Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Index futures are futures contracts where the underlying asset is a stock index. These financial derivatives allow investors to buy or sell the future value of a stock index at a predetermined price ...
In its most recent earnings, Nike Inc(NYSE: NKE) management said that "futures orders" were up 12% worldwide year over year, or 17% accounting for currency fluctuations.But what are futures orders, ...