Meanings of speculative position in English

The definition will be important for speculative position limits.

The CFTC said the companies had violated speculative position limits and engaged in numerous noncompetitive trades in wheat.

The CFTC said that the companies had also violated speculative position limits, and that they had engaged in numerous noncompetitive trades in wheat.

They argued the CFTC did not provide an adequate cost-benefit analysis proving that speculative position limits were in fact mandatory under Dodd-Frank's statutory language.

Analysts and traders use it to gauge the size of speculative positions in markets.

Triggering those exemptions would mean giving up speculative positions.

Underlying this separate and unequal treatment is an assumption that hedges are more socially useful than purely speculative positions.

In recent months commodity prices have fallen back, partly because financial investors have liquidated speculative positions in the financial crisis.

- Banks and hedge funds to take speculative positions.

Investors have been buying BofA puts over the last two weeks, which could be a hedge or speculative positions, Kinahan said.

Speculative positions in gasoline have moved to a record net short position as hedge funds bet on an ongoing gasoline supply glut, he added.

July 2009 - LME says it has no plans to publish outstanding speculative positions on its contracts nor the names of dominant position holders.

The regulator said Daniels and Taylor were trading rice futures in concert under a private agreement, and should have been aggregating their speculative positions.

After prices surged in 2008, lawmakers pushed the CFTC to craft limits on the total number of speculative positions traders can hold in commodities.

While its resilience has confounded some market players, traders said the euro was always at risk of being squeezed higher given record short speculative positions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday proposed new rules that would limit big traders' speculative positions in energy futures.