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 ...

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 ...

You’ve mastered stocks, the building block of most financial markets. You’ve got a pretty good handle on mutual funds and have even started dipping your toes into ETFs and REITs. Now you’re ready to ...

For many individual investors, options and futures are exotic instruments. This is far from the case, once you learn the difference between the two. The truth is that with widespread availability of ...

Convergence is a buzzword these days, except in derivatives. In the futures and options markets, convergence is more than a buzzword. Many exchanges see it as the future, although this has not always ...

The Crude Oil futures and options markets are the most liquid and actively traded global commodities contracts in the world. With Weekly Options on WTI Crude Oil Futures expiring on Friday each week, ...

Paul Houston, Global Head of FX Products, CME Group, recently caught up with Traders Magazine to discuss the drivers causing change in the FX derivatives market, what CME Group has been doing to ...

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 ...

Futures and options have a lot of overlap — they are both leveraged vehicles with big rewards for speculators with good judgment. Is there any difference when trading futures or options in a pandemic ...

You don’t know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out” is credited to Warren Buffett. If he didn’t say it, he should take the credit anyway. Long-time investors, even if they have lived through ...