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Commodity exchange
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Commodity exchange
Customer margin
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Within the futures industry, financial guarantees required of both buyers and sellers of futures contracts and sellers of options contracts to ensure fulfilling of contract obligations. FCMs are ...
Invisible supply
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Uncounted stocks of a commodity in the hands of wholesalers, manufacturers and producers which cannot be identified accurately; stocks outside commercial channels but theoretically available to the ...
Front running
Financial services; Commodity exchange
With respect to commodity futures and options, taking a futures or option position based upon non-public information regarding an impending transaction by another person in the same or related future ...
Conversion
Financial services; Commodity exchange
When trading options on futures contracts, a position created by selling a call option, buying a put option, and buying the underlying futures contract, where the options have the same strike price ...
Fictitious trading
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Wash trading, bucketing, cross trading, or other schemes which give the appearance of trading. Actually, no bona fide, competitive trade has occurred.
Distant or deferred delivery
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Usually means one of the more distant months in which futures trading is taking place.
At-the-money
Financial services; Commodity exchange
When an option's exercise price is the same as the current trading price of the underlying commodity, the option is at-the-money.
