In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery...
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A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. Futures...
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estimated at around 13.833 trillion. The Eurodollar futures contract refers to the financial futures contract based upon these deposits, traded at the Chicago...
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contango implies that futures prices for a certain maturity are falling over time. Forward contracts are very similar to futures contracts, except they are...
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Hedge (finance) (section Stock/futures hedging)
forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts. Public futures markets were...
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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...
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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...
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Derivative (finance) (redirect from Derivative contract)
products (such as swaps, futures, or forwards) obligate the contractual parties to the terms over the life of the contract. Option products (such as...
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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...
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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...
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Brent Crude (section Brent crude oil futures contracts)
price of the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) Brent Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself. The original Brent Crude referred to a trading classification...
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commodity's forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. The resulting futures or forward curve would typically...
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Commodity market (redirect from Agricultural futures contracts)
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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Interest rate future (redirect from Money market futures)
An interest rate future is a futures contract (a financial derivative) with an interest-bearing instrument as the underlying asset. It is a particular...
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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...
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E-mini (section E-mini contracts)
E-minis are futures contracts that represent a fraction of the value of standard futures. They are traded primarily on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...
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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...
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Margin (finance) (redirect from Margin (Futures))
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...
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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...
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Short (finance) (redirect from Short (futures))
A short position can also be created through a futures contract, forward contract, or option contract, by which the short seller assumes an obligation...
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Basis trading (redirect from Basis of futures)
example the purchase of a particular bond and the sale of a related futures contract). Basis trading is done when the investor feels that the two instruments...
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Look up futures in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Futures may mean: Futures contract, a tradable financial derivatives contract Futures exchange, a...
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This is a list of notable futures exchanges. Those stock exchanges that also offer trading in futures contracts besides trading in securities are listed...
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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...
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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...
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employed when splicing together individual monthly futures contracts to form a continuous futures contract spanning a long period of time. However the standard...
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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...
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