Futures

Market indices, energy, metals, interest rates, currencies, and Bitcoin futures are among the more than 60 futures contracts available to trade on E*TRADE. Micro E-mini contracts are a tenth of the size of E-mini contracts, allowing you to trade with less money up front. What are the steps to becoming eligible to trade futures on […]

What Are Natural Gas Futures and How Do They Work? A natural gas future, like all commodities, is a contract that binds the buyer to buy a certain amount of natural gas at a specified price and date in the future. The 15th of the following month is chosen as the delivery date. How do

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

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

A derivative is a financial contract whose value, risk, and basic term structure are based on the value, risk, and basic term structure of an underlying asset. Options are a type of derivative that gives the holder the ability to buy or sell the underlying asset but not the obligation to do so. Many investing

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is the source of all S&P 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 minimum tick for the S&P 500 Futures (ticker: SP) contract is 0.25

Futures are financial derivative contracts in which the buyer agrees to acquire an asset and the seller agrees to sell an asset at a defined future date and price. An investor can speculate on the direction of an asset, commodity, or financial instrument via a futures contract. Futures are used to protect against losses caused

Standardized contracts that trade on centralized markets are currency futures. Futures might be settled in cash or physically delivered. Futures that are cash-settled are settled daily on a mark-to-market basis. The differences are settled in cash till the expiration date as the daily price changes. At the expiration date for futures settled by physical delivery,

Sunday through Friday, electronic trading of crude oil futures is performed on the CME Globex trading platform from 6:00 p.m. U.S. to 5:00 p.m. U.S. ET. When do futures trade in the morning? 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 trade

The New York Mercantile Exchange’s copper futures (HG) are exchange-traded contracts (NYMEX). Copper, after iron and aluminum, is the world’s third most extensively used metal, and is mostly utilized in construction and industrial machinery manufacturing. While the cyclical nature of these key businesses provides plenty of trading opportunities, copper futures are also susceptible to political