Hedge Funds
March 6th, 2014
A Hedge fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including short selling, leverage, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives. Hedge funds are exempt from many of the rules ...
Future Contracts
March 6th, 2014
A future contract is a legally binding agreement between two parties to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific underlying instrument on a certain date in the future (expiry date) at a price agreed upon when concluding ...
Options
March 6th, 2014
Options on stocks were first traded on an organized exchange in 1973. Since then there has been a dramatic growth in options markets. Options are now traded on many exchanges throughout the world. Huge volumes of options are also ...
Derivatives
March 6th, 2014
Derivatives are financial contracts for which the price is derived from the value of one or more other instruments. These are called underlying(s) of the derivative and they can be equities, bonds, commodities or precious metals, or benchmarks such ...
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