One who speculates on price changes, through buying and selling futures contracts, in order to make profits. The speculator does not use the futures market in connection with the production, hedging, processing, or handling of a product.
Speculator
More terms under S
- Scalp
- Settlement Price
- Short
- 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.