In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery...

A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. Futures...

contango implies that futures prices for a certain maturity are falling over time. Forward contracts are very similar to futures contracts, except they are...

by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The SFC treats CFDs, where the underlying is a security, as futures contracts, meaning they have to be...

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

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

The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts". In 1955...

price of the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) Brent Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself. The original Brent Crude referred to a trading classification...

In finance, a perpetual futures contract, also known as a perpetual swap, is an agreement to non-optionally buy or sell an asset at an unspecified point...

NASDAQ futures are financial futures which launched on June 21, 1999. It is the financial contract futures that allow an investor to hedge with or speculate...

fruit and sugar. Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil. Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities.[citation needed] Commodity...

E-minis are futures contracts that represent a fraction of the value of standard futures. They are traded primarily on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...

spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI usually refers to the WTI Crude Oil futures contract traded on the...

a type of futures contract between two parties to exchange a specified number of stocks in a company for a price agreed today (the futures price or the...

An interest rate future is a futures contract (a financial derivative) with an interest-bearing instrument as the underlying asset. It is a particular...

of various components of the S&P 500 Index market index. S&P 500 futures contracts were first introduced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1982....

commodity's forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. The resulting futures or forward curve would typically...

This is a list of notable futures exchanges. Those stock exchanges that also offer trading in futures contracts besides trading in securities are listed...

An E-micro is a futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Globex electronic trading platform, that represents an even smaller fraction...

The SPI 200 Futures contract is the benchmark equity index futures contract in Australia, based on the S&P/ASX 200 Index. It provides all the traditional...

For futures contracts specifying physical delivery, the delivery month is the month in which the seller must deliver, and the buyer must accept and pay...

index. The futures instruments are derived from the Dow Jones Industrial Average as E-mini Dow Futures. All of the Dow derived future contracts are a product...

equal to the value of the futures contract itself, then they would not profit from the inherent leverage implicit in futures trading. A conservative trader...

13.833 trillion. The Eurodollar futures contract was launched in 1981. It was the first cash-settled futures contract. It traded on the Chicago Mercantile...

Exchange to launch the options contract derived from the FTSE's real-time data, while competitors LIFFE launched the futures contract. By 1986, Margaret Thatcher's...

Look up futures in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Futures may mean: Futures contract, a tradable financial derivatives contract Futures exchange, a...

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...

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...

1 June 2007, the DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract (OQD) is the Asian crude oil pricing benchmark. The contract is traded on the CME Group’s electronic...

trading. On September 9, 1997, CME Group introduced the S&P E-mini futures contract. In 2005, the index transitioned to a public float-adjusted capitalization-weighting...