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Accrual
Accrual (accumulation) of something is, in finance, the adding together of interest or different investments over a period of time.
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AEX index
The AEX index, derived from Amsterdam Exchange index, is a stock market index composed of Dutch companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam, formerly known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
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Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Arbitrage
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.
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Asset
In financial accounting, an asset is an economic resource.
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Australian Securities Exchange
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX, sometimes referred to outside Australia as the Sydney Stock Exchange) is Australia's primary securities exchange.
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Baltic Exchange
The Baltic Exchange (incorporated as The Baltic Exchange Limited) is a membership organisation for the maritime industry, and freight market information provider for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts.
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Bankers' acceptance
A banker's acceptance, is a promised future payment, or time draft, which is accepted and guaranteed by a bank and drawn on a deposit at the bank.
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Black–Scholes model
The Black–Scholes or Black–Scholes–Merton model is a mathematical model for the dynamics of a financial market containing derivative investment instruments.
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Bond market
The bond market (also debt market or credit market) is a financial market where participants can issue new debt, known as the primary market, or buy and sell debt securities, known as the secondary market.
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Bullion
Bullion is gold, silver, or other precious metals in the form of bars or ingots.
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CAC 40
The CAC 40 (CAC quarante) (Cotation Assistée en Continu) is a benchmark French stock market index.
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Call option
A call option, often simply labeled a "call", is a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the seller of this type of option.
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Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established on April 3, 1848, is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Chicago Merc", or "the Merc") is an American financial and commodity derivative exchange based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive.
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Clearing house (finance)
A clearing house is a financial institution formed to facilitate the exchange (i.e., clearance) of payments, securities, or derivatives transactions.
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CME Group
CME Group Inc. (Chicago Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade) is an American financial market company operating an options and futures exchange.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.
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Coffee
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.
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Commitments of Traders
The Commitments of Traders is a weekly market report issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enumerating the holdings of participants in various futures markets in the United States.
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Commodity
In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.
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Commodity broker
A commodity broker is a firm or individual who executes orders to buy or sell commodity contracts on behalf of clients and charges them a commission.
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Commodity Exchange Act
Commodity Exchange Act (ch. 545,, enacted June 15, 1936) is a federal act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government (replacing the Grain Futures Act of 1922).
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent agency of the US government created in 1974, that regulates futures and option markets.
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Commodity market
A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products.
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Compound interest
Compound interest is the addition of interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit, or in other words, interest on interest.
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Consumer
A consumer is a person or organization that use economic services or commodities.
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Contango
Contango is a situation where the futures price (or forward price) of a commodity is higher than the anticipated spot price at maturity of the futures contract.
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Contract for future sale
A contract for future sale is a sales contract under which a farmer agrees to deliver products of specified quality and quantity to a buyer for a specified price within a prescribed time frame.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Cornering the market
In finance, cornering the market consists of obtaining sufficient control of a particular stock, commodity, or other asset in an attempt to manipulate the market price.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Credit risk
A credit risk is the risk of default on a debt that may arise from a borrower failing to make required payments.
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Cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.
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Currency
A currency (from curraunt, "in circulation", from currens, -entis), in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.
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Currency future
A currency future, also known as an FX future or a foreign exchange future, is a futures contract to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price (exchange rate) that is fixed on the purchase date; see Foreign exchange derivative.
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Day trader
A day trader is a trader who adheres to a trading style called day trading.
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Dōjima Rice Exchange
The Dōjima Rice Exchange (堂島米市場, Dōjima kome ichiba, 堂島米会所, Dōjima kome kaisho), located in Osaka, was the center of Japan's system of rice brokers, which developed independently and privately in the Edo period and would be seen as the forerunners to a modern banking system.
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Delta One
Delta One products are financial derivatives that have no optionality and as such have a delta of (or very close to) one – meaning that for a given instantaneous move in the price of the underlying asset there is expected to be an identical move in the price of the derivative.
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Derivative (finance)
In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity.
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Discounting
Discounting is a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor, for a defined period of time, in exchange for a charge or fee.
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Dubai Mercantile Exchange
The Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) is a commodity exchange based in Dubai currently listing its flagship futures contract, DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract (OQD).
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Due diligence
Due diligence is an investigation of a business or person prior to signing a contract, or an act with a certain standard of care.
