What used to be a one-on-one deal was now a global futures exchange - like the Chicago Board of Trade, for example. Standard futures "contracts" have been defined by various commodity and futures ...

A derivative is a contract that ... one or the other. For example, standardized options are traded on public exchanges, while custom options are traded over the counter. Futures, which are ...

Other types of derivative contracts include futures, forward, and swaps. Essentially, options contracts allow traders to bet on (and ideally, profit off of) the future price movements of stocks ...

Singapore’s largest exchange group intends to launch the contracts in the ... Japan Exchange Group Inc., for example, offers investors “rolling-spot” gold futures, giving them exposure ...