Discover how futures contracts can hedge against market risks, protect investments, and stabilize portfolios with effective financial risk management strategies.

For retirees (or soon-to-be retirees), futures contracts can offer an additional avenue for diversification and hedging opportunities, helping to manage market volatility. However, there are a few ...

Retail traders now have a new way to trade derivatives on agricultural commodities. CME Group has produced a suite of "micro" contracts on grain and oilseed futures. Bite-sized options can help ...

This article was written by Jim Wiederhold, Commodity Indices Product Manager at Bloomberg. Although gold is the largest single commodity futures contract, crude oil reaches the 15% single commodity ...

Silver futures trading involves an agreement between a buyer and a seller in which physical silver will be bought by the buyer and delivered by the seller for a fixed price at a date set in the future ...