Futures contracts are legally binding agreements to buy or sell an asset at a specific price on a specific future date. Futures contract buyers assume the risk of price changes in the underlying ...

Futures contracts, or futures, are agreements to buy or sell an asset for a predetermined price at a later date. Learn more about what they are and how to invest in them.

Obligation to buy: Futures require you to purchase the deliverable if you hold the contract at expiration, while option owners have the right, but not the obligation, to exercise the contract.

・Last Friday’s CFTC Commitments of Traders report (legacy, futures only) showed funds held a net-short futures position of 3,512 contracts as of Tuesday, April 1. This was a decrease of 10,898 ...

Learn why UNG ETF suits short-term trading with exposure to natural gas futures, despite roll costs, high volatility, and NAV ...

E-Mini S&P 500 futures contracts expire and settle mid-quarter. The E-Mini closed at $6,001.75 on Dec. 20, 2024. The next three upcoming closing dates for futures will be March 21, 2025, June 20 ...

Futures contracts are bought and sold on a wide range of commodities, currencies, interest rates and indexes, and they are a huge part of the financial industry.

Nifty 50 (25,461) and Nifty Bank (57,032) lost 0.7 per cent each last week. Here is an analysis of the futures and options ...

Oliver Sloup, Blue Line Futures, says it was a combination of short covering and technical buying heading into a long holiday ...

Founded in 2012, Coinbase went public on Nasdaq in April 2021. It became the first crypto exchange to join the S&P 500 club ...

A futures contract can be bought and sold constantly until the expiration date. A trader, for example, might buy a futures contract on crude oil at 10:00 a.m. for $70 and sell it at 3:00 p.m. for $72.

If the S&P 500 historically generates total returns of about 10% annually, wouldn't some investment vehicle that amplifies ...