Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

Industry: Financial services

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Financial services; Commodity exchange

Usually refers to a cash market price for a physical commodity that is available for immediate delivery.

cheapest-to-deliver

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Usually refers to the selection of bonds deliverable against an expiring bond futures contract.

fictitious trading

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Wash trading, bucketing, cross trading, or other schemes which give the appearance of trading. Actually, no bona fide, competitive trade has occurred.

at-the-money

Financial services; Commodity exchange

When an option's exercise price is the same as the current trading price of the underlying commodity, the option is at-the-money.

When trading options on futures contracts, a position created by selling a call option, buying a put option, and buying the underlying futures contract, where the options have the same strike price ...

front running

Financial services; Commodity exchange

With respect to commodity futures and options, taking a futures or option position based upon non-public information regarding an impending transaction by another person in the same or related future ...

customer margin

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Within the futures industry, financial guarantees required of both buyers and sellers of futures contracts and sellers of options contracts to ensure fulfilling of contract obligations. FCMs are ...