Trading Basics
Broker
Provides access to the financial markets for traders.
Brokers come in all shapes and sizes.
Other Trading Basics
Cash or Spot Market
Also known as a spot market, cash markets are different to futures contracts, as commodities are traded immediately for cash at the current market price.
American Option
An option that can get exercised at any time during its life.
European options can only be exercised at the end.
Black Box Trading
Also referred to as automatic or algorithmic trading.
The trader does not need to see the system in operation, in effect its a black box.
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