Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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Moving-average charts

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A statistical price analysis method of recognising different price trends. A moving average is calculated by adding the prices for a predetermined number of days and then dividing by the number of ...

Intercommodity spread

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A spread in which the long and short legs are in two different but generally related commodity markets. Also called an intermarket spread. See Spread.

Balance of payment

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A summary of the international transactions of a country over a period of time including commodity and service transactions, and gold movements.

Interdelivery spread

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A spread involving two different months of the same commodity. Also called an intracommodity spread. See Spread.

Diagonal spread

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A spread between two call options or two put options with different strike prices and different expiration dates.

Buying hedge

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Buyer futures contracts to protect against a possible price increase of cash commodities that will e purchased in the future. At the time the cash commodities are bought, the open futures position is ...