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Bonds rallied alongside stocks, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury down below 4% on Thursday, for the first time since August. Meanwhile, oil prices moved up about 1.7% to come further off ...
If you ever watch the financial news before the stock market opens for the day's trading, you may hear about movements in the "stock futures." One of the main reasons that futures prices are ...
The index, as well as the Dow and Nasdaq, had pulled back from record levels by the end of Tuesday's regular trading day, and the S&P 500 remains less than 0.5% from its all-time high. Dow futures ...
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.
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.
Futures trading is skyrocketing – CME's E-mini contracts averaged 3.5 million contracts a day in 2008, a 37 percent yearly increase in volume, while equity volume increased only 2 percent for the same period of time. [8] However studies reveal that hedging strategies still dominate speculation trade activity in every futures market studied. [9]
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up about 0.2% early Monday after closing Friday at a fresh all-time high. S&P 500 futures also rose 0.2%, while contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 ...
where F is the current (time t) cost of establishing a futures contract, S is the current price (spot price) of the underlying stock, r is the annualized risk-free interest rate, t is the present time, T is the time when the contract expires and PV(Div) is the Present value of any dividends generated by the underlying stock between t and T.