Security Futures
Financial markets today offer an ever-widening
array of financial products. Among the most recent are security futures
which include futures contracts on common stocks and on a
narrow-based index of securities.
Security futures trading can provide new
opportunities for managing the price risks
inherent in volatile equity markets as well as
profiting from expected price movements in
these markets. Learn about these strategies as well as
the risks of security futures trading.
Author: National Futures Association
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CME E-Mini Stock Index
Futures and Options
The CME® E-mini futures track the most
popular broad-based stock indices including the S&P 500®, the NASDAQ-100®
and the Russell 2000®.
Day traders and position traders buy or sell these
products to speculate on the price fluctuations of
the stock market in the hopes of earning high-yield returns.
With regard to the latter, the rapid price changes associated with stock indices
create continuous high-yield trading opportunities.
Author: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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Trading in Futures
Trading in futures can provide considerable financial
reward. Futures speculation, however, also
involves substantial risk. The key to avoiding the pitfalls
and reaping the rewards is to develop your trading skills
and knowledge of the markets. This booklet was created
to help you take the first step. It provides a
thorough introduction to futures trading for those who
have had only minimal exposure to the futures markets.
Author: Chicago Board of Trade
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Options on Futures
With options on futures, traders can construct strategies that
profit in advancing, declining or even stable markets,
while at the same time reducing risk and increasing
leverage. However, before you incorporate
options into your trading and risk management
decisions, you should thoroughly investigate the risks,
nomenclature and strategic uses of these instruments.
The more background you have in options,
the more likely you will be able to take full
advantage of these powerful financial instruments.
Author: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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Buying Options on Futures
Although futures contracts have been traded
on U.S. exchanges since 1865, options on
futures contracts were not introduced until
1982. Today, options on futures contracts offer a wide
and diverse range of potentially attractive investment
opportunities.
This booklet is designed to provide you with
a basic understanding of options on futures
contracts - what they are, how they work
and the opportunities and risks involved in
trading them.
Author: National Futures Association
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Understanding Opportunities and Risks of Futures Trading
For those individuals who fully understand
and can afford the risks that are involved, the
allocation of some portion of their investment
capital - the portion that is truly risk capital - to an investment in commodities can provide a means of
achieving greater portfolio diversification and
a potentially higher overall rate of return on
their investments. Learn more about the opportunities and risks of commodities in this brochure.
Author: National Futures Association
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