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Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic was a republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from the Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Equity derivative
In finance, an equity derivative is a class of derivatives whose value is at least partly derived from one or more underlying equity securities.
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Eurex Exchange
Eurex Exchange is an international exchange which primarily offers trading in European based derivatives and it is the largest European futures and options market.
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Euribor
The Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) is a daily reference rate, published by the European Money Markets Institute, based on the averaged interest rates at which Eurozone banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the euro wholesale money market (or interbank market).
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Eurodollar
Eurodollars are time deposits denominated in U.S. dollars at banks outside the United States, and thus are not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve.
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Euronext
Euronext NV is a European stock exchange seated in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Lisbon, Dublin and Paris.
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Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.
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Federal funds rate
In the United States, the federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight, on an uncollateralized basis.
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Finance
Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities (known as elements of the balance statement) over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty.
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Fine (penalty)
A fine or mulct is money that a court of law or other authority decides has to be paid as punishment for a crime or other offence.
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Foreign exchange market
The foreign exchange market (Forex, FX, or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies.
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Forward contract
In finance, a forward contract or simply a forward is a non-standardized contract between two parties to buy or to sell an asset at a specified future time at a price agreed upon today, making it a type of derivative instrument.
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Forward Markets Commission
The Forward Markets Commission (FMC) was the chief regulator of commodity futures markets in India.
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FTSE 100 Index
The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie", is a share index of the 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalisation.
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Fuel price risk management
A specialization of both financial risk management and oil price analysis – and similar to conventional risk management practice – fuel price risk management is a continual cyclic process that includes risk assessment, risk decision making, and the implementation of risk controls.
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Futures contract
In finance, a futures contract (more colloquially, futures) is a standardized forward contract, a legal agreement to buy or sell something at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future.
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Futures exchange
A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts; that is, a contract to buy specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future.
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Futures Industry Association
The Futures Industry Association (FIA) is a trade association in the United States composed of futures commission merchants.
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Gasoline
Gasoline (American English), or petrol (British English), is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in spark-ignited internal combustion engines.
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Gold as an investment
Of all the precious metals, gold is the most popular as an investment.
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Government bond
A government bond or sovereign bond is a bond issued by a national government, generally with a promise to pay periodic interest payments and to repay the face value on the maturity date.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry seed, with or without an attached hull or fruit layer, harvested for human or animal consumption.
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Grain Futures Act
The Grain Futures Act (ch. 369), is a United States federal law enacted September 21, 1922 involving the regulation of trading in certain commodity futures, and causing the establishment of the Grain Futures Administration, a predecessor organization to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Heating oil
Heating oil is a low viscosity, liquid petroleum product used as a fuel oil for furnaces or boilers in buildings.
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Hedge (finance)
A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment.
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Independent agencies of the United States government
Independent agencies of the United States federal government are those agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President.
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Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange is an American company that owns exchanges for financial and commodity markets, and operates 23 regulated exchanges and marketplaces.
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Interest rate future
An interest rate future is a financial derivative (a futures contract) with an interest-bearing instrument as the underlying asset.
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Interest rate swap
In finance, an interest rate swap (IRS) is an interest rate derivative (IRD).
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International Monetary Market
The International Monetary Market (IMM), a spin-off from the old Chicago Mercantile Exchange and largely the creation of Leo Melamed, is today one of four divisions of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest futures exchange in the United States, for the trading of futures contracts and options on futures.
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International Petroleum Exchange
The International Petroleum Exchange, now ICE Futures (since 2005-04-7), based in London, was one of the world's largest energy futures and options exchanges.
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Jute
Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.
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Kansas City Board of Trade
The Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), was an American commodity futures and options exchange regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Korea Exchange
Korea Exchange (KRX) is the sole securities exchange operator in South Korea.
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Law
Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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List of traded commodities
The following is a list of traded commodities.
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London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE, pronounced 'life') is a futures exchange based in London.
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London Metal Exchange
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the futures exchange with the world's largest market in options and futures contracts on base and other metals.
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Long (finance)
In finance, a long position in a financial instrument, means the holder of the position owns a positive amount of the instrument.
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Margin (finance)
In finance, margin is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit with a counterparty (most often their broker or an exchange) to cover some or all of the credit risk the holder poses for the counterparty.
