Learn about futures trading, along with how contracts work, key market factors, risks, and potential benefits, and how investors use futures to hedge or speculate.

CME makes short positions more expensive as prices rise, signaling heightened stress risk in precious metals markets.

Here’s all you need to know about new margin requirements.

Wall Street doesn’t own the futures market anymore. For years, futures trading was the exclusive playground of Wall Street; institutions with deep pockets, complex strategies, and servers located ...

E-Minis are small-sized futures contracts designed for diverse investments. Discover their definition, trading advantages, and how they fit into your financial strategy.

Binance Futures is launching silver perpetual futures on Jan. 7 to offer up to 50x leverage in an expansion move beyond crypto trading.

In 2014, the Joint Audit Committee issued a Regulatory Alert insisting that futures commission merchant (FCM) clearing members treat separate accounts of the same beneficial owner as a single account ...

WESTLAKE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles Schwab, a leader in retail investing and trading, today announced the launch of futures and forex trading, as well as portfolio margin, on its thinkorswim ...

CME Group will change the way it sets margins for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures after a surge in prices and volatile trading.

Silver futures are contracts for buying/selling silver at a future date. Investing in silver can be via physical forms, stocks, ETFs, or futures. Silver futures offer potential high returns but carry ...

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Since Aug. 1, Class IV milk futures fell nearly $5 per hundredweight (cwt.) from an average of $19.40 to $14.80 per cwt. for ...