Over-hedging is a risk management strategy that creates a position larger than the original. Learn how it works and view a ...

Non-commercial traders use futures markets for speculation, seeking profits from price changes without direct business ...

Managed futures strategies are seeing increased interest from advisors and investors on the VettaFi sites who are looking to pivot their portfolios in a market environment of continued volatility.

Stock futures play a central role in modern financial markets, offering investors a way to anticipate market direction, manage risk, and express ...

This study investigates the out-of-sample hedging effectiveness and dynamic hedge ratios of floor-traded and E-mini futures with VAR, ECM, bivariate GARCH, Kaiman filter, and Markov regime switching ...

In one of my previous blog posts, we demonstrated that high yield bonds exhibited a strong negative correlation with VIX and an even stronger one with VIX futures, which comes mostly from down markets ...

The slow death of hedge funds is taking down a once-popular derivatives contract with it. That’s one of the theories for why aggregate positions in S&P 500 futures have fallen steadily as a percentage ...

Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures announced a new product called Bitcoin (BTC) Hash Rate Futures that uses the biggest cryptocurrency’s ever-changing mining difficulty as a basis to open ...

When Bitcoin hit its high in December 2017, its total market cap was approximately $420 billion. By contrast when the five stocks in the FAANG plus MSFT hit their highs back in September/October 2018, ...

Hedge funds boosted bullish bets on crude to the most since November in the week before the US capture of Venezuelan ...