Convergence refers to the alignment of a futures contract's price with the underlying cash commodity's spot price as the delivery date nears. Learn how this impacts trading.
Commodities futures are a form of investment that involve buying and selling contracts for the future delivery of commodities such as oil, gold, and agricultural products. Futures trading can be used ...
Discover how options and futures differ in the financial market, focusing on obligations, trading hours, and their roles for investors and institutions.
The US’s top derivatives regulator plans to allow perpetual futures contracts for cryptocurrencies within weeks, bringing onshore a trading instrument that has until now existed almost entirely on ...
On December 21, 2025, the CFTC’s Market Participants Division (“MPD”) issued a no‑action letter that could materially expand hedging options for commercial energy companies by allowing firms to ...
On Nov. 10, 2025, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman, R-AR, and Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, released a bipartisan discussion draft to establish a federal framework for regulating spot ...
Stock futures and options trading reopened fully at 8:30 a.m. ET. Globex futures and options markets, foreign exchange platform EBS markets and BMD markets were all impacted, the Chicago Mercantile ...
Trading has been driven largely by tokenized futures on equities and commodities such as oil, gold and silver.