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...

permitted by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), which treats CFDs, where the underlying is a security, as futures contracts, that must be exchange-traded...

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

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...

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

(RBOB) is a gasoline futures contract traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). It is the benchmark futures contract for wholesale gasoline...

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...

while hard commodities are usually mined, such as gold and oil. Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities.[citation needed] Commodity...

future, also known as an FX future or a foreign exchange future, is a futures contract to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future...

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...

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

A short position can also be created through a futures contract, forward contract, or option contract, by which the short seller assumes an obligation...

positions in a spot (cash) asset and a related derivative—most commonly a futures contract – aimed to profit from price convergence over time. The price difference...

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...

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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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...

existence of many other E-mini contracts) and designated by the commodity ticker symbol ES, is a stock market index futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile...

between the profit or loss of a futures contract and the change in the spot price of the underlying asset of that futures contract. Unlike fixed income or dividend...

hedgers (commodity producers and commodity holders) are happy to sell futures contracts and accept the higher-than-expected returns. A contango market is...

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...