Futures

This contract is worth 100 times the current market price of one ounce of gold. The contract is worth $60,000 ($600 x 100 ounces) if the market is trading at $600 per ounce. The margin required to control one contract is only $4,050, according to exchange margin rules. So, for $4,050, you can have control […]

A futures contract is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a financial product, also known as a derivative, that involves two parties agreeing to trade a securities or commodity at a preset price at a future date. It is a contract for a future transaction, which we simply refer to as a contract “Future prospects.”

You’ll need to open an account with a commodities futures broker to buy copper or any other sort of futures. In the same way that stockbrokers register with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, these brokers register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association. You can make trades by either phoning a

Each form of futures contract agricultural, energy, interest rate, equities, and so on has its own trading hours, which are sometimes dictated by the underlying products’ or securities’ market hours. Depending on the commodity, most futures contracts begin trading on Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern time and close on Friday afternoon between 4:30 and 5

What happens when a mutual fund declares a dividend on one of its schemes? The answer is self-evident: its NAV decreases in proportion to the payout. What happens, for example, if an equities fund has both a growth and a dividend option, and its NAVS is Rs.18, and a dividend of Rs.4/unit is declared? The

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is the source of all NASDAQ-derived future contracts (CME). They are traded on the CME Globex market nearly 24 hours a day, from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon, and they expire quarterly (March, June, September, and December). The tick for the E-mini NASDAQ futures contract (ticker: QCN) is.50 index point =

The fundamentals of trading the Nasdaq futures market may be broken down into two steps. Find a competent futures broker who can serve as a data feed to the CME market, and a decent platform to connect to that data supplier. Another option is to look for a two-in-one. Data and platform. Good futures trading

The earliest delivery date is specified in a futures contract. Natural gas contracts expire three business days before the delivery month’s first calendar day. How can I find out when my futures contract is up for renewal? The expiration date of a contract is the last day you can trade it. This usually happens on

Futures are a sort of derivative contract in which the buyer and seller agree to buy or sell a specified commodity asset or security at a predetermined price at a future date. Futures contracts, or simply “futures,” are traded on futures exchanges such as the CME Group and require a futures-approved brokerage account. A futures

Futures are financial derivatives that bind the parties to trade an item at a fixed price and date in the future. Regardless of the prevailing market price at the expiration date, the buyer or seller must purchase or sell the underlying asset at the predetermined price. What does futures trading imply? Futures are a sort