust on any regular basis. The Prime Rate is usually adjusted at the same time and in correlation to the adjustments of the Fed Funds Rate.

Principal Cost
Sum of all of the bonds being purchased as part of the ladder. This cost is for new bonds being purchased only. Any existing positions included in the ladder are not reflected in the cost.

Principal Gain/Loss
For bond ladders: The difference between the Total Par Value and Principal Cost indicating the gain or loss from the principal of the bonds.

Prior Business Day's Close
This is one of the fair market value options that displays on the Exercise Grant Order Entry screen for an order to exercise stock options. This value means that your stock option plan uses the stock's prior trading day's closing price to calculate the:

Priority
This is a field on the Tax Lots Specified Lot Detail screen. This field displays numbers assigned to the tax lots from which shares will be traded when the order executes. The tax lot shares are traded according to the numbers assigned, lot number 1 shares are sold first, lot number 2 shares are sold second, etc.

In many cases, an order can execute with the full share amount sold all at once. In some cases, (e.g., with thinly traded stocks or options, or large share quantities), an order may be partially executed. This is when the priority you specify is useful, because it sets the order in which the tax lot shares are sold.

Note that Fidelity does not validate tax lot shares you manually enter under Enter Lots or tax lots with the Cost Basis Source of Customer. Ultimately it is your responsibility to maintain accurate tax lot records.

Privately Held Company
This is a company that is not traded on a public stock exchange or market (e.g., New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq).

Private Placement Transaction
This refers to the sale of securities directly to an investor (e.g., an institutional investor). If the investor purchases the securities with the intent to hold rather than sell them at a profit, the transfer of assets does not need to be registered with the Securities Exchange Commission.

For example, a company wants to raise cash for expansion or acquisitions but does not want to sell the securities to many investors in the stock markets. The company sells shares of stock directly to a venture capitalist or an individual investor who wants to have ownership in the company.

Proceeds (net)
The total amount of money that resulted from the trade, less commissions.

Proceeds (gross)
The total amount of money that resulted from the trade.

Proceeds Adjustment
An adjustment made to the amount of proceeds resulting from the exercise of a put or a call.

If a call is exercised and the underlying stock sold, the amount realized on the sale, i.e., the proceeds, is increased by the premium amount received for the call when determining a gain or loss. If a put is exercised, the amount realized on the sale of the underlying stock is reduced by the cost of the put when determining the gain or loss.

Proceeds Availability Date
The date on which the proceeds from a grant or award exercise are available in your Fidelity account.

Proceeds Distribution Method
Defines how net cash proceeds from a transaction will be distributed to you. The method of distribution depends on your company's plan rules, and may include an automated distribution to you through your company's payroll or a deposit into your Fidelity brokerage account.

Proceeds Election
The percentages of shares and cash that you will receive when exercising a grant or award. Your plan rules may determine these percentages, or you may be able to decide how you receive your proceeds (cash, shares, or a combination) upon exercise.

Proceeds Gross
The total amount of money that resulted from the trade.

Product Name
This refers to the plan type for an annuity (e.g., Retirement Reserves plan).

Profit
On a multi-leg options tool, the gain, in percentage form, you would like to receive over the life of the options given a particular multi-leg options trading strategy. Profit is a hypothetical number, based on what the strategy could earn based on the imputed underlying move. This profit is not guaranteed.

Profit/Loss
The amount of profit or loss realized as a result of the closing transaction. Profit or loss is calculated based on the proceeds received from the sale less the cost of the shares. The cost of the shares sold is determined in first in, first out order, which is the first shares acquired are the first shares sold for determining the profit or loss for the sale.

Fidelity provides cost and associated Profit/Loss ($ and %) information to you as a courtesy service. Retirement account Cost and associated Profit/Loss information should not be used for tax-reporting purposes. The profit/loss amount listed for each closing transaction is an estimated value based on the proceeds amount from the sale less the cost amount recorded by Fidelity (not including reinvestments or dividends or capital gains). Fidelity makes no warranties with respect to, and specifically disclaims any liability arising out of your use of, or any position taken in reliance upon, Fidelity-provided cost information.

