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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

In finance, box office futures is a type of futures contract in which investors speculate on upcoming movies based on their predicted performance. In...

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

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

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

only exception is futures contracts which the Chiefs began being signed after the conclusion of the 2023 regular season. Futures contracts are signed beginning...

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...

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...