Futures Contracts means standardized contracts entered into on domestic or foreign exchanges which call for the future delivery of specified quantities of various assets such as stocks, bonds, agricultural commodities, industrial commodities, currencies, financial instruments, energy products or metals at a specified time and place. The terms and conditions of futures contracts of a particular commodity are standardized and as such, are not subject to any negotiation between the buyer and seller. The contractual obligations, depending upon whether one is a buyer or a seller, may be satisfied either by taking or making, as the case may be, physical delivery of an approved grade of commodity or by making an offsetting sale or purchase of an equivalent but opposite futures contract on the same exchange prior to the designated date of delivery. The difference between the price at which the futures contract is sold or purchased and the price paid for brokerage commissions, constitutes the profit or loss to the trader. In market terminology, a trader who purchases a futures contract is “long” in the market and a trader who sells a futures contract is “short” in the market. Before a trader closes out his or her long or short position by an offsetting sale or purchase, his or her outstanding contracts are known as “open trades” or “open positions”. The aggregate amount of open long or short positions held by traders in a particular contract is referred to as the “open interest” in such contract;
Futures Contracts contracts for making or taking delivery of Eligible Commodities that are traded on a market-recognized commodity exchange, which such contracts meet the specification and delivery requirements of futures contracts on such commodity exchange.
Futures Contracts means: (1) all instruments: (A) the trading of which is within the jurisdiction of CFTC (assuming for this purpose that the instruments were traded in the United States regardless of where they are actually traded), (B) which are regulated by the CFTC as futures contracts (assuming for this purpose that such instruments were traded in the United States regardless of where they are actually traded), and (C) which any CME Entity has the authority to trade under its articles, by‑laws, and rules; and (2) those instruments which, as of September 24, 1997, meet all of the requirements specified in clause (1) of this Subsection (w) but subsequent to September 24, 1997 fail to meet the requirements of clause (1)(A) of this Subsection (r) solely because another U.S. regulatory authority (in addition to, or in substitution of, the CFTC) is given regulatory jurisdiction over such instruments.
Examples of Futures Contracts in a sentence
In the case of indices not relating to shares, Currency Exchange Rates, Commodities, and Futures Contracts as Underlying, the Dividend Effect always corresponds to zero.
Thus, as a general matter, any Investment Transaction in publicly-traded Securities or Publicly-Traded Futures Contracts by members of your Immediate Family will need to be made through a registered broker-dealer or futures commission merchant.
Similarly, you may roll over 10 September Fed Funds Futures Contracts by selling those 10 contracts and purchasing 10 October Fed Funds Futures Contracts since the contracts being sold and those being purchased have different expiration months.
More than 50 Publicly-Traded Futures Contracts per calendar month to acquire Fixed Income Securities issued by a particular Qualified Foreign Government.
On the other hand, you could not purchase 10 January Fed Funds Future Contracts if the open interest for those contracts was less than 1,000 contracts, even if the total open interest for all Fed Funds Futures Contracts was greater than 1,000 contracts.
More Definitions of Futures Contracts
Futures Contracts means contracts (including contracts which are not traded on-exchange and which are not readily realisable investments) on and for physical commodities, currencies, mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments, obligations of and guaranteed by the governments of sovereign nations, and any other financial instruments, securities, stock, financial, and economic indices, and items which are now, or may hereafter be, the subject of futures contract trading, futures contracts, options on futures contracts and physical commodities, cash and forward contracts, foreign exchange commitments, deferred delivery contracts, leverage contracts, and other commodity related contracts, agreements and transactions (including contingent liability transactions), and ‘Futures Contract’ shall be construed accordingly.
Futures Contracts a futures contract is a contract between two parties where both parties agree to buy and sell a particular asset of specific quantity, at apredetermined price and at a specified date in future. Note that all contracts on our Trading Platform are for “Contracts for Difference”(CFD’s) which are cash settled. The "Sell" And "Buy" rates of CFDs offered on our Trading Platform are derived from the price of the futures contract.
Futures Contracts means a contract executed on any commodity ,futures or options Exchange or any over the counter Transaction in connection with any such Futures Contract, the effect of which is that: 「期貨合約」指在任何商品、期貨或期權交易所訂立的合約，或者與此類期貨合約相關的場外交易，並按以下情況視為有效：
Futures Contracts means any futures contract which is traded on any Futures Exchanges.
Futures Contracts means any exchange-traded derivatives contract under which (a) one party agrees to transfer title to an underlying thing, or a specified quantity of an underlying thing, to another party at a specified future time and at a specified price payable at that future time; or (b) the parties will discharge their obligations under the contract by settling the difference between the value of a specified quantity of an underlying thing agreed at the time of the making of the contract and at a specified future time.
Futures Contracts shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.4.
Futures Contracts means all instruments: (i) the listing and/or trading of which is within (or would have been within, with respect to new product formats) the exclusive regulatory jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) as of the Effective Date (assuming for this purpose that the instruments were traded in the United States regardless of where they actually are traded); (ii) that are (or would have been) regulated by the CFTC as futures contracts as of the Effective Date (assuming for this purpose that the instruments were traded in the United States regardless of where they actually are traded); and (iii) that CME has or will have the authority under its articles, by-laws, and rules to list and/or trade. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties agree that “Futures Contracts” as used in this Agreement shall not include (x) unlisted or unregistered instruments or (y) underwritten or privately placed instruments.