Futures

When trading futures for a living, it’s critical to approach it like if it were any other new business venture. Maintain a regular schedule, eat, exercise, and dress appropriately, and seek advice and engagement from others in the trading community. You will feel more grounded and healthier if you do so. You’ll also require a […]

Sunday through Friday, gold futures trade from 6:00 p.m. U.S. ET to 5:00 p.m. U.S. ET, with a 60-minute break each day commencing at 5:00 p.m. U.S. ET. When does the Comex gold market close? From 8:20 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., open outcry trading takes place. From 6:00 PM Sundays to 5:15 PM Fridays, Eastern

Live cattle futures contracts are traded electronically on the Globex platform Monday 9:30 a.m. ET to 2:05 p.m. ET and represent 40,000 pounds of market ready cattle. To trade live cattle futures, you’ll need a futures account that has been approved. Is it possible to trade cattle futures? Before executing a futures transaction, it’s critical

1. The Volatility Index (VIX) of the Chicago Board Options Exchange is a market assessment of future volatility. The implied volatilities of a wide range of S&P 500 index options are used to create VIX. This volatility is calculated from both calls and puts and is designed to be forward-looking. What is the best way

Futures trading is not yet available through Fidelity. Stocks, fractional shares, OTC stocks, options, mutual funds, and bonds are among the investments offered by Fidelity. Trading in futures, FX, and cryptocurrency is not available. To trade futures, how much money do you need? If you assume you’ll need to employ a four-tick stop loss (the

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 p.m. Eastern. Is the futures market open for business? While the stock market in the United States begins at 9:30 a.m. EST and closes at 4:00 p.m. EST, index futures

In theory, oil futures contracts are straightforward. They keep the time-honored practice of certain market participants selling risk to others who willingly buy it in the expectation of profiting. To put it another way, buyers and sellers agree on a price for oil (or soybeans, or gold) that will be traded at some point in

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 p.m. Eastern. When do S&P futures begin trading? E-mini S&P 500 futures trade on the CME Globex trading platform from 6:00 p.m. U.S. ET through 5:00 p.m. U.S. ET the

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

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. How can you profit from futures contracts? Futures are