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Mark-to-market accounting
Mark-to-market (MTM or M2M) or fair value accounting refers to accounting for the "fair value" of an asset or liability based on the current market price, or for similar assets and liabilities, or based on another objectively assessed "fair" value.
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Martingale (probability theory)
In probability theory, a martingale is a sequence of random variables (i.e., a stochastic process) for which, at a particular time in the realized sequence, the expectation of the next value in the sequence is equal to the present observed value even given knowledge of all prior observed values.
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Minneapolis Grain Exchange
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) was formed in 1881 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, as a regional cash marketplace to promote fair trade and to prevent trade abuses in wheat, oats and corn.
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Money market
As money became a commodity, the money market became a component of the financial markets for assets involved in short-term borrowing, lending, buying and selling with original maturities of one year or less.
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Montreal Exchange
The Montreal Exchange or MX (Bourse de Montréal, formerly Montreal Stock Exchange (MSE)) is a derivatives exchange, located in Montreal, that trades futures contracts and options on equities, indices, currencies, ETFs, energy and interest rates.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Mutual fund
A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.
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National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange
National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) is an online commodity exchange based in India.
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National Futures Association
NFA is the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry, including on-exchange traded futures, retail off-exchange foreign currency (forex) and OTC derivatives (swaps).
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Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
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New York Board of Trade
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT, renamed ICE Futures US in September, 2007), is a physical commodity futures exchange located in New York City.
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New York Mercantile Exchange
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is a commodity futures exchange owned and operated by CME Group of Chicago.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Normal backwardation
Normal backwardation, also sometimes called backwardation, is the market condition wherein the price of a commodities' forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.
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NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext, Inc. was a Euro-American multinational financial services corporation that operated multiple securities exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext and NYSE Arca (formerly known as ArcaEx).
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Oil-storage trade
The oil-storage trade, also referred to as contango, a market strategy in which large, often vertically-integrated oil companies purchase oil for immediate delivery and storage—when the price of oil is low— and hold it in storage until the price of oil increases.
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Onion Futures Act
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions.
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Open interest
Open interest (also known as open contracts or open commitments) refers to the total number of outstanding derivative contracts that have not been settled (offset by delivery).
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Option (finance)
In finance, an option is a contract which gives the buyer (the owner or holder of the option) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on a specified date, depending on the form of the option.
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Orange juice
Orange juice is the liquid extract of the orange tree fruit, produced by squeezing oranges.
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Osaka
() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.
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Osaka Securities Exchange
is the second largest securities exchange in Japan, in terms of amount of business handled.
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Outline of finance
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance: Finance – addresses the ways in which individuals and organizations raise and allocate monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.
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Over-the-counter (finance)
Over-the-counter (OTC) or off-exchange trading is done directly between two parties, without the supervision of an exchange.
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Palladium as an investment
Palladium as an investment is much like investments in other precious metals.
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Path dependence
Path dependence explains how the set of decisions one faces for any given circumstance is limited by the decisions one has made in the past or by the events that one has experienced, even though past circumstances may no longer be relevant.
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Performance bond
A performance bond, also known as a contract bond, is a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Platinum as an investment
Platinum as an investment has a much shorter history in the financial sector than does either gold or silver, which were known to ancient civilizations.
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Portfolio manager
A Portfolio Manager is a professional who is responsible for making investment decisions and carrying out investment activities on behalf of individuals or institutions.
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Position (finance)
In finance, a position is the amount of a particular security, commodity or currency held or owned by a person or entity.
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Prediction market
Prediction markets (also known as predictive markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures, event derivatives, or virtual markets) are exchange-traded markets created for the purpose of trading the outcome of events.
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Propane
Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula C3H8.
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Put option
In finance, a put or put option is a stock market device which gives the owner of a put the right, but not the obligation, to sell an asset (the underlying), at a specified price (the strike), by a predetermined date (the expiry or maturity) to a given party (the seller of the put).
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Rational pricing
Rational pricing is the assumption in financial economics that asset prices (and hence asset pricing models) will reflect the arbitrage-free price of the asset as any deviation from this price will be "arbitraged away".
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Reference rate
A reference rate is a rate that determines pay-offs in a financial contract and that is outside the control of the parties to the contract.
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Risk
Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value.
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Risk-free interest rate
The risk-free interest rate is the rate of return of a hypothetical investment with no risk of financial loss, over a given period of time.
