Discover how futures contracts can hedge against market risks, protect investments, and stabilize portfolios with effective ...

Futures are financial contracts obligating the buyer to purchase an asset or the seller to sell an asset at a predetermined ...

Managed futures strategies are seeing increased interest from advisors and investors on the VettaFi sites who are looking to pivot their portfolios in a market environment of continued volatility.

In one of my previous blog posts, we demonstrated that high yield bonds exhibited a strong negative correlation with VIX and an even stronger one with VIX futures, which comes mostly from down markets ...

This study investigates the out-of-sample hedging effectiveness and dynamic hedge ratios of floor-traded and E-mini futures with VAR, ECM, bivariate GARCH, Kaiman filter, and Markov regime switching ...

The slow death of hedge funds is taking down a once-popular derivatives contract with it. That’s one of the theories for why aggregate positions in S&P 500 futures have fallen steadily as a percentage ...

When Bitcoin hit its high in December 2017, its total market cap was approximately $420 billion. By contrast when the five stocks in the FAANG plus MSFT hit their highs back in September/October 2018, ...

We develop an optimum risk–return hurricane hedge model in a doubly stochastic jump-diffusion economy. The model's concave risk–return trade-off dictates that a higher correlation between hurricane ...

Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures announced a new product called Bitcoin (BTC) Hash Rate Futures that uses the biggest cryptocurrency’s ever-changing mining difficulty as a basis to open ...

Hedge funds have swung their bitcoin-futures bets to the bullish side for the first time, a marked turn around from a few weeks ago, according to figures released on Friday. The data from the ...