futures options

In many cases, options are traded on futures, sometimes called simply "futures options".

The expiration of December Treasury bond futures options yesterday had little effect on the cash market, analysts said.

Today, there are more than 90 futures and futures options exchanges worldwide trading to include:

The group, which now has 750 employees, is a primary dealer of Government securities in New York and is a leading market maker in futures options.

A special background section covering stocks, stock options, futures and futures options, all leading to trading the fascinating E-mini futures contract.

Two investors in commodity futures options, accusing two brokerages of fraudulent sales ploys, filed class-action suits today for $800 million in losses and damages.

Oldfield, George S.; Jarrow, Robert A. (1988) "Forward Options and Futures Options".

Sherrick, Irwin and Forster (1992) used the prices of S&P500 futures options to compute the implied volatility of the price of S&P500 futures.

It's leverage on leverage, and if you know the way the market is going - which our boy Saddam does - oil futures options are like a license to print money, because with every dollar you can make 10.

Representative Markey's market reform bill has been given little chance of passage this year, partly because of a disputed provision that would give the S.E.C. jurisdiction over stock index futures contracts and futures options.

They had the key equation that now drives hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars of annual trading volume in stock options, futures options, mortgages, over-the-counter currency options, and most of the derivatives industry.

The Chicago Merc has been granted the right to trade futures contracts on the Nikkei index while the Chicago Board of Trade has the right to trade Nikkei futures options.

Leo Melamed, chairman of the mercantile exchange's executive committee, told a news conference in London, "Our partnership with Reuters ushers in a new era of futures and futures options, whereby the 24-hour trading day is realized."

The agreement, approved last month by the exchanges' boards, will give full members of the nation's largest futures exchange and the largest options exchange complete access to all futures, futures options, securities and securities options introduced by either exchange.

A few intermediaries offer this facility on a limited basis but forward foreign exchange markets and the currency futures options market are designed for big players and the smaller customer would neither be welcomed, nor would he, or she, easily know how to gain access to these markets.

Sophisticated Portfolio Mr. Perot has the portfolio of a rich man who has put most of his money into tax-free bonds but who is also not unfamiliar with the most sophisticated commodities, including foreign currency futures options and stock futures, both here and abroad.

Partly due to Zimmerman's "unusual speed" making financial calculations in his head, he was hired to work for the Singer-Wenger at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; He was first assigned to the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Price Index futures pit and then the live cattle futures options.