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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.
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
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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