Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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payment-in-kind

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Refers to an alternative to cash payments to producers of various commodities under the U.S. Department of Agriculture acreage control program authorized by Congress in 1985. The payments consisted ...

strong hands

Financial services; Commodity exchange

When used in connection with delivery of commodities on futures contracts, the term usually means that the party receiving the delivery notice probably will take delivery and retain ownership of the ...

synthetic futures

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A position created by combining call and put options. A synthetic long futures position is created by combining a long call option and a short put option for the same expiration date and the same ...

retender

Financial services; Commodity exchange

In specific circumstances, some contract markets permit holders of futures contracts who have received a delivery notice through the clearing house to sell a futures contract and return the notice to ...

settlement or settling price

Financial services; Commodity exchange

The daily price at which the clearing house clears all trades and settles all accounts between clearing members of each contract month. Settlement prices are used to determine both margin calls and ...

puts

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Option contracts which give the holder the right but not the obligation to sell a specified quantity of a particular commodity or other interest at a given price (the "strike price") prior to or on a ...

shock absorber

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A temporary restriction in the trading of stock index futures which becomes effective following a significant intraday decrease in stock index futures prices. Designed to provide an adjustment period ...