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The following is a list of futures contracts on physically traded commodities. Agricultural ... Live Cattle: 40,000 lb (20 tons) USD ($) Chicago Mercantile Exchange: LE
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This protects the farmer from price drops and the buyer from price rises. Speculators and investors also buy and sell these contracts to try to make a profit; they provide liquidity to the system. Some of these exchanges also trade financial derivatives, such as interest rate and foreign exchange futures, as well as other instruments such as ...
Extended-hours trading (or electronic trading hours, ETH) is stock trading that happens either before or after the trading day regular trading hours (RTH) of a stock exchange, i.e., pre-market trading or after-hours trading. [1] After-hours trading is the name for buying and selling of securities when the major markets are closed. [2]
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.
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A stock future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index. Stock futures are one of the high risk trading instruments in the market. Stock market index futures are also used as indicators to determine market sentiment. [3]
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]