The seller of the put might protect his position by selling a futures contract.
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There is talk in Antwerp of giving the market more transparency and liquidity via a futures contract.
These swaps are based on the average of the daily settlements of the copper-futures contract for the month.
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Margins are being increased by 19% on Comex 100-troy ounce gold futures contract.
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In February this year, we also launched the black pepper future, which was the first futures contract for the commodity.
Because speculators had greater faith in an oil futures contract than they did in the value of a U.S. dollar.
The daily chart of the T-note 10-year futures contract shows that they have gapped higher in early trading on Thursday.
This money, called the margin, is roughly 4.5% of the value of the futures contract on which the option is written.
The 10-year futures contract expiring September rose to its highest price yet to trade at 126-13 lowering the yield to 2.75%.
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It is a founding member of ERIS, which has developed a futures contract that mimics a variable Libor-based interest rate swap.
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Options on futures are an alternative to buying a futures contract outright.
But, he said, those looking to buy beef should think about getting long the summer futures contract months, rather than the nearby contracts.
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These give the owner of the option the right to buy the futures contract within a certain time frame at a preset price.
Chart Analysis : The weekly chart of the December crude oil futures contract shows that it formed lower lows, line b, last week.
"The fact that someone bought a futures contract (which means that someone else sold one) doesn't reduce the amount of oil available to consume, " Krugman wrote.
At that time the implied three-month yield stood at 2.05% and represents a retrospective step to January when the futures contract last traded at that price.
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An alternative would be to establish a position in one platinum contract with an offset in a miNY gold futures contract that also is 50 ounces.
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The federal-funds futures contract is also betting that the central bank will not be able to ease much further, despite Mr Greenspan's hints to the contrary.
Overnight action saw the December Comex gold futures contract push through short-term resistance from the 20-day moving average, which is a minor near term bullish technical signal.
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Two years ago, the Chicago Board of Trade introduced an electronic gold futures contract and has parlayed it into a 19% share of the trading in gold futures.
An option on a futures contract is the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying security at a particular price within a specific time.
To buy a futures contract you do not need to buy or sell actual food and so financial players entered the market to make money from these contracts.
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In the space of two weeks the December bill futures contract has shifted from implying a three-month yield of 1.50% to discounting a cut from the 1.00% policy-rate to 0.78%.
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In a recent Charts in Play column, I reviewed the monthly OBV analysis on the gold futures contract as it has been making new highs with prices since 2002.
Eurex, an on-line system owned by Swiss and German exchanges, has whittled the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange's share of the German bund futures contract from 70% to 10%.
The September Nikkei futures contract dropped by almost 10%.
The USDX futures contract is designed to replicate the performance of being short the US Dollar against the following currencies: Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc.
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Anyone hold a futures contract does not have to wait for the contract to be completed if they choose not to, having bought a contract one day, they can sell it the next.
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