Open contracts
Contracts which have been bought or sold without the transaction having been completed by subsequent sale or purchase, or by making or taking actual delivery of the financial instrument or physical commodity. ...
Open contracts
Contracts that have been bought or sold without completion of the transaction by subsequent sale or purchase, or by making or taking actual delivery of the financial instrument or physical commodity.
The number of open contracts specified by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at which one must begin reporting total positions by delivery month to the authorized exchange and/or the CFTC.
Reporting Level ...
Open book See: Unmatched book Open contracts Contracts that have been bought or sold without completion of the transaction by subsequent sale or purchase, ...
Related: open contracts Position diagram Diagram showing the possible payoffs from a derivative investment.
Related: Open contracts. Position building Buying shares to build up a long position or selling shares to create a short position in a particular security or group of securities.
Related: open contracts Position limits Applies to derivative products. Maximum position available in any one future or option contract for a given institution, for "bona fide" futures hedgers, there are no "position limits.
Open interest is a record of the total number of open contracts in any particular commodity or options market on any given day. You have an open contract when you enter a futures or options contract.
Open Interest - Is the amount of open contracts for the futures and options markets. This amount can fluctuate throughout the day and day-by-day.
Open interest (also known as open contracts or open commitments) refers to the total number of derivative contracts, like futures and options, ...
POSITION
The net total of a trader's open contracts, either long or short, in
a particular underlying commodity.
POSITION LIMIT
For a single trader or firm, the maximum number of allowable
open contracts with the same underlying commodity.
The total of an option trader's open contracts in a particular underlying security. For example, a purchaser of a futures contract has a long position, while a seller of a futures contract has a short position.
Positive periods ...
The sum of a trader's open contracts or trades in a particular instrument.
Premium ...
number of open contracts) on a daily basis. At expiration, the CH guarantees the obligation referred to in the contract.
Bibliography
Hull J. (2008) Options, futures and other derivatives, Prentice Hall.
Oldani C.
the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into. The buyer of a commodity is said to have a long position and the seller of a commodity is said to have a short position. Related: open contracts ...
 See also: Exercise price, Options contract, Expense, Physical commodity, Long position
  
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