Glossary
- Call (warrant)
- Cancelled order
- Cap (investment and leverage products)
- Capital increase
- Capital market
- Capital reduction
- Capital stock
- Cash dividend
- Cash market
- Cash settlement (warrants)
- Cash settlement price
- Cashflow
- CDAX
- Central bank
- Certificate
- Certificate of renewal
- Changes to the composition of an index
- Chart
- Chart analysis
- Classic All Share
- Clearing
- Close out
- Closed-end fund
- Closing Price
- Coco bond
- Collective custody
- Commercial paper
- Commission
- Commission trading
- Commodity futures
- Commodity futures exchange
- Common gap
- Compliance guidelines
- Conditional capital increase
- Consumer Confidence
- Continuous trading
- Convertible bond
- Cooperative stock exchanges
- Corporate bond
- Correlation coefficient
- Counter transaction
- Countercyclical investment
- Countercyclical stocks
- Country risk
- Coupon
- Covered warrant
- Creation
- Credit risk
- Creditworthiness
- Cum
- Currency bond
- Cyclical shares
- Cyclical stocks
Commodity futures
Derivatives contract on real goods such as raw materials or agricultural products
A commodity future obligates the buyer to purchase, and the seller to deliver, a good such as a raw material for an agreed-upon price on a specified settlement date.
The earliest derivatives transactions were commodity futures. Long ago, farmers wished to protect themselves against fluctuations in the price of their crops. To do so, they entered into futures contracts to ensure that they would be able to sell their products at a favorable price the following year.
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