In finance, a forward contract, or simply a forward, is a non-standardized contract between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specified future...

a contract for difference (CFD) is a financial agreement between two parties, commonly referred to as the "buyer" and the "seller." The contract stipulates...

commodity or financial instrument. The predetermined price of the contract is known as the forward price or delivery price. The specified time in the future when...

enters into a forward contract with an investor. Multinational corporations, banks, and other financial institutions enter into forward contracts to take advantage...

The forward price (or sometimes forward rate) is the agreed upon price of an asset in a forward contract. Using the rational pricing assumption, for a...

A variable prepaid forward contract is an investment strategy that allows a shareholder with a concentrated stock holding to generate liquidity for diversification...

spot price (or spot rate). A spot contract is in contrast with a forward contract or futures contract where contract terms are agreed now but delivery...

futures contract, and a DFL contract when the futures contract becomes the front month future. This is equivalent to a Brent forward contract and a CFD...

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The forward market is the informal over-the-counter financial market by which contracts for future delivery are entered into. It is mainly used for trading...

Forward security could refer to: Forward contract, a financial instrument Forward secrecy a property of cryptographic protocols This disambiguation page...

funds, insurance, forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts. Public futures...

An executory contract is a contract that has not yet been fully performed or fully executed. It is a contract in which both sides still have important...

social thought, such as Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau put forward their opinions on social contract, which then caused the topic to become much more mainstream...

products (such as swaps, futures, or forwards) obligate the contractual parties to the terms over the life of the contract. Option products (such as interest...

Exchange often involved the use of very sophisticated contracts, including short sales, forward contracts, and options. "Trading took place at the Amsterdam...

non-deliverable forward (NDF) is an outright forward or futures contract in which counterparties settle the difference between the contracted NDF price or...

requires minimal assumptions, of a forward contract. In the absence of traded forward contracts, the forward contract can be replaced (indeed, itself replicated)...

The forward curve is a function graph in finance that defines the prices at which a contract for future delivery or payment can be concluded today. For...

equal to the forward rate of exchange back in year 1. Any change in the forward rate, however, changes the value of the forward contract. In this example...

the currency futures contracts are similar to forward contracts in terms of their obligation, but differ from forward contracts in the way they are traded...

During the rest of the year, florists, or tulip traders, signed forward contracts before a notary to buy tulips at the end of the season. Thus the Dutch...

was originally in forward contracts; the first contract (on corn) was written on March 13, 1851. In 1865 standardized futures contracts were introduced...

principal amount. The general swap can also be seen as a series of forward contracts through which two parties exchange financial instruments, resulting...

your obligation for the forward contract by shorting another forward with the same delivery date to get the difference in forward prices, but discounted...

to holding the corresponding call option and selling an appropriate forward contract. This equivalence is called "put-call parity". Put options are most...

A forward freight agreement (FFA) is a financial forward contract that allows ship owners, charterers and speculators to hedge against the volatility...

transaction which is not settled immediately, such as a futures contract or a forward contract. The spot settlement date may be different for different types...

situation in which the futures price (or forward price) of a commodity is higher than the expected spot price of the contract at maturity. In a contango situation...

whereas covered interest rate parity refers to the condition in which a forward contract has been used to cover (eliminate exposure to) exchange rate risk....