Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

Industry: Financial services

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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 ...

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.