Futures

Dow futures are financial futures that allow investors to hedge or speculate on the future value of various Dow Jones Industrial Average market index components. E-mini Dow Futures are futures instruments generated from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. What are the terms for Dow futures? A legally binding agreement between a buyer and a seller, […]

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

You’re not going to the store and buying a couple thousand 55-gallon barrels of crude oil to store in your backyard, are you? That’s just not feasible. Crude oil futures contracts were created to allow oil corporations and companies that consume a lot of oil to plan delivery of the commodity at a set price

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 is the futures market and how does it

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, the front-month May 2020 WTI crude contract fell 306%, or $55.90, for the day, to end at minus $37.63 a barrel on April 20, 2020. According to Dow Jones Market Data, the one-day drop was the greatest on record, and the settlement was the lowest ever, marking the first

Futures and options are financial contracts that are used to benefit from or hedge against price movements in commodities or other investments. Futures require the contract holder to acquire the underlying asset on a certain date in the future, whereas options, as the name implies, allow the contract holder the choice of whether or not

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

Stock index futures, such as the S&P 500 E-mini Futures (ES), reflect expectations for a stock index’s price at a later date, based on dividends and interest rates. Index futures are two-party agreements that are considered a zero-sum game because when one party wins, the other loses, and there is no net wealth transfer. While

If you assume you’ll need to employ a four-tick stop loss (the stop loss is four ticks distant from the entry price), the minimum you should risk on a trade in this market is $50, or four times $12.50. The minimum account balance, according to the 1% rule, should be at least $5,000 and preferably

The stock market in the United States is a popular use for futures. Short-selling a futures contract on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index is one way to hedge equity exposure. He gets money on the short if stocks fall, balancing off his exposure to the index. Alternatively, the same investor may be optimistic about