What Is Futures Day Trading?By Tony Hosea
A quick definition futures day trading is actually pretty simple. Futures day trading is the type of futures trading which opens and closes a futures transaction within a single trading day.
Traders have become attracted to futures day trading for a variety of reasons. Some like the action level […]

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Online Futures Tradings
By Jennifer Bailey
The futures markets are organized and used not only for speculation but also for hedging, which is a method of eliminating risks arising from fluctuations in prices. Hedging may be referred to as the practice of covering the risks attaching to transactions in the cash market by contra-transactions in futures trading. […]

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Futures Options Trading
By Kristy Annely
A forward contract is a customized contract between two parties to buy or sell a specified quantity of a particular commodity at a specified price on a specified future date. Futures are exchange-traded forward contracts, i.e., forward contracts done in organized exchanges like stock or commodity exchanges.
A futures contract is standardized. […]

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Rolling Over Futures Positions
By Umashankar Galla
Futures positions in Indian Markets need be closed on the last Thursday of every month or the expiry month. In case of a holiday on the last Thursday the preceding day would be taken as the closing day.
Current Month Futures being the most active we generally take positions in these. […]

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Futures Market
By Gerry Simoni
Trading
Trading can involve high risk and is not for all traders. Trading futures covers many items, covering such as the currencies, energy, financials, grains, livestock, metals, stock indexes and also housing. Trading the futures does create other trading strategies and opportunities. Trading index futures also enables you to participate in broad market […]

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Trading Futures - 3 Most Commonly Asked Questions Answered
By Mike Singh
What do you mean by trading futures?
A futures contract is a financial contract to buy or sell an underlying instrument at a fixed date in the future, at a specific price. Trading Futures is the buying and selling of futures contracts. Futures contracts can be […]

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Agricultural futures
The most commonly traded agricultural futures traded are Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, Cotton and Orange Juice. We will look at these below
Coffee Futures
Trading Coffee Futures is a risky business. Coffee prices have been very volatile in recent years. As the Coffee price chart below demonstrates. Prices have fluctuated massively. Coffee is priced in cents per […]

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Equity Futures
Equity futures are futures on stock market indicies. The biggest equity markets include the Dow Jones Industrial index, S&P 500 and the FTSE100 in the UK.
Trading Index futures is an ideal way to speculate on price movements of the big indicies without having to physically own the shares. One advantage that makes equity index […]

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