Major suppliers – such as crude oil companies -, large, influential processors – such as refineries – and, in a broader sense, financially strong speculators who hold contracts (positions held by trade interests or well-financed speculators). As a rule, however, it is assumed that the market participant concerned actually wants to sell or buy the underlying (a strong hand is assumed to take possession of the underlying, but they are the overwhelming minority in futures trading). – See hedging, absorption phase, option, naked, position, uncovered, put, return, implied, risk, commodity price risk, commodity futures contract, collateral, speculator, speculation, futures speculator, fungibility, commodity futures contract. – Cf. Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report, June 2012, p. 34 f. (strong hands in the market for crude oil futures and their contribution to market stability).
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