Futures and options strategies for the investor may be foreign territory at the beginning of the process, but those strategies come into clearer focus if there’s a plan in mind. Financial advisers are ...

Options and futures are two investment types that can earn you a high return on investment. While options get you a contract with the “right” to buy or sell an asset, futures actually obligate you to ...

Futures and options both give traders leveraged exposure to underlying assets. You can use these contracts to get exposure to stocks, commodities, and other assets. Since these derivatives are similar ...

In the securities world, “options” are regulated, exchange-traded instruments. Offered on six U.S. options exchange and on international exchanges, security options give investors the right, but not ...

For many individual investors, options and futures are exotic instruments. This is far from the case, once you learn the difference between the two. The truth is that with widespread availability of ...

Discover how hedging strategies help investors manage risk and protect investments from market fluctuations with practical ...

The Crude Oil futures and options markets are the most liquid and actively traded global commodities contracts in the world. With Weekly Options on WTI Crude Oil Futures expiring on Friday each week, ...

Paul Houston, Global Head of FX Products, CME Group, recently caught up with Traders Magazine to discuss the drivers causing change in the FX derivatives market, what CME Group has been doing to ...

AT A GLANCE · Six new contracts offer futures market participants access to tools tracking some of the most popular S&P and Nasdaq sector indices, including semiconductors and biotech · New derived ...

Volatility-specifically, perceived volatility-is an important factor in determining the price of options. An index that tracks changes in volatility was created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange ...

New CFTC-regulated options on futures will physically settle into front-month Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) Futures Designed to offer market participants the ability to more granularly manage volatility ...