NOUN
- an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date
How To Use futures contract In A Sentence
- Forward transactions are economically similar to exchange-traded futures contracts.
- Despite the drop to record low levels, Libor rates are expected to move higher, according to current valuations in eurodollar futures contracts. Key London Rate Falls to Record Low in Dollars, Pound
- The futures contracts outstanding must be settled by delivery of the underlying asset or by cash on the last trading day.
- In other words, you need two long call options to hedge one short futures contract.
- The auction market in foreign exchange involves trading in futures contracts.
- The delivery date for the futures contract is 30 June.
- This is much like a futures contract, an exchange traded forward agreement, that starts off hot with growing open interest, but then interest wanes with the contract's eventual delisting.
- The auction market in foreign exchange involves trading in futures contracts.
- LONDON — Two of the world's most opaquely traded metals are to be launched as futures contracts on the London Metal Exchange next week, a strategic broadening of products at Europe's last open-outcry trading forum. LME to Offer New Metal Trades
- Ratio of the value of futures contracts purchased or sold to the value of the cash commodity being hedged, a computation necessary to minimize basis risk.
