futures
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Etymology 1
Etymology 2
Shortening of futures contract.
Noun
futures (plural futures)
- Short for futures contract.
- 1955, Leander D. Howell, Price risks for cotton and cotton products and means of reducing them:
- Changes in spread between prices of cotton sheeting and twill and prices of cotton futures were relatively less than those indicated for print cloth.
- 2010, He Huang, Macroeconomic News Effects in Commodity Futures and German Stock and Bond futures markets, →ISBN:
- Our study is the first to investigate the price reaction of two broad commodity futures indices to several US macroeconomic announcements.
- 2011, Joe Duarte, Trading Futures For Dummies, →ISBN, page 281:
- 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.
- 2013, John Hull, Sirimon Treepongkaruna, David Colwell, Fundamentals of Futures and options markets, page 350:
- 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.
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