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October 2007

Commodity Derivatives Challenge

Take a moment out of your hectic workday to challenge your knowledge of the trading industry. This month's challenge game features factoids from our bestselling introductory web-based course: A Guided Tour of Commodity Derivatives.

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The answers to the questions below are taken from A Guided Tour of Commodity Derivatives. For more information on any of our web-based offerings, please click here.

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  1. Both parties involved in a physical transaction need to agree on a:
    1. Swap
    2. Call
    3. Price
    4. FPut

  2. How you specify the actual commodity is known as:
    1. Commodity delivery
    2. Commodity quantity
    3. Commodity quality
    4. Payment terms

  3. Exchanged-traded derivatives tend to be highly standardized, while over-the-counter derivatives tend to be customized.
    1. True
    2. False

  4. Anything a market can place a value on and can be traded is a:
    1. Possession
    2. Derivative
    3. Valuable
    4. Commodity

  5. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a physical transaction?
    1. Payment terms
    2. Commodity price
    3. Value
    4. Commodity quantity

  6. Over-the-counter derivatives have which of the following characteristics:
    1. Customized
    2. Generally unregulatedr
    3. Prices are not transparent
    4. There is counter-party risk
    5. All of the above

  7. Derivatives can be broadly broken down into which two categories?
    1. Liquid and transparent
    2. Exchange-traded and over-the counter
    3. Underlying and risky
    4. Financial instrument and synthetics
     

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