A futures contract's expiration date is the last day that the contract can be traded Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader ...

Signing a futures contract, however, adds a player to the NFL’s Future List, meaning that they won’t be free to negotiate ...

Futures prices are often higher than the spot price as they add in all these factors. In this circumstance, the market is said to be in contango. Alternatively, when futures prices are lower than the ...

A futures contract provides terms for the delivery, or cash settlement, of a specified asset, such as stocks, raw materials, or products, at a specified date in the future.

For example, a crude oil futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is for 1,000 barrels of oil. At $75 per barrel, the notional value of the contract is $75,000.

The NYMEX August West Texas Intermediate contract was down by 53cts to $66.92/bbl and September WTI was off by 51cts to $65.50/bbl. Both the September and October Brent crude contracts were 47cts ...

The phrase "futures contract" sounds like it involves investors, day traders, gold bars and pork bellies. In the NFL, though, a futures contract isn't anything like Arian Foster's misguided ...

How does an inverse futures contract work? The nature of an inverse futures contract is non-linear. When a trader goes long on the BTC/USD inverse futures contract, they are shorting the USD.

India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) will open trading of monthly electricity futures from July 14, the bourse operator said ...

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 ...

Cattle Futures Post Another Round of New Contract Highs. Livestock markets rounded out last week’s trade with a higher close. Thanks to a strong fundamental backdrop, that has propelled futures ...

Futures prices are often higher than the spot price as it adds in all these factors. In this circumstance, the market is said to be in contango. Alternatively, when futures prices are lower than the ...