Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He ...

Discover how equity derivatives work, their uses in hedging and speculation, and see examples of these financial instruments like options and futures.

Futures and options strategies for the investor may be foreign territory at the beginning of the process, but those strategies come into clearer focus if there’s a plan in mind. Financial advisers are ...

Futures and forex markets are both popular options for investors looking to trade financial assets, but they differ in key ways. Futures involve standardized contracts to buy or sell assets at a set ...

In the securities world, “options” are regulated, exchange-traded instruments. Offered on six U.S. options exchange and on international exchanges, security options give investors the right, but not ...

The Crude Oil futures and options markets are the most liquid and actively traded global commodities contracts in the world. With Weekly Options on WTI Crude Oil Futures expiring on Friday each week, ...

For many individual investors, options and futures are exotic instruments. This is far from the case, once you learn the difference between the two. The truth is that with widespread availability of ...

AT A GLANCE · Six new contracts offer futures market participants access to tools tracking some of the most popular S&P and Nasdaq sector indices, including semiconductors and biotech · New derived ...

Did you know most of our readers prefer to trade futures through Interactive Brokers or Plus500? Futures contracts have traded hands in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) since the late 1800s when ...

Interest rates have been in focus lately, especially the effect of the actions of the US Federal Reserve Board on equity prices. I figured it would be a good time to explain how the Fed Funds futures ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, releases its new IvyDB Futures database with ...