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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Commodity trading house?

Definition 1.4 Markets III: Commodities, Energy and Crypto · Chapter 1 — Physical Commodity Markets

A commodity trading house is a firm whose business is to buy physical commodities and resell them, earning the difference between their value in one place, time or form and their value in another, and hedging the flat price with paper.

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