title: Basket (finance)
text: # Basket (finance)
  
  In finance, a basket is a weighted group (a linear combination) of several financial instruments. The purpose could be for example simultaneous buying or selling, for example during program trading.
  
  Certain specific specialized "baskets":
  
  * A stock market index is a basket for all the securities in a particular exchange.
  * A market basket is a basket for all the securities on a particular market.
  * A combination of individual assets, used as an underlying of a basket option.
  