Take a look at some basic examples of hedging in the futures market, as well as the return prospects and risks.

Futures markets have a safer and more efficient margining system and clearing mechanism compared to securities markets. This could attract investors and high-frequency traders to the futures exchanges ...

The Chicago-based Intelligent Medicine Exchange (IMX) has been designated a contract market by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), making it the first health care futures and options ...

CHICAGO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - In a head-to-head contest in a small corner of agricultural futures markets, a legacy spring wheat contract that has traded for more than 140 years is fending off a ...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), a regulated derivatives exchange that lists Bitcoin (BTC) futures, now stands just behind Binance in terms of notional open interest to rank second in the list ...

Competition between the dominant futures exchange and the major securities exchanges is driven by two new factors -- the death of LIBOR and the competitive insignificance of trade matching. The death ...