Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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mark-to-market

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Daily cash flow system used by U.S. futures exchanges to maintain a minimum level of margin equity for a given futures or option contract position by calculating the gain or loss in each contract ...

current delivery

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Deliveries being made during a present month. Sometimes current delivery is used as a synonym for nearby delivery.

Directly or indirectly taking the opposite side of a customer's order into a broker's own account or into an account in which a broker has an interest, without open and competitive execution of the ...

warehouse receipt

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Document guaranteeing the existence and availability of a given quantity and quality of a commodity in storage; commonly used as the instrument of transfer of ownership in both cash and futures ...

eurodollar CDS

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Dollar-denominated certificates of deposit issued by a bank outside of the United States, either a foreign bank or U.S. bank subsidiary.

commercial grain stocks

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Domestic grain in store in public and private elevators at important markets and grain afloat in vessels or barges in lake and seaboard ports.

dual trading

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Dual trading occurs when: (1) a floor broker executes customer orders and, on the same day, trades for his own account or an account in which he has an interest; or (2) an FCM carries customer ...