Futures
contracts trade on exchanges, similar to stocks and bonds, and don't require storage like a physical commodity does.
In the past, these particular
contracts traded at a discount to fair value somewhere around 20 basis points, meaning institutions were actually being paid for buying them.
Volume is the number of shares or
contracts traded in a security or an entire market during a given period of time.
The overall level of trading activity, measured by the number
of contracts traded on exchanges, was roughly the same as the year before.
In the past, these
particular contracts traded at a discount to fair value somewhere around 20 basis points, meaning institutions were actually being paid for buying them.
Spread trading is the simultaneous buying and selling of multiple contracts, therefore commission costs may be higher for spread trades than for
single contract trades.
The company was one of the first to target high - volume options traders with low, per -
contract trading fees.
Like tiered equity trades, per contract fees tier down as
total contracts traded increases (10,000 per month is the first threshold).
The company said there were over 800
contract trades in the first 2 hours of the futures marketplace launch.
A futures exchange, traditionally, is a term referring to a central marketplace where futures contracts and options on
futures contracts trade.
The term «commodity trading futures» addressed the mix of
contracts traded on the present day exchanges, all of which are also traded electronically.
Implied Volatility represents the actual above - market premium an option
contract trades for at any point in time, but it changes in mysterious ways.
And as the largest oil importer in the world, there is a great deal of logic in having
oil contracts trade in yuan.
The futures
contract trades close to its short - term downward trend line, as the 15 - minute chart shows:
Thaddeus «Tadge» Dryja — the CTO of
smart contract trading platform Mirror — and Joseph Poon wrote a white paper titled «The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off - Chain Instant Payments,» first published in February of that year.
On little news today, the May 21 and 22.5 calls are particularly active, with the 22.5 strike calls seeing 21,000
contracts trading hands.
With the equity markets and crude oil pummeled (as deflationary risks rise again), the January 2016
contract trading volume shot to new highs.
The start of the
new contract trading was successful, attracting interest from institutional and retail investors, and major commodity trading houses Glencore and Trafigura.
CME's
contracts traded about $ 6 Million in volume since opening last night, and CBOE traded about $ 4.6 Million.
Agricultural
contracts traded include: US and UK - based softs contracts: ICE U.S. Coffee «C» Arabica, which is the world's largest coffee futures contract, Robusta Coffee, Cotton No. 2, World Cotton, Cocoa,, Frozen Concentrated Orange juice, ICE Sugar No. 11, ICE Sugar No. 16 and White Sugar.
These «stars» include:
January contract trading expiration, February options contact expiration, an «overbought» technical condition and the upcoming FOMC meeting and employment report next week.
For example; the June 1993
Canola contract traded at a substantial premium to the November, 1993 contract up until May 1993.
The E-mini
S&P contracts trade on different exchanges than stocks, and trading works differently than for stocks.
Although contract trading began with traditional commodities such as grains, meat and livestock, exchange trading has expanded to include metals, energy, currency and currency indexes, equities and equity indexes, government interest rates and private interest rates.
As mentioned earlier, in terms of the sheer number of
derivatives contracts traded, the CME group leads the pack with 3.16 billion contracts in total for 2013.
With 5,000 binary option
contracts traded daily based on multiple asset classes, Nadex designed software specifically to meet the needs of our members.
With 5000 hourly, daily and
weekly contracts traded 6 days a week, 23 hours a day, Nadex traders get an ongoing series of short - term trading opportunities.
The North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) has just reported the volume of binary options and
spread contracts traded on the exchange in the third quarter of 2015.