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futures en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (form-of, plural) plural of future
   form of future

futures en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Shortening of futures contract.

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of futures contract.
   alt of futures contract
   • The US Commodity and Futures Commission (CTFC)^([sic – meaning CFTC]) alleges it and its former subsidiary Mondelez Global bought $90m (£61m) of wheat futures but had no intention of taking delivery of it. 2015 April 1, “Kraft accused of wheat price fixing”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 22 May 2015:
   • the raw risk disclosure that managed futures is not a conservative investment. 2010, Mark H. Melin, High-Performance Managed Futures:
   • A Eurodollar futures is a futures contract that at the expiration of the futures contract 1996, Ren-Raw Chen, Understanding and Managing Interest Rate Risks, page 75:
   • If the futures market is normal, an American call futures is worth more than the corresponding American spot call option, while an American put futures is worth less than the corresponding American spot put option. 2013, John Hull, Sirimon Treepongkaruna, David Colwell, Fundamentals of Futures and options markets, page 350:
   • Changes in spread between prices of cotton sheeting and twill and prices of cotton futures were relatively less than those indicated for print cloth. 1955, Leander D. Howell, Price risks for cotton and cotton products and means of reducing them:
   • Our study is the first to investigate the price reaction of two broad commodity futures indices to several US macroeconomic announcements. 2010, He Huang, Macroeconomic News Effects in Commodity Futures and German Stock and Bond futures markets, →ISBN:
   • The percentage of times the American futures call option is priced below the European index call option decreases noticeably when the futures is at a premium to the index. 1986, Review of Research in Futures Markets, volumes 5-6, page 53:
   • On Tuesday cocoa futures in London traded at a record high of £5,827 per tonne. On the same day last year, they traded at £1,968. Prices are rising in part because supply is stretched. 2024 March 2, Susannah Savage, “Why the cost of chocolate will keep rising”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
   • A bond futures is a commitment to deliver or take delivery of a notional bond on a future date or between a range of dates. 2010, Andrew M. Chisholm, Derivatives Demystified:
   • Corn, soybeans, and other agricultural futures are excellent contracts to allow someone else to trade for you, either through a commodity fund that specializes in these markets or an advisor with a good record who knows what he's doing. 2011, Joe Duarte, Trading Futures For Dummies, →ISBN, page 281:

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Deriveds

death futures · nonfutures · perpetual futures · futures market