Futures contracts offer investors a way to get exposure to changing prices of commodities without having to take physical possession.
An important advantage to trading in gold futures is the fact that because they are traded at centralized exchanges,
futures contracts offer more financial leverage, flexibility, and financial integrity as opposed to physically trading this precious metal.
That's been the dominant paradigm for SEC filings, including the ones recently pulled, due to the recent uptick in bitcoin
futures contracts offered by major U.S. exchanges and securities firms.
On Wednesday, E * TRADE announced that customers with margin brokerage accounts can now trade bitcoin
futures contracts offered by the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
The futures contract offers a longer historical precedent as the ETF has existed for only eight years.
Would you like to see different
futures contracts offered?
The largest futures exchange in the U.S., the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was formed in the late 1890s when the only
futures contracts offered were for agricultural products.
The bitcoin
futures contracts offered by CME and Cboe are cash settled, and do not deliver bitcoin to the contract's owners.
Goldman Sachs is the first to venture into the cryptocurrency market by immediately clearing Bitcoin
future contracts offered by CBOE and CME.
Not exact matches
«Wall Street has just started to dip their toes in,» says Tyler Winklevoss, CEO and cofounder of Gemini, whose cryptocurrency exchange partnered with a more traditional one, CBOE, on Bitcoin
futures contracts in December,
offering institutional giants a way to participate.
The
futures offered by Cboe Global Markets Inc., and similar
contracts that start trading in a week at at another Chicago - based exchange, CME Group Inc., may open the door to greater inflows of institutional money, while also making it easier to bet on bitcoin's decline.
The two exchanges on Dec. 1 got permission to
offer the
contracts after pledging to the U.S. Commodity
Futures Trading Commission that the products don't run afoul of the law, in a process called self - certification.
An example of a popular relative strategy involves buying and / or selling the BAX
contract while simultaneously selling and / or buying its U.S. proxy, the Eurodollar
contract (both short term interest rate
future contracts), which in turn is underlying the 3 - month U.S. dollar London Interbank
Offered Rate (LIBOR).
In 2012, the CFTC sued Intrade for
offering futures and options
contracts on an unregulated exchange, which forced it to stop serving U.S. customers.
Indeed, several exchanges, including Chicago's CME Group, have announced plans to
offer Bitcoin
futures contracts.
Managed
futures funds, which buy and sell
futures contracts, could also
offer compelling opportunities.
However, the bank has now confirmed that it will begin
offering its clients a type of
futures contract called a non-deliverable forward that will be linked to bitcoin — an asset which Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein called a «vehicle to perpetrate fraud» last November.
The CBOE
offered futures contracts in mid-December which was followed roughly one week later with
futures on the CME, the world's largest
futures exchange.
Complimentary to existing live data subscriptions on
Futures Exchanges, Saxo Bank
offers streaming
Contract Options prices on the same exchanges free of charge.
Goldman Sachs is planning to launch a new cryptocurrency market on Wall Street by
offering bitcoin
futures contracts, a move that could strengthen institutional adoption of digital assets.
ICE
Futures Singapore offers cross-currency futures contracts, including the Mini U.S Dollar Index ® and a range of Asian currency
Futures Singapore
offers cross-currency
futures contracts, including the Mini U.S Dollar Index ® and a range of Asian currency
futures contracts, including the Mini U.S Dollar Index ® and a range of Asian currency pairs.
Mini
Contracts: NYMEX does offer e-mini natural gas futures contracts that enable you to trade smaller amounts of natural gas with lower margin requ
Contracts: NYMEX does
offer e-mini natural gas
futures contracts that enable you to trade smaller amounts of natural gas with lower margin requ
contracts that enable you to trade smaller amounts of natural gas with lower margin requirements.
While Ethereum is currently available — since the second - largest cryptocurrency by market cap is already traded on Gemini — Cboe needs Gemini to add more coins if it wants to
offer additional
futures contracts.
My opinion in this blog are for general information use only and are not intended as an
offer or solicitation with respect to the purchase or sale of any
futures or option
contracts.
Cboe is based out of Chicago and is interested in
offering futures contracts on additional cryptocurrencies.
Although Trading Technologies customers already have access to bitcoin
futures, the new setup may allow for arbitrage between the
contracts offered by CBOE and CME Group, according to Bloomberg.
CBOE Holdings is now
offering Extended Trading Hours (ETH) on key popular index
futures and options
contracts in order to provide investors with the ability to take advantage of market opportunities as they happen, and to manage portfolios and volatility throughout more trading hours around the clock.