Profit/Loss %
The percentage of profit or loss realized as a result of the closing transaction. See "Profit/Loss" directly above for important information on how Fidelity estimates profits and losses.

Profit Margin, TTM (%)
Also known as return on sales. In a Company Profile, this value is the income after taxes for the trailing 12 months (TTM) divided by total revenue for the same period and is expressed as a percentage.

Projected Cash Flow
Projected Cash Flow represents the anticipated monthly interest income and the return of principal that your current holdings are expected to generate over the next rolling 12 months. This information is presented in a table on your monthly or quarterly statement, and includes the following:

Projected Cash Flow
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Prospectus
A legal document required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that discloses an investment's objectives, past performance, and other information to parties considering investing in financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc.

Protective Put
An options strategy in which a long equity position's unrealized profit is protected by the purchase of put options. The options serve as the equivalent of a stop loss order, giving the trader the right to sell the equity at the strike price, limiting the diminished profit from a decline in the share price.

Rules: None

Example:      Long 1000 XYZ at 50
                    Long 10 XYZ 50 Put

Public Offering
This refers to the offering of stock to the investment public. This occurs after Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory regulations have been satisfied. The offering is usually made by an investment banker or syndicate, group of financial institutions, on behalf of the issuer (e.g., the company that wants to sell its stock to the public).

Purchase Date
This refers to the offering of stock to the investment public. This occurs after Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory regulations have been satisfied. The offering is usually made by an investment banker or syndicate, group of financial institutions, on behalf of the issuer (e.g., the company that wants to sell its stock to the public).

Purchase Date FMV
The fair market value of one share of purchased stock on the date the purchase was made.

Purchase History
This summary area of the History screen for an Employee Stock Purchase Plan summarizes the stock purchases made in the plan. For each transaction in this area, the following information is displayed from left to right:

Purchase Price
Original purchase price per share of the security.

In a watch list, if you do not own the security, but would like to track its performance, enter the price per share at which you want to begin watching the security or a hypothetical price to serve as a benchmark.

Purchase Price/Share
If you are not using Fidelity cost basis information and you wish to specify shares, you should provide the share quantity, date acquired and purchase price/share for each tax lot you are specifying for the order. The purchase price/share is the price you paid for each share.

Purged Accounts
Accounts that have been removed from our systems due to a zero balance and two years inactivity. Purged accounts will remain in the applicable account groups, as the historical data activity in these accounts could have a significant impact on the past performance of the account grouping.

Purpose
For new issue fixed-income (e.g., bond) offerings, this is how the proceeds from the offering will be used. For example:

Put
With a put option, you have the right to sell a certain number of shares of an underlying security at a specified price for a specified period of time.

Put Bid/Ask Mean
This number is a simple average of the market maker's bid and ask spread for put options only.

Put/Call Volume
For options contracts, a ratio comparing the trading day's volume of puts compared to the trading day's volume of calls.

Put Notification Maximum Number of days
The number of days prior to the Put Date representing a holder's first opportunity to notify an issuer of intent to exercise the holder's redemption option.

Put Notification Minimum Number of Days
The number of days prior to the Put Date representing a holder's last opportunity to notify an issuer of intent to exercise the holder's redemption option.

Put Option
A provision in a bond contract under which the investor has the right, on specified dates after required notification, to surrender the securities to the issuer (or someone acting on the issuer's behalf, such as a tender agent) at the predetermined price (usually par). This is sometimes referred to as an "optional tender" or "put option."

Put Symbol
The symbol for an option in a trade order.

Note: Precede the symbol with a dash (-).

Puttable
A type of bond that gives the holder with the right to require an issuer to repurchase the bond, allowing the holder to purchase a higher coupon bond with the proceeds received from exercising the put option. Puts can generally be exercised on pre-determined dates. Customers are encouraged to read the prospectus to understand the type of put feature and any associated limitations.