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Risk-neutral measure
In mathematical finance, a risk-neutral measure (also called an equilibrium measure, or equivalent martingale measure) is a probability measure such that each share price is exactly equal to the discounted expectation of the share price under this measure.
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Rosario Board of Trade
The Rosario Board of Trade (Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, BCR) is a non-profit making association based in Rosario, in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
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S&P/TSX 60
The S&P/TSX 60 Index is a stock market index of 60 large companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Samurai
were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
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Seasonal spread trading
Seasonal spread traders are spread traders that take advantage of seasonal patterns by holding long and short positions in futures contracts simultaneously in the same or a related commodity markets.
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Securitization
Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
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Separately managed account
In the investment management industry, a separately managed account (SMA) is any of several different types of investment accounts.
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Shipping markets
The international shipping industry can be divided into four closely related shipping markets, each trading in a different commodity: the freight market, the sale and purchase market, the newbuilding market and the demolition market.
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Short (finance)
In finance, a short sale (also known as a short, shorting, or going short) is the sale of an asset (securities or other financial instrument) that the seller does not own.
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Silver as an investment
Silver may be used as an investment like other precious metals.
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Singapore Exchange
Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is an investment holding company located in Singapore and provides different services related to securities and derivatives trading and others.
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Singapore International Monetary Exchange
The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) was a futures exchange in Singapore.
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Single-stock futures
In finance, a single-stock future (SSF) is a type of futures contract between two parties to exchange a specified number of stocks in a company for a price agreed today (the futures price or the strike price) with delivery occurring at a specified future date, the delivery date.
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South African Futures Exchange
The South African Futures Exchange (Safex) is the futures exchange subsidiary of JSE Limited, the Johannesburg-based exchange.
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Speculation
Speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable at a future date.
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Spot contract
In finance, a spot contract, spot transaction, or simply spot, is a contract of buying or selling a commodity, security or currency for immediate settlement (payment and delivery) on the spot date, which is normally two business days after the trade date.
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Spot market
The spot market or cash market is a public financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery.
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Spread trade
In finance, a spread trade (also known as relative value trade) is the simultaneous purchase of one security and sale of a related security, called legs, as a unit.
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Stock
The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation is constituted of the equity stock of its owners.
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Stock market index
A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of a section of the stock market.
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Stock market index future
In finance, a stock market index future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index, such as the S&P 500.
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Strike price
In finance, the strike price (or exercise price) of an option is the fixed price at which the owner of the option can buy (in the case of a call), or sell (in the case of a put), the underlying security or commodity.
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Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
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Supply and demand
In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.
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Swap (finance)
A swap is a derivative contract where two parties exchange financial instruments.
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Swing trading
Swing trading is a speculative trading strategy in financial markets where a tradable asset is held for between one and several days in an effort to profit from price changes or 'swings'.
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Time preference
In economics, time preference (or time discounting, delay discounting, temporal discounting) is the current relative valuation placed on receiving a good at an earlier date compared with receiving it at a later date.
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Tin
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.
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TMX Group
TMX Group Limited is a Canadian financial services company that operates equities, fixed income, derivatives, and energy markets exchanges.
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Tokyo Commodity Exchange
Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc.
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Tokyo Financial Exchange
is a futures exchange and established in April 1989 under the Financial Futures Trading Law of Japan.
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Tokyo Stock Exchange
The, which is called or TSE/TYO for short, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan.
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Tracking error
In finance, tracking error or active risk is a measure of the risk in an investment portfolio that is due to active management decisions made by the portfolio manager; it indicates how closely a portfolio follows the index to which it is benchmarked.
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Tulip
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs).
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Tulip mania
Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637.
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Underlying
In finance, the underlying of a derivative is an asset, basket of assets, index, or even another derivative, such that the cash flows of the (former) derivative depend on the value of this underlying.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Treasury security
A United States Treasury security is an IOU from the US Government.
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Vegetable oil
Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are fats extracted from seeds, or less often, from other parts of fruits.
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VeraSun Energy
VeraSun Energy Corporation was a leading producer of renewable fuel.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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1256 Contract
A 1256 Contract is a term used by the Internal Revenue Service to denote any regulated futures contracts, foreign currency contracts, non-equity options (broad-based stock index options (including cash-settled ones), debt options, commodity futures options, and currency options), dealer equity options, dealer security futures contracts, and cash settled options (including euro-style index options).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract
