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Re: surebob post# 22158

Tuesday, 01/25/2011 7:54:04 AM

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:54:04 AM

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Do you even know what a SPOT MARKET is?

ROTFLMAO...at you!

The spot market or cash market is a public financial market, in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery. It contrasts with a futures market in which delivery is due at a later date. A spot market can be:

* an organized market, an exchange or
* "over the counter", OTC.

Spot markets can operate wherever the infrastructure exists to conduct the transaction. The spot market for most instruments exists primarily on the Internet.
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* 1 Exchange
* 2 OTC
* 3 Examples
o 3.1 Spot Forex
o 3.2 Energy Spot
* 4 See also
* 5 References

[edit] Exchange

Securities (i.e. commodities) are traded on exchanges using recent market price.
[edit] OTC

In the over the counter market, trades are based on contracts made directly between two parties, and not subject to the rules of an exchange. The contract terms are agreed between the parties and may be non-standard. The price will probably not be published.
[edit] Examples
[edit] Spot Forex

The spot foreign exchange market has a 2 day delivery date, originally due to the time it would take to move cash from one bank to another. Most speculative retail forex trading is done as spot transaction on an online trading platform.
[edit] Energy Spot

The spot energy market allows producers of surplus energy to instantly locate available buyers for this energy, negotiate prices within milliseconds and deliver actual energy to the customer just a few minutes later. Spot markets can be either privately operated or controlled by industry organizations or government agencies. They frequently attract speculators, since spot market prices are known to the public almost as soon as deals are transacted. Examples of energy spot markets for natural gas in Europe are the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) in the Netherlands and the National Balancing Point (NBP) in the United Kingdom.