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A commodity broker is a firm or an individual who executes orders to buy or sell commodity contracts on behalf of the clients and charges them a commission. A firm or individual who trades for his own account is called a trader. Commodity contracts include futures, options, and similar financial derivatives.
Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using customer funds) to make a profit for itself.
A commodity trading advisor (CTA) is US financial regulatory term for an individual or organization who is retained by a fund or individual client to provide advice and services related to trading in futures contracts, commodity options and/or swaps. [1] [2] They are responsible for the trading within managed futures accounts.
Commodity traders are people or companies who speculate and trade in commodities as diverse as metals and spices. Historical. Fuggers [1] Jacques Cœur [1]
Futures contracts for agricultural commodities have been traded in the U.S. for more than 150 years and have been under federal regulation since the 1920s. [7] The Grain Futures Act of 1922 set the basic authority and was changed by the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.).
Commissions tend to be higher at full-service brokerage firms than at discount brokers, however. Examples of companies that offer full-service brokerage accounts include: Merrill
In January 2019, Marex Spectron announced that it had acquired London-based trading firm CSC Commodities from BGC European Holdings. [14] In December 2019, the Group announced it had acquired London-based Marquee Oil, [15] a physical oil broker. In March 2020 the Group acquired Tangent Trading, [16] a scrap metal trading firm.
MF Global, formerly known as Man Financial, was a major global financial derivatives broker, or commodities brokerage firm that went bankrupt in 2011.MF Global provided exchange-traded derivatives, such as futures and options as well as over-the-counter products such as contracts for difference (CFDs), foreign exchange and spread betting.