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Commodity exchange
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Commodity exchange
Price basing
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A situation where producers, processors, merchants or consumers of a commodity establish commercial transaction prices based on the futures prices for that or a related commodity (e.g., an offer to ...
Specialist system
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A type of trading commonly used for the exchange trading of securities in which one individual or firm acts as a market-maker in a particular security, with the obligation to see that trading in that ...
Roll-over
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A trading procedure involving the shift of one month of a straddle into another future month while holding the other contract month. The shift can take place in either the long or short straddle ...
Par
Financial services; Commodity exchange
(1) Refers to the standard delivery point(s) and/or quality of a commodity that is deliverable on a futures contract at contract price. Serves as a benchmark upon which the base discounts or premiums ...
Market marker
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A professional securities dealer who has an obligation to buy when there is an excess of sell orders and to sell when there is an excess of buy orders. By maintaining an offering price sufficiently ...
Feed ratio
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A ratio used to express the relationship of feeding costs to the dollar value of livestock. Hog/Corn Ratio The relationship of feeding costs to the dollar value of hogs. It is measured by dividing ...
Dealer option
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A put or call on a physical commodity, not originating on or subject to the rules of an exchange, in which the obligation for performance rests with the writer of the option. Dealer options are ...
