Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Trading Industry
- The Players
- Buy Side "Buys
Liquidity Services"
- Investors
- Borrowers
- Hedgers
- Asset exchangers
- Gamblers
- Sell Side "Provides
liquidity services"
- Dealers
- Brokers
- Broker-dealers
- Trade Facilitators
- Exchanges
- Provides a forum where traders meet
- Clearing and Settlement Agents,
Depositories and Custodians
- Facilitates settlement and
prevents problems with
creditworthiness (default)
- Netting (default 1,
default all)
- Improves efficiency
- Decrease default risk
- Clearing Houses
- Facilitates settlement of futures,
options and swaps
- Trading Instruments
- Real Assets
- Spot commodities
- IP
- Real Estate
- Pollution rights
- Financial Assets
- Stocks and warrants
- Bonds
- Trust units
- ETFs
- Currencies
- Derivative Contracts
- Futures
- Agricultural Commodities
- Financial Instruments
- Non-agricultural commodities
- Standardised contract to deliver
commodity or asset, at time T, and
for $x
- Forwards
- Options
- The right to buy or sell
underlying asset at time T
for $x
- Calls
- Puts
- American
- European
- Swaps
- Agreement to exchange cash flow,
at time T and under n rules
- Plain vanilla interest rate swaps
- Cross currency swaps
- Contracts for Difference (CFD)
- Seller pays to buyer difference in price of asset
between time of contract and time of maturity
- If diff is negative buyer then pays to seller
- Speculation on price movements
- Upfront capital required to control position
- Return > capital
required (attractive
investment)
- Hybrid Instruments
- Insurance Contracts
- Gambling Contracts
- Market Regulation
- Government Regulatory Agencies (like ASIC)
- Self regulatory agencies (like exchanges)
- Professional organisations (like CFAs)
- International regulations (like Basel Committee)