Futures

International Petroleum Exchange - History
... A group of energy and futures companies founded the IPE in 1980, and the first contract, for gas oil futures, was launched the following year ... In June 1988, the IPE successfully launched Brent Crude futures ... New trading instruments such as swaps, futures, and options have grown up ...

Australian Securities Exchange - Futures
... The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) was the 10th largest derivatives exchange in the world, providing derivatives in interest rates, equities, currencies and commodities ... The SFE is now part of ASX and its most active products are SPI 200 Futures – Futures contracts on an index representing the largest 200 stocks on the Australian Stock Exchange by market ... AU 90-day Bank Accepted Bill Futures – Australia's equivalent of T-Bill futures ...

Hedge (finance) - Hedging Equity and Equity Futures - Futures Hedging
... Investors who primarily trade in futures may hedge their futures against synthetic futures ... A synthetic in this case is a synthetic future comprising a call and a put position ... Long synthetic futures means long call and short put at the same expiry price ...

Delivery Month
... For futures contracts specifying physical delivery, the delivery month is the month in which the seller must deliver, and the buyer must accept and pay for, the underlying ... For most futures contracts, at any given time, one contract will typically be traded much more actively than others ... Financial contracts traded on US futures exchanges (such as bonds, short term interest rates, foreign exchange and US stock indexes) tend to expire quarterly, in March, June, September and ...

Futures - Other
... Futures Of American Studies, a summer institute in American Studies at Dartmouth College ... Futures and promises, computer programming objects that act as proxies for results that are not yet determined "Futures", a flash fiction feature in the journal Nature ...