Futures

Daily maintenance from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. CT) Monday through Thursday. Micro Emini futures are what they sound like. What exactly are they? Micro E-mini Futures are miniature copies of the CME Group’s popular E-mini stock index futures contracts, measuring barely a tenth of the size. Because traditional […]

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

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. Do stock futures forecast the following day? Stock index futures, such as the S&P 500 E-mini Futures

In the manufacturing and sale of sugar, there are hardly no pure-play worldwide public businesses. Imperial Sugar was a publicly traded corporation until it was bought out and went private in 2012. Traders might buy shares of Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd, India’s largest sugar producer, on the Bombay Stock Exchange or derivatives through a broker in

The S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index replicates a position that rolls the nearest month VIX futures to the next month on a daily basis in equal fractional amounts by using the prices of the next two near-term VIX futures contracts. This results in a rolling one-month long position in VIX futures contracts for the

For international transactions, multinational corporations (MNCs) typically use the spot and forward markets. For various company activities, they also use currency futures, currency options, and currency futures options. MNCs use these three markets to cover open positions in foreign currencies, while speculators trade them for profit. This chapter is broken into three sections that are

S&P 500 futures are a sort of derivative contract that allows a buyer to purchase an investment based on the expected future value of the S&P 500 Index. All types of investors and the financial media pay special attention to S&P 500 futures as a leading indication of market activity. S&P 500 futures allow investors

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 are futures contracts profitable? Futures are traded on

From 6:00 p.m. U.S. ET to 5:00 p.m. U.S. ET the next day, E-mini S&P 500 futures are traded on the CME Globex trading platform. The E-mini S&P 500 futures contract is traded on a quarterly basis. March, June, September, and December are all good months to trade. Is the futures market now active? Depending

Russell 1000 Growth ETFs have $73.09 billion in assets under management, with four ETFs trading on US exchanges. Is the IWF ETF a good buy? With a long track record, IWF is one of the most popular US large-cap growth ETFs. IWF invests in firms from the popular Russell 1000 Index that have higher I/B/E/S