Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Index futures are futures contracts where the underlying asset is a stock index. These financial derivatives allow investors to buy or sell the future value of a stock index at a predetermined price ...

Options on futures are a kind of contract that gives an investor the right to buy or sell futures at a specific price in a specific period. Options on futures, therefore, layer the "optionality" of ...

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