Futures (Commodities & Derivatives) Terms

  1. Super Hedging

  2. Swap

  3. Swap Bank

  4. Swap Curve

  5. Swap Rate

  6. Swap Spread

  7. Swap Transferring Risk With Participating Element - STRIPE

  8. Sweet Crude

  9. Switch

  10. Switching

  11. Synthetic CDO

  12. Synthetic Forward Contract

  13. Synthetic Futures Contract

  14. T. Boone Pickens

  15. TAPO

  16. Ted Spread

  17. Termination Date

  18. Tick Size

  19. Time Decay

  20. Total Return Swap

  21. Toxic Assets

  22. Trade Date

  23. Trading Desk

  24. Transaction

  25. Translation Risk

  26. Treasury Index

  27. Treasury Lock

  28. Triple Witching

  29. Troy Ounce

  30. U.S. Dollar Index - USDX

  31. Ultra ETF

  32. Unbiased Predictor

  33. Uncovered Interest Arbitrage

  34. Underlying

  35. Underlying Asset

  36. Underlying Security

  37. United States Natural Gas Fund - UNG

  38. Unlimited Risk

  39. Unparted Bullion

  40. Unsuitable (Unsuitability)

  41. Uptick Rule

  42. Value Date

  43. Vanilla Option

  44. Variable Interest Entity - VIE

  45. Variable Price Limit

  46. Variance Swap

  47. Variation Margin

  48. Vasicek Interest Rate Model

  49. Vault Receipt

  50. Vega Neutral

  51. Visible Supply

  52. Volatility Swap

  53. Volume Of Trade

  54. Warehouse Receipt

  55. Warrant

  56. Warrant Coverage

  57. Warrant Premium

  58. Wasting Asset

  59. Weak Hands

  60. Weather Derivative

  61. Weather Future

  62. Weighted Average Rating Factor - WARF

  63. West Texas Intermediate - WTI

  64. Wide Basis

  65. Widow Maker

  66. Wild Card Option

  67. Wild Card Play

  68. Winnipeg Commodities Exchange - WCE

  69. Witching Hour

  70. Writer

  71. Xetra

  72. Yield-Based Option

  73. Zero Basis Risk Swap - ZEBRA

  74. Zero Cost Collar

  75. Zero Coupon Inflation Swap

  76. Zero Coupon Swap

  77. Zero-Investment Portfolio

  78. Zero-Sum Game

  79. ZEW Economic Sentiment

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