exchange versus cash Definition

exchange versus cash

Definition

The exchange of a specified quantity of a cash commodity for an equivalent quantity of futures, often done by two traders having opposite hedged positions that each wants to offset. also called exchange against actuals, exchange for physical, exchange of spot.

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