Open protest was the main method of transmission of trading orders by stock traders.
Fierce competition on marketplaces has made the job very efficient, but e-commerce has proven to be even more efficient.
Successful traders in open protest have relied on temporal information asymmetries to succeed, but greater information parity helps both retail and institutional traders profit from greater trading efficiency and greater participation.
Futures contracts are financial derivatives that oblige the buyer to purchase some underlying asset (or the seller to sell that asset) at a predetermined price and date in the future.
A horizontal spread is a simultaneous long and short position in derivatives for the same underlying asset and strike price, but with different expiration dates.
centner (abbreviated as CWT) is a standard unit of weight or mass used in some commodity markets. It can also be used to determine the price of small batches of goods.
Tick size - the minimum change in the price increment of a trading instrument.
– Tick sizes used to be in fractions (e.g. 1/16th of $1), but today they are mostly decimal based and expressed in cents.