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...

estimated at around 13.833 trillion. The Eurodollar futures contract refers to the financial futures contract based upon these deposits, traded at the Chicago...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts may be listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges...

employed when splicing together individual monthly futures contracts to form a continuous futures contract spanning a long period of time. However the standard...

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...

security. Each futures contract has a different size, quantity, valuation etc., so each tick size that can be applied to anyone's futures contract, is dependent...

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...