Definition of Futures contract

1. Noun. An agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date.

Generic synonyms: Derivative, Derivative Instrument
Specialized synonyms: Stock-index Futures

Definition of Futures contract

1. Noun. (finance) a standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity (or financial instrument) of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a price (the futures price). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Futures Contract

future progressive
future progressive tense
future proof
future simple
future tense
future tenses
futureless
futurelessness
futurely
futurepop
futureproof
futureproofed
futureproofing
futureproofs
futures
futures contract (current term)
futures contracts
futures exchange
futures market
futures markets
futureward
futurewards
futureworld
futurise
futurised
futurises
futurising
futurism
futurisms
futurist

Literary usage of Futures contract

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: An Update by Rebecca A. McNerney (1998)
"The seller of a futures contract is said to be in a "short" position, and agrees to make ... If you buy a futures contract (go long) and the price goes up, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"This use of the futures-contract depends on the fairly close accord between the movements in price of different qualities of the same commodity. ..."

3. Pyaments, Clearance, and Settlement: A Guide to the Systems, Risks, and Issues by Nolani T. Traylor, Tamara E. Cross, Nancy Eibeck, Robert Pollard (1998)
"According to market officials, the main function of a futures contract is to shift risks from those less willing or able to bear them to those more willing ..."

4. Understanding Opportunities & Risks in Futures Trading by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Liquidity There can be no ironclad assurance that, at all times, a liquid market will exist for offsetting a futures contract that you have previously ..."

5. Contractual Limitations: Including Trade Strikes and Conspiracies and by Charles Andrew Ray (1892)
"... or in behalf of others, to be delivered to another at a future time, or within a designated period, under any " futures " contract, or agreement ..."

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