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Gilt Futures

A futures contract that has a gilt as underlying. Gilt, by definition, is a fixed-rate debt security issued by the...

SONIA Futures

A cash settled short-term interest rate (STIR) futures contracts in which the underlying is the average sterling overnight index average...

FUT CMP

It stands for futures current market price (CMP); the price at which the underlying asset is being traded (bought or...

Gold Futures

A futures contract that has gold as an underlying. Gold futures are standardized, exchange-traded contracts in which the buyer (contract...

Silver Futures

A futures contract that has silver as an underlying. Silver futures are standardized, exchange-traded contracts in which the buyer (contract...

VM

It stands for variation margin; the extra money which is required to top off the balance in a margin account...

Cash Commodity

The physical or actual commodity, as differentiated from the futures contract in which such a commodity is used to be…

Futures-Style Margining

In relation to a futures-style option (a futures contract on an option-like payoff), and similar to a standard futures contract,...

Stack

A position which is centered on a specific delivery or expiration date. For example, a futures position which consists of…

Called

When a call option is exercised, it is said, then, to have been called. For an option on a physical…