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

Futures and options both give traders leveraged exposure to underlying assets. You can use these contracts to get exposure to stocks, commodities, and other assets. Since these derivatives are similar ...

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Options on futures are a kind of contract that gives an investor the right to buy or sell futures at a specific price in a specific period. Options on futures, therefore, layer the "optionality" of ...

Washington, DC — FIA today released statistics on the number of futures and options traded on exchanges worldwide in 2023. The total volume of trading reached 137.3 billion contracts in 2023, up 64% ...

Investors who want to walk on the wild side have a couple of easily accessed alternatives: stock options and futures. But which is best? It depends, of course, on your goal, financial savvy, time ...

Interest rates have been in focus lately, especially the effect of the actions of the US Federal Reserve Board on equity prices. I figured it would be a good time to explain how the Fed Funds futures ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, releases its new IvyDB Futures database with ...

Analysis of Coforge futures and HDFC Bank options suggests exiting long positions and avoiding call options amid market ...

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For many individual investors, options and futures are exotic instruments. This is far from the case, once you learn the difference between the two. The truth is that with widespread availability of ...