View post: Country reintroduces travel restrictions for Americans and Brits You have almost certainly heard some fictional character wheel and deal over “futures.” You’ve probably heard the phrase ...

Exchange-traded derivatives originally only did commodity underlyings. The world’s first financial underlying was : currencies. On 16 May 1972, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started trading in ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He ...

Index futures are derivative products used to trade stock indices at a specific date and price in the future. Traditionally, index futures were only for institutional traders buying and selling ...

In times gone by, buyers and sellers of goods would be concerned about future supply and demand - hence pricing - of their bread and butter products. For example, the hog farmer and the sausage ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Managed futures have robust evidence supporting their inclusion in long-term investment portfolios. Adding managed futures to a portfolio can lead to lower standard deviation, higher returns, and ...

There’s an increasing number of exchanges offering futures contracts trading. So far there’s Binance, FTX, Bitfinex, Bybit, and Kraken, to name just a few. Volumes are also picking up across the board ...

Trading in the futures market requires expertise and a significant tolerance for risk. A loss mirrors every gain and although profitability is achievable, consistent success depends on using effective ...

Discover how to trade index futures, including how index futures offer exposure to a basket of stocks with a single position. Learn how to trade them via US-listed futures or via spread bets and CFDs.