The last price paid or the closing price for a commodity on any trading day. The clearing house determines a firm's net gains or losses, the margin requirements, and the next day's price limits, based on the options and futures contract settlement price. Also referred to as Closing Price. Thin liquidity traded options contracts may be exchanged at the theoretical value.
Settlement Price
More terms under S
- Scalp
- Short
- Speculator
- Spot
- Spreading
- Stop Order
- SEC
- Selling Rate
- Selling Short
- Short Position
- Simple Moving Average (SMA)
- Slippage
- Society for World-Wide Interbank (SWIFT)
- Sovereign Risk
- Speculation
- Spot market
- Spread
- Stagflation
- Sterling
- Stochastic oscillator
- Stop price
- Swap
- Swiss National Bank (SNB)
- Swissy
- Systematic risk
Part of the Trading glossary. Definitions are general explanations, not investment advice.