Hedging is the process of minimizing the risk to an investor's
portfolio by minimizing their exposure to stock volatility. Index
futures are the act of investing through an obligation to purchase
or sell a product by a certain date. Hedging with index futures is
the act of trying to minimize the investor's exposure to the
volatility of futures.
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This act, along with its later amendments in 1936 and 1975,
subjects commodities, commodity futures, and option trading to
federal supervision and restricts trading to futures exchanges
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Philip McBride Johnson has written:
'Special release on the Futures Trading Practices Act of
1992'
'Commodities Regulations/With Supplements (3 Volumes and 2
Supplements)'