Commodity exchange glossaries and terms

Brokerage house

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An individual or organisation that solicits or accepts orders to buy or sell futures contracts or options on futures and accepts money or other assets from customers to support such orders. Also ...

Call rule

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An exchange regulation under which an official bid price for a cash commodity is competitively established at the close of each day's trading. It holds until the next opening of the exchange.

Floor trader

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An exchange member who executes his own trades by being personally present in the pit for futures trading. See Local.

For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity. In interest rate futures markets, it refers to ...

Managed account

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Financial safeguards to ensure that clearing members (usually companies or corporations) perform on their customers' open futures and options contracts. Clearing margins are distinct from customer ...

Margin

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Financial safeguards to ensure that clearing members (usually companies or corporations) perform on their customers' open futures and options contracts. Clearing margins are distinct from customer ...

Cost of carry

Financial services; Commodity exchange

For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity. In interest rate futures markets, it refers to ...

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