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  2. Futures contract - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the daily futures-settlement failure risk is borne by an exchange, rather than an individual party, further limiting credit risk in futures. Example: Consider a futures contract with a $100 price: Let's say that on day 50, a futures contract with a $100 delivery price (on the same underlying asset as the future) costs $88. On day ...

  3. Long/short equity - Wikipedia

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    Typically, equity long/short investing is based on "bottom up" analysis based primarily on the analysis of the financial statements of the individual companies, in which investments are made. There may also be "top down" analysis of the risks and opportunities offered by industries, sectors, countries, and the macroeconomic situation.

  4. Hedge (finance) - Wikipedia

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    A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insurance, forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, [1] many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts.

  5. List of traded commodities - Wikipedia

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    100 short tons SM/ZM (Electronic) Soy Meal: DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons m Soybean Oil: CBOT: XCBT: 60,000 lb BO/ZL (Electronic) Soybean Oil: DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons y Wheat CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu W/ZW (Electronic) Wheat EURONEXT 50 tons EBM UK Feed Wheat ICE: IEPA: 100 metric tons T Milk CME: XCME: 200,000 lbs DC Cocoa ICE: IEPA: 10 metric tons CC ...

  6. NASDAQ futures - Wikipedia

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    Futures contracts are commonly used for hedge or speculative financial goals. Futures contracts are used to hedge, or offset investment risk by commodity owners (i.e., farmers), or portfolios with undesirable risk exposure offset by the futures position. [7] Futures are also widely used to speculate trading profits.

  7. Single-stock futures - Wikipedia

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    In finance, a single-stock future (SSF) is a type of futures contract between two parties to exchange a specified number of stocks in a company for a price agreed today (the futures price or the strike price) with delivery occurring at a specified future date, the delivery date. The contracts can be later traded on a futures exchange.

  8. Managed futures account - Wikipedia

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    Managed futures accounts are operated on behalf of an individual by professional money managers such as CTAs or CPOs, trading in futures or other derivative securities. [3] The funds can take both long and short positions in futures contracts and options on futures contracts in the global commodity, interest rate, equity, and currency markets. [4]

  9. Dow futures - Wikipedia

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    Dow Futures trade with a multiplier that inflates the value of the contract to add leverage to the trade. The multiplier for the Dow Jones is 5, essentially meaning that Dow Futures are working on 5-1 leverage. If the Dow Futures are trading at 10,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $50,000.