Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the Grain Trade, Volume 7

accounts average open Average quantity open Board of Trade bought buying card data cash grain cent Chicago Board Chicago futures clearing members commission houses corn and oats crop customers dealers December delivery month difference effect elapsed days Federal Trade Commission figures future contracts future trading futures market gains and losses grain futures grain trade groups of clearing hedger hedging January-June July July-December July-June Kansas City long side mills Minneapolis nonmember October open interest open thousand bushels open trades operations options ordinal analysis period pit scalpers pit traders profit purchases and sales quantity open thousand Ratio to transactions regards relation result roman type same-day trades Saturdays scalping trades selling September short selling short side short trades shows sold speculative spreading Sums of ordinals TABLE terminal elevators three grains tion trading in wheat transactions per day volume of trading Wheat Corn Oats wheat futures wire houses