1 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Financial services > Commodity exchange
Commodity exchange
Industry: Financial services
Add a new termContributors in Commodity exchange
Commodity exchange
Carrying broker
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A member of a commodity exchange, usually a futures commission merchant, through whom another broker or customer elects to clear all or part of its trades.
Volatility
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A measurement of the change in price over a given period. It is often expressed as a percentage and computed as the annualised standard deviation of the percentage change in daily price.
Beta coefficient
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A measure of the variability of rate of return or value of a stock or portfolio compared to that of the overall market.
Fundamental analysis
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A method of anticipating future price movement using supply and demand information.
Gamma
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A measurement of how fast delta changes, given a unit change in the underlying futures price.
Boiler room
Financial services; Commodity exchange
An enterprise which often is operated out of inexpensive, low-rent quarters (hence the term "boiler room") that uses high pressure sales tactics (generally over the telephone) and possibly false or ...
Clearinghouse
Financial services; Commodity exchange
An agency or separate corporation of a futures exchange that is responsible for settling trading accounts, clearing trades, collecting and maintaining margin monies, regulating delivery, and ...
