Sentences with phrase «number of derivatives contracts»

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The firm's derivatives strategy team has concocted a trade known as a put spread: Buy a specific number of S&P 500 contracts expiring in February with a strike price of 2,525, while selling the same number of February puts with a strike price of 2,400.

An increasing number of investors have shown an interest in bitcoin, as derivatives exchanges CBOE and CME both gear up to launch bitcoin futures contracts.

Derivatives come in a number of varieties, with futures contracts, forward contracts, options and swaps the most common.

Subtitle E: Additional Market Assurance -(Sec. 351) Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to: (1) require energy derivatives to be traded on a CFTC - regulated exchange unless CFTC issues an exemption; (2) require CFTC to fix limits, with respect to energy transactions, on the aggregate number of positions which may be held by any person for each month across all markets subject to the CFTC's jurisdiction; (3) require CFTC to convene a Position Limit Energy Advisory Group to give CFTC recommendations on such position limits; (4) give CFTC exclusive authority to grant exemptions for bona fide hedging transactions and positions from position limits imposed on energy transactions; (5) revise provisions concerning bona fide hedging transactions; and (6) require CFTC to issue a rule defining and classifying index traders and swap dealers for the purposes of data reporting requirements and setting routine detailed reporting requirements for any position of such entities in contracts traded on designated contract markets, over-the-counter markets, derivatives transaction execution facilities, foreign boards of trade, and electronic trading facilities with respect to significant price discovery contracts.

With regards to the London market, there are a number of platforms for specific product lines (foreign exchanges, swap contracts, equity derivatives, etc.) to facilitate compensation, settlements of trades among market players, and volumes to ensure liquidity.

A growing number of companies are looking to launch ETFs tied to bitcoin derivatives contracts, public records show.