The above-mentioned funds are tied to futures contracts and therefore suffer from this eroding effect.
Nasdaq would use Liffe's computer system - called Connect - to trade the futures contracts electronically.
The Arizona-based exchange will have futures contracts that are based on domestic box office receipts.
Yesterday, Tradesports bettors bought futures contracts giving Republicans a 75% chance of retaining the Senate.
Such objectives are achieved through the use swaps, futures contracts and other derivative instruments.
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In the case of VIX, these ETNs hold a collection of rolling VIX futures contracts.
Perhaps the clearest indicator of what the markets think is the price of federal-funds futures contracts.
In fact, until recently, oil for immediate delivery was more expensive than futures contracts.
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Fewer than 700, 000 short-term interest-rate futures contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange just six years ago.
Investors should also be aware of different tax treatment on gains and losses, particularly for futures contracts.
LME's futures contracts will enable companies to lock in plastics prices as much as 15 months ahead.
Per their prospectuses, they must purchase the commodities, and for these funds, this means buying the futures contracts.
It was a boisterous place where traders signaled, shouted and elbowed their way to buy and sell futures contracts.
" Ms. Lambert describes Richard Sandor, a Berkeley economist who turned to devising futures contracts, as a "fancy intellectual.
The Index is a rules-based index composed solely of short USDX futures contracts.
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Somebody taking a longer-term view would use deferred futures contracts rather than nearby.
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It also tried to sell futures contracts on the Nikkei 225 stockmarket average.
The result has been drops in prices for futures contracts, some quite large, silver for example, while other less so.
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Commodities are generally traded using futures contracts that help professionals, farmers and big companies lock in prices for different assets.
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Some control procedures appear to have been predictable, being timed to take place shortly before the settlement date of futures contracts.
Also, ETFs can easily be arbitraged against futures contracts, thus making the pricing of both stocks and futures contracts more efficient.
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Oil trading consultant Lipow suspects that to lose so much money Semgroup must have ventured beyond mere futures contracts into options.
And judging by the price of futures contracts based on the Case-Shiller composite index, investors expect house prices to fall further.
One of the best ways to trade copper prices besides futures contracts is the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub-Index Total Return ETN ( JJC).
The life insurance company utilizes all different methods of providing for the guarantees, such as portfolio insurance, derivatives, futures contracts, options, etc.
Since it is not practical to have a physically-backed crude oil fund, existing products rely on futures contracts to implement their strategies.
This makes it difficult for sellers and buyers to settle futures contracts by physical delivery of the commodity rather than by cash.
To limit the risk, Dalio wrote that jewellers should purchase gold-futures contracts designed to rise in value when the price of gold falls.
It seems unlikely that such a small tail could wag such a large dog, especially given that investors almost exclusively trade futures contracts.
These types of managers use super liquid futures contracts to play everything from soy beans to natural gas, and from copper to sovereign debt.
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