Spot trading refers to transactions in financial markets for instant delivery or “on the spot.” Spot trades typically settle within a few business days of the deal being struck. The forex market is ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. The term spot market refers to the place where financial instruments are traded for cash for ...

The average daily foreign exchange transaction volume of banks in the first quarter reached $102.65 billion, setting a new ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

On April 9, 2025, the Markets Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight (collectively, the “Divisions”) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) published a Staff ...

Green, Jerry R. "Temporary General Equilibrium in a Sequential Trading Model with Spot and Futures Transactions." Econometrica 41, no. 6 (November 1973): 1103–1123.