More sophisticated investors can also opt to trade options and futures on the VIX index itself.
Options and futures offer greater leverage to investors, and so greater return potential on a successful trade.
Aron was Semgroup's biggest counterparty, trading both physical oil flowing through pipelines and paper oil, in the form of options and futures.
Options and futures often carry higher commissions than equity trades and investors in futures will be required to maintain a minimum margin.
You see, the credit crunch had almost nothing at all to do with those derivatives, the options and futures, that we value using the Black-Scholes equation.
Last week, UK Finance Minister George Osborne said he opposed a Tobin-style tax on derivatives such as forex contracts, options and futures, unless they were applied globally.
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Indeed, it is possible to find entirely respectable economists (Robert Shiller for example) arguing that it was the lack of options and futures markets in housing that failed to prick the US housing bubble before it blew.
If we know what is inside the ETF, the mixture of gold bars, mining shares, options and futures, (and these things are published) then we can predict how the ETF price is going to move in reaction to that change in the price of gold.
The fund could invest in everything: municipal bonds, equities, preferred stocks, futures, options and options on futures.
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Better regulation would help the market to grow and to introduce new products like options and index futures.
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts ( Click here or definitions).
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts (for definitions, see box, p. 68).
Its algorithmic systems are trading securities in 32 nations, from Europe to South Africa and Asia, while also making huge inroads into the execution of transactions in options, currencies and futures.
Eurex, an on-line system owned by Swiss and German exchanges, has whittled the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange's share of the German bund futures contract from 70% to 10%.
The data is as of June 7 and includes futures and options positions.
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The recent drop in metals prices sent speculators scurrying from bullish gold and silver futures and options traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to U.S. government data.
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The data covers precious and base metals futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Nymex.
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Stocks trade on dozens of exchanges, automatic trading systems, dark pools and crossing networks these days, and trading in futures and options markets affects trading in the cash markets.
Speculative positions in U.S. gold futures and options as measured by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are just off the lowest levels seen since at least 2009 according to one survey of managed-money positions by the agency.
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She also trades options on futures and speaks daily with a broker at Lind-Waldock to discuss strategies.
The cash position gets used for short-term positions in options, futures and complicated swamps and dollar forwards.
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Options, futures and forward contracts could be alternatives for the individual investor to invest directly, but you may consider consulting your investment adviser about purchasing such complex products.
Significantly, the vast expansion in markets for options, futures and derivatives occurred mostly after 1971, with the onset of floating exchange rates, wildly-gyrating interest rates, and swings in commodity prices.
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The data is for the trade date ended Nov. 22 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended Nov. 1 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended Jan. 31 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The data is for the trade date ended March 13 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended July 12 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended Sept. 6 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The data is for the trade week ended Oct. 23 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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