Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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many-to-many

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Refers to a trading platform in which multiple participants have the ability to execute or trade commodities, derivatives, or other instruments by accepting bids and offers made by multiple other ...

forward rate agreement (FRA)

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An OTC forward contract on a short-term interest rate. The buyer of a FRA is a notional borrower, i.e., the buyer commits to pay a fixed rate of interest on some notional amount that is never ...

Grain Futures Act

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Federal statute that provided for the regulation of trading in grain futures, effective June 22, 1923; administered by the Grain Futures Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of ...

A derivative contract designed to assume or shift credit risk, that is, the risk of a credit event such as a default or bankruptcy of a borrower. For example, a lender might use a credit derivative ...

exchange of derivatives for related positions (EDRP)

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A general term for privately negotiated trades exchanging a futures position for a related physical or swap position that are transacted off exchange but reported to the designated contract market ...

stop logic functionality

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A provision applicable to futures traded on the CME’s Globex electronic trading system designed to prevent excessive price movements caused by cascading stop orders. Stop Logic Functionality ...

exchange for physicals (EFP)

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A transaction in which the buyer of a cash commodity transfers to the seller a corresponding amount of long futures contracts, or receives from the seller a corresponding amount of short futures, at ...