Investment Terms: V

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This article is from the Investment Terms.

Variable Limit:
According to the Chicago Board of Trade rules, an expanded allowable price range set during volatile markets.
Variation Margin:
During periods of great market volatility or in the case of high-risk accounts, additional margin deposited by a clearing member firm to an exchange clearinghouse.
Versus Cash:
See Exchange For Physicals.
Vertical Spread:
Buying and selling puts or calls of the same expiration month but different strike prices.
Volatility:
A measurement of the change in price over a given time period. It is often expressed as a percentage and computed as the annualized standard deviation of percentage change in daily price.
Volume:
The number of purchases or sales of a commodity futures contract made during a specified period of time, often the total transactions for one trading day.

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