EditWhat is Futures Trading
In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to exchange a specified asset of standardized quantity and quality for a price agreed today (the futures price or the strike price) with delivery occurring at a specified future date, the delivery date. The contracts are traded on a futures exchange. The party agreeing to buy the underlying asset in the future, the "buyer" of the contract, is said to be "long", and the party agreeing to sell the asset in the future, the "seller" of the contract, is said to be "short".
When most people think of futures trading, two things come to mind: extraordinary financial risk, and very rich people. Those two things often go hand in hand, but nowhere is that the case more so than in the world of futures trading. Futures are contracts for the delivery of specified amounts of a certain commodity, on a certain date in the future. Many of the commodities involved in futures trading are agricultural, such as wheat, pork bellies, and orange juice concentrate. However, futures contracts for many other “commodities” such as precious metals, currencies, and even interest rates, are also traded and exchanged.
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