Meanings
futures1
- pluralplural of future
futures2
- abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of futures contract.
the raw risk disclosure that managed futures is not a conservative investment.
2010, Mark H. Melin, High-Performance Managed Futures5 more examples
Changes in spread between prices of cotton sheeting and twill and prices of cotton futures were relatively less than those indicated for print cloth.
1955, Leander D. Howell, Price risks for cotton and cotton products and means of reducing themThe percentage of times the American futures call option is priced below the European index call option decreases noticeably when the futures is at a premium to the index.
1986, Review of Research in Futures Markets, volumes 5-6, page 53A Eurodollar futures is a futures contract that at the expiration of the futures contract
1996, Ren-Raw Chen, Understanding and Managing Interest Rate Risks, page 75Our study is the first to investigate the price reaction of two broad commodity futures indices to several US macroeconomic announcements.
2010, He Huang, Macroeconomic News Effects in Commodity Futures and German Stock and Bond futures markets, →ISBNA bond futures is a commitment to deliver or take delivery of a notional bond on a future date or between a range of dates.
2010, Andrew M. Chisholm, Derivatives Demystified
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Shortening of futures contract.
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