Options and futures are both contracts to buy and sell either a stock or commodity at a specific price by a specific time. So in the broadest sense, they are similar. But if you look more closely, you ...

Did you know you can make money in the stock market when shares go down, or in commodity markets when prices fall? In other words, the buy-low-sell-high approach can be reversed and still produce a ...

Options and futures are two investment types that can earn you a high return on investment. While options get you a contract with the “right” to buy or sell an asset, futures actually obligate you to ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He ...

The primary difference between a futures contract and a commodity option contract is that a futures contract obligates a trader to buy or sell the underlying commodity. Along with this, commodity ...

Did you know most of our readers prefer to trade futures through Interactive Brokers or Plus500? Futures contracts have traded hands in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) since the late 1800s when ...

We've previously discussed our sources for where we obtain the dividend futures data we use to track what investors expect at different points in time of the future, but we haven't shown how they ...