These forex dealers offer well-heeled clients access to forex forwards and options in addition to spot trading.
Finally, the emergence of cloud exchanges for spot trading could lead to a speculative futures market, bringing a whole new approach to risk management.
It also suggests a role for new marketplaces that facilitate the spot trading of insight, and deal room services that allow for private information brokering.
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Regulators hope that as more derivatives trade on exchanges, it will be easier to spot suspicious trading patterns across asset classes.
Rich and Green, who essentially invented spot-market trading in oil, aroused the scrutiny of the U.S. Justice Department for their shady Middle Eastern trades in the 1970s.
Most online forex traders have accounts with retail off-exchange forex brokers, most of whom only offer trading in the forex spot market.
Pound futures are trading at a discount to spot prices, a reflection of the fact that short-term interest rates are higher in London than they are here.
Spot gold prices were confined to a trading range that was the tightest in circa 100 days as the summer doldrums and the tug-o-war actions between the bulls and the bears made their presence felt in the trading patterns for the precious metal.
B2B exchanges are also starting to make some headway in trading contracts, having realised that spot markets, though easy to enter, are usually too small.
For distant exchanges, a spot in an Equinix center makes them local to trading desks in Chicago or New York, even if they are located in Tokyo or Sydney.
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That is, when the futures markets get out of synch with the cash market for stocks trading on stock exchanges, the computers instantly spot the difference and pounce, buying one and selling the other for a few minutes, which brings them back into synch.
Spot gold futures have plunged nearly 4% during the past two trading sessions, accelerating a steady 6-week decline.
The spot shows an Eskimo man getting in hot water with his wife for trading in his dog sled for a Kizashi, which he enjoys cruising across the frozen landscape with his dogs inside.
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The currency is closely monitored by the Central Bank of China and in the spot market, is allowed to rise or fall by 1 percent from the set parity rate each trading day.
Genco also has an ownership interest in Baltic Trading Limited ( BALT), a publicly traded company whose vessels are involved more heavily in the spot market where rates are more volatile.
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