As an example, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced they will be
offering bitcoin
futures contracts by the beginning of 2018.
If you fall into the former category then in all candor your best play is probably to sell short crude oil
futures contracts as they
offer the most direct play on a bearish scenario for crude oil.
Investors should be aware that depending upon whether or not such products constitute «
futures contracts» or «securities» under the SFO, it may be illegal for such exchanges to
offer these services without an appropriate licence or authorisation from the SFC.. In some cases, these exchanges may operate entirely outside the SFC's jurisdiction.
Some unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges are
offering cryptocurrency
futures contracts and other cryptocurrency - related investment products to investors in Hong Kong.
ICE
offers a number of dry and wet freight
futures contracts that cover major shipping routes around the world.
It currently
offers futures and options contracts on coal, crude oil, refined products, electricity, emissions, liquified natural gas, natural gas, natural gas liquids and petrochemicals offered on its ICE Futures US, ICE Futures Europe, ICE Futures Singapore, ICE OTC platform, ICE Endex and Trayport m
futures and options
contracts on coal, crude oil, refined products, electricity, emissions, liquified natural gas, natural gas, natural gas liquids and petrochemicals
offered on its ICE
Futures US, ICE Futures Europe, ICE Futures Singapore, ICE OTC platform, ICE Endex and Trayport m
Futures US, ICE
Futures Europe, ICE Futures Singapore, ICE OTC platform, ICE Endex and Trayport m
Futures Europe, ICE
Futures Singapore, ICE OTC platform, ICE Endex and Trayport m
Futures Singapore, ICE OTC platform, ICE Endex and Trayport markets.
ICE
offers equity index and single stock
futures including
contracts on FTSE indexes, MSCI indexes, Russell Indexes, single stock
futures and options and ICE Block
contracts.
With widespread investor interest, comes widespread broker and institutional interest: CME recently announced they are going to start
offering a Bitcoin
futures contract before the end of 2017 and lots of forex and CFD brokers have started
offering BTCUSD
contracts too.
We believe the provincial securities regulators in Canada would be as equally inquisitive and systematic as the SEC has reportedly been in its recent analysis of Simple Agreement for
Future Tokens (SAFT)
contract based coin and token
offerings.
Core ETFs have long been a major component of the ETF growth story, but recent flows suggest the popularity of these generally low cost funds
offering broad - based exposure to specific markets and sectors may be stronger than ever with investors, including institutions who may increasingly be using them as an alternative to more expensive
futures contracts.
Cboe Global Markets Inc. is exploring
futures on other cryptocurrencies after becoming the first U.S. exchange to
offer Bitcoin
contracts last month.
Cboe started
offering the first
future contracts for bitcoin on Sunday, and CME is soon to follow.
However, that doesn't appear to be enough to fully convince Arsenal to push ahead with
contract talks and secure his long - term
future, as The Mirror claim that the club aren't willing to change their
offer of a renewal which involves a pay - cut.
The German international has reiterated his stance that he wants to stay with the club, but is yet to sign a new
contract, and Arsenal shareholder Morgan is now claiming he is not so sure about his
future, and that he has «discreet»
offers to join Bayern or Barca.
Jack Wilshere has been urged to consider his
future at Arsenal, with Paul Merson claiming he should reject his current
contract offer.
AC Milan have reportedly put in place a deadline for Gianluigi Donnarumma to respond to their latest
contract offer as question marks remain over his
future.
The Daily Mirror state that Akpom's
contract will be the biggest Arsenal have ever
offered to a player of the striker's age — despite him having yet to score a goal at senior level — as the club are so keen to show faith in a player they believe has a great
future ahead of him.
Joe Gibbs sold James Stewart on joining his JGRMX team last October by showing a personal interest, convincing him the technology from his Sprint Cup operation could be used to build a better motorcycle than the competition and
offering a five - year
contract with the opportunity to move into a NASCAR program in the
future.
Arsenal to
offer lucrative
contract to Ramsey, who's key to Wenger's
future plans.
The Polish striker on the other hand is claimed to have baulked at the
offer of a new
contract by his current club Bayern Munich, and could well be looking to move clubs in the near
future.
The 20 - year - old, also reported to be a transfer target for big names such as Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City, is considering his
future at Anfield after rejecting a big - money
contract offer from the Reds in recent times.
After John Terry made it clear that Chelsea were not going to
offer him a new
contract once his current deal expires, it was only matter of time before his own teammates started wishing him the best his
future.
Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini has provided a worrying update on his
future, admitting he's not accepted a
contract offer from the Red Devils.