Futures are financial contracts obligating the buyer to purchase an asset or the seller to sell an asset at a predetermined ...

The CME and Cboe/CFE, two large, well respected, USA regulated futures exchanges, recently started trading Bitcoin futures. These venues make it possible to trade on Bitcoin’s value without being ...

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Perpetual futures are the backbone of modern decentralized derivatives trading. This article explains their full mechanics - how smart contracts manage leverage, how funding rates maintain price ...

You can’t predict the future, but you can try to predict — or hedge against — how much certain goods will cost when they arrive. A futures contract obligates a buyer to take delivery of a good, or ...

Derivatives trading: Although futures trading demands minimal margin, it entails significant risk. If a trade moves against you, there's a possibility of losing your entire capital. Moreover, such a ...

(Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale said on Thursday that fraud by a single trader betting on stock index futures had caused a 4.9 billion euro ($7.1 billion) loss -- potentially the biggest loss ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Futures markets have seen a record-breaking run in cocoa prices in 2024, a surge exacerbated by the hedge funds that provide much of their liquidity heading for the exit. Here are ...