Futures (Commodities & Derivatives) Terms

  1. Certificated Stock

  2. Change

  3. Changer

  4. Cheapest to Deliver - CTD

  5. Chicago Board Of Trade - CBOT

  6. Chicago Mercantile Exchange - CME

  7. China Securities Regulatory Commission - CSRC

  8. Chooser Option

  9. Circus Swap

  10. Clearing Fee

  11. Clearing House

  12. Clearing Member Trade Agreement - CMTA

  13. Cliquet

  14. Closing Range

  15. Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange - CSCE

  16. COMEX

  17. Commercial

  18. Commercial Grain Stock

  19. Commercial Hedger

  20. Commercial Trader

  21. Commission House

  22. Commitments of Traders Report - COT

  23. Commodities Exchange

  24. Commoditization

  25. Commodity

  26. Commodity ETF

  27. Commodity Exchange Act - CEA

  28. Commodity Futures Contract

  29. Commodity Futures Modernization Act - CFMA

  30. Commodity Futures Trading Commission - CFTC

  31. Commodity Index

  32. Commodity Market

  33. Commodity Paper

  34. Commodity Pool

  35. Commodity Pool Operator - CPO

  36. Commodity Price Risk

  37. Commodity Research Bureau Index - CRB

  38. Commodity Selection Index - CSI

  39. Commodity Swap

  40. Commodity Trading Advisor - CTA

  41. Commodity-Product Spread

  42. Compound Option

  43. Confusion Of Goods

  44. Constant Maturity Swap - CMS

  45. Constructive Sale Rule - Section 1259

  46. Contango

  47. Contract For Differences - CFD

  48. Contract Market

  49. Contract Month

  50. Contract Size

  51. Contract Unit

  52. Convenience Yield

  53. Convergence

  54. Conversion

  55. Cooling Degree Day - CDD

  56. Copenhagen Stock Exchange - CSE

  57. Corner

  58. Cost Basis

  59. Cost Of Tender

  60. Counterparty

  61. Country Basket

  62. Covered Call

  63. Crack

  64. Crack Spread

  65. Credit Derivative

  66. Credit Market

  67. Credit Risk

  68. Credit Spread

  69. Crop Year

  70. Cross Hedge

  71. Crush Spread

  72. Currency Binary

  73. Currency Certificate

  74. Currency ETF

  75. Currency Forward

  76. Currency Futures

  77. Currency Swap

  78. Currency Trading Platform

  79. Currency Trading Software

  80. Current Delivery

  81. Current Exposure Method

  82. Customer Type Indicator Codes - CTI

  83. Cylinder

  84. Daily Trading Limit

  85. Dalian Commodities Exchange

  86. Dalian Commodities Exchange - DCE

  87. DAX

  88. De-hedge

  89. Deal Ticket

  90. Dealer Option

  91. Debit Spread

  92. Debt For Bond Swap

  93. Deck

  94. Default

  95. Deferred Month

  96. Deferred Option Month

  97. Deliverable Grades

  98. Delivery

  99. Delivery Date

  100. Delivery Instrument

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