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Commodity exchange
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Commodity exchange
crack spread
Financial services; Commodity exchange
(1) In energy futures, the simultaneous purchase of crude oil futures and the sale of petroleum product futures to establish a refining margin. One can trade a gasoline crack spread, a heating oil ...
market maker
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A professional securities dealer or person with trading privileges on an exchange who has an obligation to buy when there is an excess of sell orders and to sell when there is an excess of buy ...
dodd-frank act
Financial services; Commodity exchange
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law on July 21, 2010. Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act amends the Commodity Exchange Act to establish a comprehensive new ...
agricultural commodity
Financial services; Commodity exchange
An agricultural commodity is defined in Commission regulation 1.3(zz) as a commodity in one of four categories: (1) the enumerated commodities listed in section 1a of the Commodity Exchange Act, ...
major swap participant (MSP)
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A designation in the Commodity Exchange Act as amended by the Dodd-Frank Act for large traders in swap markets that are not swap dealers. There are three parts to the Dodd-Frank Act definition. A ...
cascade
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A situation in which the execution of market orders or stop loss orders on an electronic trading system triggers other stop loss orders which may, in turn, trigger still more stop loss orders. This ...
hard position limit
Financial services; Commodity exchange
A Speculative Position Limit whose exceedance is a violation of exchange rules and consequently triggers predefined penalties. This is in contrast to a position accountability level, which when ...