Spot Market (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The spot market or cash market is a public financial market, in which financial instruments are traded and delivered immediately. The spot market can be of both types: an organized market, an exchange or "over the counter," OTC. Spot markets can operate wherever the infrastructure exists to conduct the transaction. The spot market for most instruments exists primarily on the Internet. The spot foreign exchange market has a 2 day delivery date, originally due to the time it would take to move cash from one bank to another.