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Archive: Futures Contracts
Futures are contracts to buy or sell a commodity at a fixed price sometime in the future — in this case, we’re discussing silver futures. All Futures contracts are standardized to facilitate trading. These contracts include details such as quality, quantity, future transaction date, sale price, and delivery location. Futures contracts have two positions that [...]
Futures are highly specific and detailed contracts to buy or sell; they include quantity, quality, sale date, and sale price. Futures contracts are exchanged in a limited number of places. This includes gold futures, as well. There are two positions in a futures contact: long and short. The long position is the purchaser of the [...]
Copper futures are futures contracts. They are a standardized agreement between parties to buy or sell an asset at a particular future date at a price agreed upon today for a fixed quantity and quality. These contracts are traded on futures exchanges. The purchaser of the asset assumes the long position. The party contracted to [...]
The futures market is used to speculate about the direction of the price of a particular asset or commodity. Take gold, for instance. Currently gold is in the midst of a speculative bubble, with the price of an ounce of gold set at over $1,000. Trading this kind of market means having an iron stomach [...]
When you buy futures, you are buying the right to purchase a certain quantity of a commodity at a set price. You pay a premium for that purchasing right. Natural gas futures are sold in quantities of 10,000 mmbtus . This means that if you actually act on your future you will purchase 10,000 mmbtus [...]
