摘要: A classification used by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to describe traders that use the futures market primarily to hedge their business activities.
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摘要: A government-issued document that allows noncitizens to enter a foreign country temporarily for business purposes. A country may issue commercial visas for different types of business visits. The Unit[阅读全文:]
摘要: An act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government that provides federal regulation of all futures trading activities. This act replaced the Grain Futures Act of 1922.
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摘要: Similar to a butterfly spread, a condor is an options strategy that also has a bear and a bull spread, except that the strike prices on the short call and short put are different.
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摘要: When the futures price is above the expected future spot price. Consequently, the price will decline to the spot price before the delivery date.
This is the opposite of backwardation.
摘要: Any board of trade designated to trade a specific options or futures contract. Basically it's another word for "designated exchange".
For example, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a[阅读全文:]
摘要: The deliverable quantity of goods or commodities underlying futures, forward and option contracts.
Each contract will have a well defined contract size. For example, most equity options [阅读全文:]
摘要: The actual amount of commodities represented by a single futures contract.
Different futures contracts have different contract units and measurements. For example, soybean contracts have 5,000 b[阅读全文:]
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The financial worth of the securities obtained by exchanging a convertible security for its underlying assets. Convertibles are a category of financial instruments, such as convertible bonds and pr[阅读全文:]
摘要: The other party that participates in a financial transaction. Every transaction must have a counterparty in order for the transaction to go through. More specifically, every buyer of an asset must be [阅读全文:]