A buyer makes a contract to purchase a commodity at a future date at a fixed price. If the supply and demand caused the price to be lower the buyer has lost out. However, if the price is higher the buyer gains.
Claude R. Schmidt has written: 'Hedge Accounting mit Optionen und Futures' -- subject(s): Hedging (Finance), Accounting, Options (Finance), Financial futures
Wayne D. Purcell has written: 'Agricultural Futures and Options' -- subject(s): Agriculture, Commodity futures, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Agriculture, Finance, Options (Finance), Produce trade
Joseph D. Koziol has written: 'A handbook for professional futures and options traders' -- subject(s): Commodity exchanges, Financial futures, Futures, Option (Contract), Options (Finance)
Single-stock futures In finance, a single-stock futures is a type of futures contracts between two parties to exchange a specified number of stocks in 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 are traded on a futures exchange
Torben Juul Andersen has written: 'Currency and interest rate hedging' -- subject(s): Financial futures, Foreign exchange futures, Forward exchange, Hedging (Finance), Interest rate futures, Option (Contract), Options (Finance) 'Interest raterisk management' -- subject(s): Forecasting, Interest rates, Investments
Steffen W. Tolle has written: 'Dynamische Hedging-Strategien mit SMI-Futures' -- subject(s): Hedging (Finance), Financial futures
The price of oil futures is similar to any other stock or commodity, in that it's shown on most financial websites. One can find the price of oil futures online at Forex, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, CNNMoney.
You can find a lot of information on stock index futures from newspapers, financial magazines, on TV news, and online. You can easily go online and go to Google finance or CNBC and look at the stock index futures.
Keith Redhead has written: 'Introduction to financial investment' -- subject(s): Investments, Derivative securities 'Introducing investments' -- subject(s): Finance, Personal, Investments, Personal Finance, Portfolio management 'Introduction to Financial Futures and Options' 'Risk Management with Futures and Options'
George Angell has written: 'Winning in the futures market' -- subject(s): Futures market, Financial futures, Commodity exchanges 'Small stocks for big profits' -- subject(s): Stocks, Small capitalization stocks, Finance.,, Small business 'Winning in the futures market : a money-making guide to trading hedging and speculating' -- subject(s): Futures market, Financial futures, Speculation, Commodity exchanges 'Winning in the commodities market' -- subject(s): Commodity futures 'Real-time proven commodity spreads' -- subject(s): Commodity exchanges, Charts, diagrams 'Agricultural options' -- subject(s): Options (Finance), Cattle trade, Grain trade
David F DeRosa has written: 'Options on foreign exchange' -- subject- s -: Options - Finance -, Hedging - Finance -, Foreign exchange futures
One can find out more about futures day trading from any brokerage office or brokerage section of a bank. Information about this is also available online on the Finance section of the Yahoo website.