The determinant that influence the price of futures crude palm oil in Malaysian market derivatives / Siti Amirah Zulkifli

The futures market which is the place that the people can trade the futures contract known as financial exchange centre. The futures contract is a contract about the people or company make a purchase the specific quantity of commodities or instrument of financial at agreed price and the delivery of asset at specified time. The Malaysian Market Derivatives is a Malaysian Derivatives Exchanges (MDEX). The derivative market is a security that the price depends on underlying assets. The financial derivatives which is a contract between two or more people for example buyers and sellers or borrowers or lenders and also can called as a ways of slicing and dicing financial contracts. The common underlying asset such as commodities, currencies, stocks, bonds, interest rates and market indexes. This purpose of study which is to determine the factors that can influence the price of futures crude palm oil in Malaysian Market Derivatives. The futures crude palm oil is under commodity futures that can be trade by the company or individual to get the higher profit. There are factors that can affect the FCPO price such as open interest, trading volume and settlement. In addition, this study also give valuable information to trader or investor that involve in commodity market. This research which is conducted by collecting the data from secondary data (Bursa Malaysia) in monthly basis for 18 years from 27th January 1997 to 27th December 2014. The result show the relationship between the independent variable with dependent variable.