Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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Commodity exchange

Time spread

Financial services; Commodity exchange

The selling of a nearby option and buying of a more deferred option with the same strike price.

Round lot

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A quantity of a commodity equal in size to the corresponding futures contract for the commodity.

Refers to a provision of any physical delivery Treasury Bond or Note futures contract which permits shorts to wait until as late as 8:00 p.m. on any notice day to announce their intention to deliver ...

Reporting level

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Sizes of positions set by the exchanges and/or the CFTC at or above which commodity traders or brokers who carry these accounts must make daily reports about the size of the position by commodity, by ...

Purchase and sale statement (P&S)

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A statement sent by a commission house to a customer when any part of a futures position is offset, showing the number of contracts involved, the prices at which the contracts were bought or sold, ...

Payment-in-kind

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Refers to an alternative to cash payments to producers of various commodities under the U.S. Department of Agriculture acreage control programme authorised by Congress in 1985. The payments consisted ...

Public elevators

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Grain elevators in which bulk storage of grain is provided for the public for a fee. Grain of the same grade but owned by different persons is usually mixed or commingled as opposed to storing it ...