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Security Futures: An Introduction to Their Uses and Risks

Financial markets today offer an everwidening array of financial products. Among the most recent are security futures, which include futures contracts on common stocks and futures contracts on a narrow-based index of securities.

Security…

CBOT® Precious Metals : Futures and Options Strategies

Introduction

Your Flexible Choice
The Chicago Board of Trade’s precious metals futures and options provide a key benefit to precious metals traders – FLEXIBILITY.

This document highlights an array of…

Options on CBOT® Fed Funds Futures Reference Guide

Introduction
Options on CBOT Fed Funds futures are an important risk management tool for anyone who wants to hedge against, or speculate on, changes in short-term interest rates brought about by changes in Federal Reserve…

A basic guide to trading options on futures contracts
 
Options Strategies in a Bear Market

Class: Options Strategies in a Bear Market
Options Strategies in a Bear Market (Options 304) is designed to expose the different ways that options can limit risk or increase profit in a Bear Market. This course discusses…

Options Complex
 
EXAMINING FUTURES AND OPTIONS

THE POWER OF CHOICE

How do commercial buyers and sellers of volatile commodities protect themselves from the ever-changing and unpredictable nature of today’s business climate? They use a practice called hedging. This time…

CME Group Livestock Futures and Options: Introduction to Underlying Market Fundamentals

Introduction

Before entering into the futures and options markets, the market participant should gain an understanding of the underlying cash markets. CME Group Livestock Futures and Options: Introduction to Livestock and…

Introduction to Hedging with Futures and Options

Taking Control of Your Future

Farming the land is a lifestyle as much as a job, a tradition passed on from generation to generation. There are things about farming you can control, like what crops you grow, whether or not…

Introduction to Crack Spreads

What is a Crack Spread?

In the petroleum industry, refinery executives are most concerned about hedging the difference between their input costs and output prices. Refiners’ profits are tied directly to the spread, or…

RUSSELL INDEXES

IntercontinentalExchange® (ICE®) is the marketplace for futures and futures options on the Russell 2000® small-capitalization and Russell 1000® large-capitalization indices. In 2008, these widely accepted measures for institutional investors -…

ICE WESTERN BARLEY

IntercontinentalExchange® (ICE®) began offering risk management and trading for the grain markets through its acquisition of the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) in September 2007. Today, WCE is known as ICE Futures Canada. Established in 1887,…

How Speculators Use Options
 
Self-Study Guide to Hedging with Livestock Futures and Options

The Self-Study Guide to Hedging with Livestock Futures and Options is an introduction to the mechanics of using futures and options to forward price livestock. The booklet presents 17 short units of study to help livestock producers and…

Strategies for CME Livestock Futures and Options

Introduction

This publication is intended for people in the livestock industry who are comfortable with their basic knowledge of how to use CME Livestock futures and options and who want to know more. It guides readers …

Self-Study Guide to Hedging with Grain and Oilseed Futures and Options

Introduction

Futures and options on agricultural commodities have been  seeing phenomenal growth in trading volume in recent years, 

A GUIDE TO ENERGY HEDGING

INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE

Significant, sometimes abrupt, changes in supply, demand, and pricing have touched many of the world’s commodity markets during the past 25 years, especially those for …

Gold Futures vs. Gold ETFs: Understanding the Differences and Opportunities

Significant differences in the liquidity, leverage and costs of futures and ETFs that need to be understood before any investment decision is made.

 

Gold has historically served as both a legitimate hedge against…

Comparing Futures and Forwards for Managing Currency Exposures

Original version reprinted (1996) with permission from Derivatives: Tax Regulation and Finance, published by Warren, Gorham &Lamont, the RIIA Group. Updated currency contract listings are the only changes.

For internationally oriented…

Futures Perfect

Futures are exchange-traded contracts that require delivery of a commodity, bond, currency, or stock index, at a specified price, on a specified future date

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