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Understanding Opportunities and Risks in Futures Trading

*This information is provided by  the National Futures Association.

Investing in futures markets have been described as continuous auction markets and as clearing houses for the latest information about supply and demand. They are the meeting places of buyers and sellers of an ever-expanding list of commodities that today includes agricultural products, metals, petroleum, financial instruments, foreign currencies and stock indexes. Trading has also been initiated in options on futures contracts, enabling option buyers to participate in futures markets with known risks.

  1. Introduction

  2. Futures Markets: What, Why & Who

  3. The Market Participants

  4. What is a Futures Contract?

  5. The Process of Price Discovery

  6. After the Closing Bell

  7. The Arithmetic of Futures

  8. Futures Initial Margin

  9. Basic Trading Strategies

  10. Buying (Going Long) to Profit from an Expected Price Increase Selling

  11. (Going Short) to Profit from an Expected Price Decrease Spreads

  12. Participating in Futures Trading

  13. Deciding How to Participate

  14. Regulation of Futures Trading

  15. Establishing an Account

  16. What to Look for in a Futures Contract

  1. The Contract Unit

  2. How Prices are Quoted

  3. Minimum Price Changes

  4. Daily Price Limits

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  5. Position Limits

  6. Understanding (and Managing) the Risks of Investing In Futures

  7. Choosing a Futures Contract

  8. Liquidity

  9. Timing

  10. Stop Orders

  11. Spreads

  12. Options on Futures Contracts

  13. Buying Call Options

  14. Buying Put Options

  15. How Option Premiums are Determined

  16. Selling Options

  17. In Closing

 

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