Futures (Commodities & Derivatives) Terms

  1. Delivery Month

  2. Delivery Notice

  3. Delivery Option

  4. Delivery Point

  5. Delivery Price

  6. Delta Hedging

  7. Deposit

  8. Derivative

  9. Derivative Product Company - DPC

  10. Derivatives Transaction Execution Facility - DTEF

  11. Differential

  12. Dojima Rice Exchange

  13. Domestic Box Office Receipt (DBOR) Futures Contracts

  14. Double Hedging

  15. Double Witching

  16. Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index - DJ-AIGCI

  17. Dual Trading

  18. e-CBOT

  19. E-Micro Forex Futures

  20. E-Mini

  21. Earning The Points

  22. Economic Derivative

  23. Eligible Commercial Entity

  24. Eligible Contract Participant

  25. Emirates Interbank Offered Rate - EIBOR

  26. Energy Derivatives

  27. Energy Risk Professional - ERP

  28. Equity Capital Market - ECM

  29. Equity Derivative

  30. Equity Swap

  31. Equity-Linked Security - ELKS

  32. ETF Futures And Options

  33. EUREX

  34. Euro ETF

  35. Eurodollar

  36. Euronext

  37. Eurostrip

  38. Even Lot

  39. Evening Up

  40. Exchange of Futures for Cash

  41. Excluded Commodity

  42. Exempt Commodity

  43. Exhaustion

  44. Expiration Date

  45. Extendable Swap

  46. Fail

  47. Failure To Deliver

  48. Fair Value

  49. Fast Tape

  50. Feed Ratio

  51. Financial Information Exchange - FIX

  52. Financial Services Authority - FSA

  53. Finding And Development - F&D

  54. FINEX

  55. First Notice Day

  56. Five Against Bond Spread - FAB

  57. Five Against Note Spread - FAN

  58. Fixed Price

  59. Fixing

  60. Flip

  61. Floating Price

  62. Floor Trader - FT

  63. Floortion

  64. Foreign Exchange Dealers Coalition - FXDC

  65. Forex - FX

  66. Forex Charts

  67. Forex Futures

  68. Form 6781: Gains And Losses From Section 1256 Contracts And Straddles

  69. Formula Method

  70. Forward Booking

  71. Forward Commitment

  72. Forward Contract

  73. Forward Delivery

  74. Forward Discount

  75. Forward Exchange Contract

  76. Forward Margin

  77. Forward Market

  78. Forward Premium

  79. Forward Price

  80. Forward Rate

  81. Forward Rate Agreement - FRA

  82. Forward Spread

  83. Forward Swap

  84. Forwardation

  85. Fraption

  86. Free Alongside - FAS

  87. Freight Derivatives

  88. Front Month

  89. Full Carry

  90. Full Charge

  91. Fungibility

  92. Furthest Out

  93. Futures

  94. Futures Bundle

  95. Futures Commission Merchant - FCM

  96. Futures Contract

  97. Futures Equivalent

  98. Futures Exchange

  99. Futures Industry Association - FIA

  100. Futures Market

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