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Commodity exchange
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Commodity exchange
Crop reports
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Reports compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on various ag commodities that are released throughout the year. Information in the reports includes estimates on planted acreage, yield, and ...
Liquidate
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Selling (or purchasing) futures contracts of the same delivery month purchased (or sold) during an earlier transaction or making (or taking) delivery of the cash commodity represented by the futures ...
Managed futures
Financial services; Commodity exchange
Represents an industry comprised of professional money mangers known as commodity trading advisors who manage client assets on a discretionary basis, using global futures markets as an investment ...
Horizontal spread
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The purchase of either a call or put option and the simultaneous sale of the same type of option with typically the same strike price but with a different expiration month. also referred to as a ...
Calendar spread
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The purchase of one delivery month of a given futures contract and simultaneous sale of another delivery month of the same commodity on the same exchange. The purchase of either a call or put option ...
Clearing
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The procedure through which the clearing house or association becomes the buyer to each seller of a futures contract, and the seller to each buyer, and assumes responsibility for protecting buyers ...
Audit trail
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The record of trading information identifying, for example, the brokers participating in each transaction, the firms clearing the trade, the terms and time of the trade, and, ultimately, and when ...
