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Factors Affecting Oil Prices Crude Oil prices are determined by commodities traders who buy oil futures contracts in the commodities market. These contracts are agreements to buy or sell oil at a specific date in the future for an agreed-upon price. They are executed on the floor of a commodity exchange by traders and investors ...

Haircut The margin or difference between the actual market value of a security and the value assessed by the lending side of a transaction (ie. a repo). Hamster Option A form of Range Option that SBC created. I can describe it no better than Professor S. Trautmann explained it to ...