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Commodity exchange
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Commodity exchange
price range
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The price span during a given trading session, week, month, year, etc.
aggregation
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The principle under which all futures positions owned or controlled by one trader (or group of traders acting in concert) are combined to determine reporting status and compliance with speculative ...
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 ...
clear
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The process by which a clearinghouse maintains records of all trades and settles margin flow on a daily mark-to-market basis for its clearing member.
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 ...
holder
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The purchaser of either a call or put option. Option buyers receive the right, but not the obligation, to assume a futures position. Also referred to as the Option Buyer.
