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Futures 101: Common Terminology

  • Agricultural Futures: Products traded on exchanges such as corn, wheat, soybeans, oats, pork bellies, lean hogs, cattle, lumber, and the by-products of these commodities.
  • Basis: The difference between the cash price minus the futures price for a given commodity.
  • Bear Market: A market in which prices are falling.
  • Bull Market: A market in which prices are rising.
  • Call Option: A contract giving the right to buy, but not the obligation, to own the given underlying contract at the strike price for a specified period of time.
  • Futures Contract: A standardized contract between buyer and seller to buy or sell a given amount of a commodity at a set price and date.
  • Hedging: The process of minimizing loss through adverse price movements by either buying or selling futures contracts.
  • Put Options: A contract giving the right to buy, but not the obligation, to sell the given underlying contract at the strike price for a specified period of time.
  • Spreading: The simultaneous buying and selling of contracts to benefit from the change in the price differences between the two contracts.
  • Volatile Market: One that is susceptible to wild price fluctuations.
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