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Upside momentum is strong, but according to the Nearby Gold futures chart, potential resistance levels are lined up from $1417.30 to $1457.90. This are all previous main tops on the daily chart.
S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
In the U.S., gold futures are primarily traded on the New York Commodities Exchange and Euronext.liffe. In India, gold futures are traded on the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX). [47] As of 2009 holders of COMEX gold futures have experienced problems taking delivery of their metal.
The price of spot gold reached $2,364 per ounce Tuesday after hitting record highs for seven straight sessions and trading at $2,336 per ounce Monday. Year on year, gold is up 16.5%.
In a state of backwardation, futures contract prices include compensation for the risk transferred from the underlying asset holder to the purchaser of the futures contract. This means the expected spot price on expiry is higher than the price of the futures contract. Backwardation very seldom arises in money commodities like gold or silver.
The first gold exchange-traded fund was Gold Bullion Securities launched on the ASX in 2003, and the first silver exchange-traded fund was iShares Silver Trust launched on the NYSE in 2006. As of November 2010 a commodity ETF, namely SPDR Gold Shares , was the second-largest ETF by market capitalization.
The HUI-gold ratio is an expression which compares the relative quantities of the NYSE Gold BUGS Index and the price of gold. The ratio is calculated by dividing the value of the NYSE Gold BUGS Index by the price of gold. [5] Investors use the HUI-gold ratio to illustrate the ever-shifting relative strength of the gold stocks versus gold. [6]
A trader has observed that the price of six-month gold futures price (F) is $1,300 per troy ounce, whereas the spot price (S) is $1,371 per troy ounce. The (not compounded) borrowing rate for a six-month loan ( r {\displaystyle r} ) is 3.5% per annum, and storage cost for gold is negligible (0%).