The margin minimum for futures contracts determines how much you'll need in your account to begin trading specific contracts. For example, the minimum margin to trade the E-mini S&P 500 Index ...

To explain how the tax treatment for a Section 1256 contract works, let’s take a look at a more-detailed example. Suppose an investor buys a regulated futures contract for $10,000. By December 3 ...

Intercommodity spreads: Buying and selling futures contracts of different grades or locations of the same commodity. For example, an investor could buy West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures ...

For example, a manufacturer might buy silver futures as a hedge against price increases, or a mining company might sell futures contracts as a safeguard in case silver prices drop. It's possible ...

E-mini futures are like the espresso shots of the futures trading world: smaller, faster and just enough to keep things interesting without blowing up your portfolio (unless you let them).

A futures contract, an agreement to buy or sell an underlying security at a set price on a specified day, mandates that the transaction take place after the contract expires. For example ...

For example, say a fund has a $1 million long exposure to U.S. equity markets, and the fund manager wants to offset that risk using the E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts. They would have to sell an ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken introduced foreign exchange (forex) perpetual futures contracts to its Kraken Pro platform on April 18, giving traders further exposure to global currency markets.

CME Group will launch futures contracts tied to the XRP cryptocurrency next month, the derivatives exchange said on Thursday, ...

LLC—a CFTC-regulated Designated Contract Market (DCM)—today announced the self-certification of the first perpetual futures contracts ever listed on a U.S. exchange. Trading begins Monday ...

Trading of this type of wheat has been dominated for more than a century by MIAX Futures Exchange, formerly known as the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. For the new spring wheat contract, which ...