Description
- Calendar Spread
- Call Option
A contract that entitles the buyer/taker to buy a fixed quantity of a commodity at a stipulated basis or striking price at any time up to the expiration of the option. The buyer pays a premium to the seller/grantor for this contract.
- Canceling Order
An order that deletes a customer's previous order.
- Carrying Charge
- For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage
space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity.
- For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage
- Carryover
Grain and oilseed commodities not consumed during the marketing year and
remaining in storage at year's end. These stocks are "carried over" into the - Cash Commodity
An actual physical commodity someone is buying or selling, e.g., soybeans, corn,
gold, silver, Treasury bonds, etc. Also referred to as actuals<br> - Cash ContractA sales agreement for either immediate or future delivery of the actual product
- Cash MarketA place where people buy and sell the actual commodities, i.e., grain elevator, bank, etc. See Spot and Forward Contract.
- Cash Settlement:
Transactions generally involving index-based futures contracts that are settled
in cash based on the actual value of the index on the last trading day, in
contrast to those that specify the delivery of a commodity or financial - Certificate of Deposit (CD)
A time deposit with a specific maturity evidenced by a certificate
- Charting:
The use of charts to analyze market behavior and anticipate future price
movements. Those who use charting as a trading method plot such factors as high, - Cheap:
Colloquialism implying that a commodity is underpriced
- Cheapest to Deliver:
A method to determine which particular cash debt instrument is most profitable
to deliver against a futures contract. - Clear:The process by which a clearinghouse maintains records of all trades and settles margin flow on a daily mark-to-market basis for its clearing member.
- Clearing Corporation
An independent corporation that settles all trades made at the Jakarta Futures Exchange acting as a guarantor for all trades cleared by it, reconciles all clearing member firm accounts each day to ensure that all gains have been credited and all l
- Clearinghouse: (lihat: Lembaga Kliring)
An agency or separate corporation of a futures exchange that is responsible for
settling trading accounts, clearing trades, collecting and maintaining margin - Clearing Margin
Financial safeguards to ensure that clearing members (usually companies or
corporations) perform on their customers' open futures and options contracts. - Clearing Member
A member of an exchange clearinghouse. Memberships in clearing organizations are
usually held by companies. Clearing members are responsible for the financial
commitments of customers that clear through their firm. - Closing Price:
See Settlement Price.
- Closing Range
A range of prices at which buy and sell transactions took place during the
market close. - Commission Fee
A fee charged by a broker for executing a transaction. Also referred to as
brokerage fee.