1. Cash or goods used to generate income either by investing in a business or a different income property.
2. The net worth of a business; that is, the amount by which its assets exceed its liabilities.
3. The money, property, and other valuables which collectively represent the wealth of an individual or business.
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You can check our Commodities Data Model.

A Commodity is any raw material.

1. In other words, it is a physical substance, such as food, grains, and metals, which is interchangeable with 
   another product of the same type, and which investors buy or sell, usually through futures contracts. 

   They can be either soft Commodities, such as Coffee, Sugar and Wheat, or hard Commodities, such as Gold and Platinum. 

   The price of the commodity is subject to supply and demand. 

   Risk is actually the reason exchange trading of the basic agricultural products began. 
   For example, a farmer risks the cost of producing a product ready for market at sometime in the future because 
   he doesn't know what the selling price will be.
2. More generally, a product which trades on a commodity exchange; this would also include foreign currencies and 
   financial instruments and indexes.

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A standardized, transferable, exchange-traded contract that requires delivery of a commodity, bond, currency, or stock index, 
at a specified price, on a specified future date. 

Unlike options, futures convey an obligation to buy. 

The risk to the holder is unlimited, and because the payoff pattern is symmetrical, the risk to the seller is unlimited as well. 
Dollars lost and gained by each party on a futures contract are equal and opposite. 
In other words, futures trading is a zero-sum game. 

Futures contracts are forward contracts, meaning they represent a pledge to make a certain transaction at a future date. 
The exchange of assets occurs on the date specified in the contract. 

Futures are distinguished from generic forward contracts in that they contain standardized terms, trade on a formal exchange, 
are regulated by overseeing agencies, and are guaranteed by clearinghouses. 
Also, in order to insure that payment will occur, futures have a margin requirement that must be settled daily. 

Finally, by making an offsetting trade, taking delivery of goods, or arranging for an exchange of goods, futures contracts can be closed. 
Hedgers often trade futures for the purpose of keeping price risk in check. also called futures contract


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An exchange of interest payments on a specific principal amount. 
This is a counterparty agreement, and so can be standardized to the requirements of the parties involved. 
An interest rate swap usually involves just two parties, but occasionally involves more. Often, an interest rate swap 
involves exchanging a fixed amount per payment period for a payment that is not fixed (the floating side of the swap 
would usually be linked to another interest rate, often the LIBOR). 

In an interest rate swap, the principal amount is never exchanged, it is just a notional principal amount. 
Also, on a payment date, it is normally the case that only the difference between the two payment amounts is turned over 
to the party that is entitled to it, as opposed to exchanging the full interest amounts. 
Thus, an interest rate swap usually involves very little cash outlay.

1. Using money borrowed from a broker/dealer to purchase securities; here also called buying on margin.
2. The amount of equity required for an investment in securities purchased on credit.
3. The face value of a loan minus the value of the pledged collateral.

Legal tender, cash.

The market for Money Instruments with a maturity date of less than one year.

Borrowing and lending in multiple currencies, for example to eliminate currency risk by 
locking in the value of a foreign currency transaction in one's own country's currency.

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