What does the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission mean by “Commercial”?

By DayTrader | August 11, 2009
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The CFTC reports a weekly Commitment of Traders report for commodity futures. They split the commitment between “non-commercial” and “commercial”. Is non-commercial individual investors? Is commercial investment banks and funds?

Bryan
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One Comment

  1. zman492
    Posted August 14, 2009 at 1:01 am | Permalink

    The glossary on their site they define commercial as an entity involved in the production processing or merchandising of commodity.
    The production processing or merchandising of commodity.