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The simple answer is that an Interest Rate Swap (IRS) is Over The Counter (OTC) while a Futures Contract is Exchange Traded.
One can own a stock, but trading futures requires one to contract for the futures. Buying stocks gives you ownership (or your own share) in a part of the company that you're buying into. Trading futures, one enters into a contract for a particular commodity instead of actually buying into it. You can then contract to be a buyer or a seller of that commodity.
The purpose of leverage in the forex market is to significantly increase the returns provided in an investment using instruments such as "Options" "Futures" and "Margin Accounts"
You wouldn't use a futures contract for that; it would be an OTC swap contract.
They are basically the same. A swap is like a sequential series of ED futures. There is a minor difference in that the ED futures have no convexity, while the swap does. In most cases, to the end user, this is relatively inconsequential.
Open interest indicates the number of open contracts in futures trading. An open futures contract consists of a long and a short trading a single contract. Some exchanges treat that as 1 open interest while some exchanges treat that as 2 since two parties are involved in the trade. In general, the more open interest a futures contract has, the more liquid it is.
Contact your broker.
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A futures contract is a contract setting the price and date for a commodity purchase.
You purchase a futures contract by first opening a futures trading account, which is a margin account, with a futures broker. Once that is done, simply choose the specific futures contract you wish to buy and then pay its "Initial Margin", which is a deposit needed to start a futures trade.
there are two types that are part of the commodity futures market. A normal futures market is one where the price of the nearby contract is less than the price of the distant futures contract. The other is an inverted futures market, the price of the near contract is greater then the price of the distant contract.
A wheat futures contract covers 5000 bushels of whatever wheat (there are different kinds) is specified in the contract.
there are two types that are part of the commodity futures market. A normal futures market is one where the price of the nearby contract is less than the price of the distant futures contract. The other is an inverted futures market, the price of the near contract is greater then the price of the distant contract.
The simple answer is that an Interest Rate Swap (IRS) is Over The Counter (OTC) while a Futures Contract is Exchange Traded.
Futures trading is all about understanding possible financial risks. To learn to trade futures, one must learn the aesthetics of leverage and initial margin.
In 1972 it launched a contract in foreign currency futures.
One can own a stock, but trading futures requires one to contract for the futures. Buying stocks gives you ownership (or your own share) in a part of the company that you're buying into. Trading futures, one enters into a contract for a particular commodity instead of actually buying into it. You can then contract to be a buyer or a seller of that commodity.