Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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Licenced warehouse

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A warehouse approved by exchange from which a commodity may be delivered on a futures contract. See Regular Warehouse.

Even lot

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A unit of trading in a commodity established by an exchange to which official price quotations apply. See Round Lot.

Any person (other than a person registered as an "associated person" of a futures commission merchant) who is engaged in soliciting or in accepting orders for the purchase or sale of any commodity ...

Leverage transaction merchant

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Any individual, association, partnership, corporation, or trust that is engaged in the business of offering to enter into, entering into, or confirming the execution of leverage contracts, or ...

Double hedging

Financial services; Commodity exchange

As used by the CFTC, it implies a situation where a trader holds a long position in the futures market in excess of the speculative limit as an offset to a fixed price sale even though the trader has ...

Financial instruments

Financial services; Commodity exchange

As used by the CFTC, this term generally refers to any futures or option contract that is not based on an agricultural commodity or a natural resource. It includes currencies, securities, mortgages, ...

Floor broker

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Any person who, in any pit, ring, post or other place provided by a contract market for the meeting of persons similarly engaged, executes for another person any orders for the purchase or sale of ...