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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...