Learn about futures trading, along with how contracts work, key market factors, risks, and potential benefits, and how investors use futures to hedge or speculate.

Despite its relatively short history, the energy futures contract has become an essential part of the modern financial system, thanks to its efficiency in controlling volatility in the price of ...

A futures contract legally obligates an investor to buy or sell a specific security or commodity at a predetermined price and time, and it’s facilitated on the futures exchange. When the future ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He ...

Holding period. If property is delivered in satisfaction of a securities futures contract to acquire property, the holding period for the property will include the period the taxpayer held the ...

For retirees (or soon-to-be retirees), futures contracts can offer an additional avenue for diversification and hedging opportunities, helping to manage market volatility. However, there are a few ...

Friday marked the final day of trading for Eurodollars futures, one of the primary instruments that traders have used to telegraph their expectations for Federal Reserve policy or to hedge the ...

Brazil’s weather caused some excitement in the soybean market this week. One day forecasts showed no rain, and the next it did. Until late January, farmers should expect South America’s weather ...

There are a lot of unknowns in investing. For example, you don’t know what the price of a stock will be tomorrow. If you did, investing would be a risk-free endeavor! Instead, it’s all investors can ...