Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Common terminology in futures and Commodity Trading

Commodity Markets
A product is a market where generic products are bought and sold with mobile contracts. Examples of raw materials: corn, wheat, coffee, pork bellies, cocoa, soybeans, oats, live cattle, crude oil, natural gas, gold, silver and so on.

Contract
Purchase and sale of goods is carried out in the contracts. The contract detailed provisions, including descriptions, quantity, unit price and delivery time.

> Trading
Trading means buying and selling contracts.

Vs Commodity Futures Trading Trading
commodity trading and futures trading is the same. When futures trading commodity in the trade you are.

The Commodity Exchange
exchange of goods is a central place in which the purchase and sale of goods, instead. The exchange of commodities the world's largesthe Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). There are quite a bit 'all over the world.

Mini Contracts
Trading is an alternative to mini-contracts model contracts for trading and is smaller in size, between one fifth and half the amount of a standard contract. Mini contracts are traded on the Chicago Commodity Exchange MidAmerican (Midama).

Model Contracts
Standard dimensions of futures contracts, mostly in relation tospecific product. Example:
- A contract has 5,000 bushels of wheat
- A contract has 1000 ounces of gold
- A contract with 160 000 cubic meters of wood is

Contango
Contango describes the implementation costs associated with the months of different prices for the same product. For example, a product supplied in eight months, the overall costs more to be delivered (the cost of storage) than a product within two months.

Trading month
EachThe product has specific months of negotiation and not all the same thing. For example, oil is trading in each calendar month. Soybeans were in January and every two months.

Spot market
It 'became known as "futures market provided the meaning and cash paid for" on site "o.

This month is the place this month.
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