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noncommercial trader

A category of traders who use the futures market for speculative reasons. Noncommercial traders include individuals, hedge funds and other investors who seek to profit from movements in the price of a futures contract before it reaches maturity. The term is used by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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