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A futures contract or a ‘future’ is a legally binding agreement between two parties that one will buy from the other, a specific quantity of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future. Sounds just like a forward contract, so far? However, futures contracts offer certain beneficial features that forwards do not.

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Types of futures

There are 2 types of futures contracts

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Features

Futures contracts offer certain beneficial features that forwards do not. These are:

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Trading in futures

A futures transaction always has two parties, a buyer and a seller.

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Pricing of futures contracts

The theoretical way of pricing any future

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Basis

Basis = Futures price – Spot price

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Futures market participants

Operators in the futures markets can be broadly categorized in the following 3 kinds

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