Trading Basics
Automated Trading
Where the buying and selling of securities is automated and driven by algorithms.
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.
Contango
This is when the futures price of a security is above the cash price at maturity. The opposite is backwardation.
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